Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

FRIENDS OF ALBELLA BOYS HOME, DARJEELING 

FABHD helps finance and support the children and local staff at Albella Boys Home in Kalimpong, Darjeeling District. Within a Christian ethos, Albella exists to help the poor and orphaned, by giving its residents a free home, education, and health facilities, and its non-resident boys and girls a free education.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/23£46£42£5n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/07/22£43£40£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/07/21£49£24£25n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/07/20£49£51£-2n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/07/19£55£86£-30n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/07/18£84£56£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/17£53£52£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/16£49£45£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/07/15£58£54£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years
Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for young people
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, India,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 7 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/02/2014, number: 1155956
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

8 Westbury Avenue
Fleet
GU51 3HP

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND HARDSHIP AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE DARJEELING DISTRICT OF INDIA, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS TOWARDS THE COSTS OF ALBELLA BOYS HOME, KALIMPONG, AND ITS STAFF, AND THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS NOT RESIDENT IN THE HOME ALL WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS .

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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