Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • but now stabilising: +1
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

    BANKIE TALKING NEWSPAPER GROUP

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period but has stabilised more recently
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23 31/03/24
    Total income £5,827 £7,240 £5,020 £230 £5,580 £8,389 £7,525
    Total spending £5,802 £7,527 £4,608 £3,466 £5,619 £2,832 £3,564
    Surplus/deficit £25 -£287 £412 -£3,236 -£39 £5,557 £3,961
    Established: 35 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Performing and visual arts
    Purposes
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: West Dunbartonshire
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems','People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

    Who supports them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/08/1989, number: SC016686
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; AR20: 156 days late,
    Main office

    Unit 13, Clyde Business Centre, 31 Clyde Street, Clydebank, Glasgow, G81 1PF

    Objectives

    The object of the Talking Newspaper is to relieve blind, partially sighted or those people labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which make reading a strain, by this provision or recorded tapes, cds or mp3 downloads. In furtherance of this object, the Talking Newspaper through its Committee shall have the following powers only:

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator

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