Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • but now stabilising: +1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

    ROYAL BRITISH LEGION SCOTLAND (ABOYNE BRANCH)

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period but has stabilised more recently
    • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/10/17 31/10/18 31/10/19 31/10/20 31/10/21 31/10/22 31/10/23
    Total income £2,258 £10,376 £4,822 £2,369 £4,185 £3,400 £1,210
    Total spending £2,884 £3,497 £5,255 £1,784 £3,043 £2,851 £1,871
    Surplus/deficit -£626 £6,879 -£433 £585 £1,142 £549 -£661
    Established: 25 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    GiG Classification
    • Social clubs and similar
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of public participation in sport','the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
    Where it operates
    • City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • Other defined groups

    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 25/02/2000, number: SC029849
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    The Pines , Low Road, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, AB34 5GW

    Objectives

    The charitable purposes of RBLS are: - 4.1.1 The prevention or relief of poverty amongst men or women who have at any time honourably served with any branch of the naval, military and air forces of the Crown (whether Regular or Reserve). Royal Observer Corps and members of HM Coastguard. the Merchant Navy. the Forces of Allied Nations. the Women’s Land Army. the Women’s Timber Corps. Bevin Boys, members of the War Widows Association or Adult Cadet Instructors and their spouses, partners and dependants, hereinafter referred to as “ex-Service men and women”. 4.1.2 The advancement of citizenship and community development by the encouragement of co-operation between ex-Service men and women and others supporting the objects of RBLS through the establishment of Branches, by promoting and encouraging volunteering and the principle of service to others and by perpetuating and honouring the memory of those who died in the service of their country through the education of the public and through acts of remembrance. 4.1.3 The relief of ex-Service men and women in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. 4.1.4 The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science by the promotion of music, including the music of pipe bands and military bands and the encouragement of participation in music by young people. by preserving war memorials and by promoting and parading ceremonial colours as a tribute to those ex-Service men and women who have died in the service of their country and as a symbol of belief in our common culture. 4.1.5 The advancement of public participation in sport. 4.1.6 The provision of recreational facilities and the organisation of recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for ex-service men and women in particular and for members of the public generally. and 4.1.7 Any other purposes that reasonably may be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator

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