Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 6

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 0

WEVOLUTION

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Financial issues to consider:

Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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	£495,874	£533,899	£615,075	£433,318	£201,032	£61,313	£176,380
Total spending	£418,202	£452,258	£485,549	£382,810	£297,068	£237,284	£261,573
Surplus/deficit	£77,672	£81,641	£129,526	£50,508	-£96,036	-£175,971	-£85,193

Established: 12 years

www.wevolution.org.uk

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Other welfare services

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty
The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Where it operates

Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City

Who it helps

Other defined groups
No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Women's Fund for Scotland - Women Reclaiming Power in Small Powerful Groups
£5,000	27/02/2023	To contribute to staffing, training and participation events for 5 new groups being established in the Inverclyde area to support women to become more enterprising.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WEvolution
£35,134	28/04/2020 6	towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WEvolution
£149,999	24/07/2019 36	Towards core costs associated with overseeing the transition to a new partnership model of SRG expansion.
Nesta - AC00897
£30,000	21/03/2019 12	Lab General programme grant to WEvolution Grant Ref AC00897
National Lottery Community Fund - Scaling SRGs: Growing the Movement
£311,975	13/07/2018 36	WEvolution envisions a world where people in the UK's least understood communities, especially women, take control of their lives. The long-term vision is of a self-reliant group (SRG) movement that grows to a critical mass where it generates its ....more WEvolution envisions a world where people in the UK's least understood communities, especially women, take control of their lives. The long-term vision is of a self-reliant group (SRG) movement that grows to a critical mass where it generates its own momentum and investment. The funding will go towards creating a more structured strategic partnership programme (working closely alongside organisations) to develop this movement over the next three years.
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing the Self-Reliant Group (SRG) Movement in Scotland
£450,000	12/04/2017 36	This groups projects aims to grow 75 new Self-Reliant Groups (SRGs) in Scotland involving over 375 people in Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Dundee. They will also partner and mentor 10 organisations to establish a further 30 SRGs involving ....more This groups projects aims to grow 75 new Self-Reliant Groups (SRGs) in Scotland involving over 375 people in Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Dundee. They will also partner and mentor 10 organisations to establish a further 30 SRGs involving 150 people. The proposal will enable the organisation to fund staff who will be responsible for up scaling the movement to reach more individuals and organisations.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Economics of Friendships
£5,000	25/01/2017 12	The Economics of Friendships
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to WEvolution
£180,013	19/04/2016 36	Towards the salary of the managing director to build the self-reliant groups movement in Scotland where people come together to save money and create products or services that bring value to them, their families and local communities.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 08/05/2013, number: SC043994

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

58 Queen Mary Avenue, Glasgow, G42 8DT

Objectives

The SCIO's purposes are: 4.1 To advance citizenship and community development. 4.2 To prevent and/or relieve poverty. 4.3 To advance education and training. and 4.4 To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. through: (a) encouraging women and/or men within economically disadvantaged communities in Scotland to voluntarily come together in Self-Reliant Groups (operating under principles of self-help, solidarity and collective enterprise) - trusting and enabling those women and/or men to become leaders and enterprising agents of social and economic change in their local communities as well as relieving their own conditions of financial hardship and/or other disadvantage. and (b) providing ongoing practical support for such Self-Reliant Groups combined with a monitoring role, and in particular to ensure that they uphold standards of best practice as regards governance and transparency and that their activities remain focused on advancing the charitable purposes set out above.

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