Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +4

GRAMPIAN WOMEN'S AID 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female
Established: 46 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £425,171 £399,950 £280,771 £244,997 £507,931
Donations & Legacies £8,259 £28,023 £176,787 £450,351 £23,573
Other Income
Investment Income £1,096 £2,193 £1,560 £682 £1,788
Total income £434,526 £430,166 £459,118 £696,030 £527,926 £533,477
Charitable activities spending £437,866 £491,055 £414,903 £545,425 £525,630
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £437,866 £491,055 £414,903 £545,425 £459,771 £525,630
Surplus/deficit -£3,340 -£60,889 £44,215 £150,605 £68,155 £7,847
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups
Purposes
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Aberdeen
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£218,412
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Women's Fund for Scotland£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 14/02/2020
Grampian Women's Aid
Women's Fund for Scotland - The Freedom Programme
£10,000 16/12/2019
23
to contribute towards salary costs, accommodation and delivering workshops.
National Lottery Community Fund - Safer Together
£218,412 21/06/2019
24
This group will continue to deliver and develop their outreach service in Aberdeenshire offering one-to-one emotional support and practical advice to women and children experiencing domestic abuse. ....more
Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Child and Young Persons Support Worker
£28,500 22/11/2016
The salary costs of the Child and Young Persons Support Worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Grampian Women's Pathways from Abuse
£783,594 12/03/2014
60
Grampian Women's Pathways from Abuse

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 44-75
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 13/06/1978, number: SC000033
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/01/1991, number: SC129369
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 51 days late,
Main office

The Gatehouse, Quarry Road, Aberdeen, AB16 5UU

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are:- a. To provide advice, support and refuge for women and their children who have suffered mental, physical or sexual harassment or abuse. b. To encourage these women to determine their own future and to help them achieve it, whether it involves returning home or starting a new life. c. To recognise and care for the emotional and educational needs of the children involved. d. To offer support, advice and help to any abused women who asks for it, whether or not she is resident and also to offer support and after-care to any women and children who have left the refuge. e. To encourage research into causes on ways of preventing or relieving the suffering caused by such harassment and to keep such statistics and basic records as will facilitate research to the long term benefit of all abused women. f. To educate and inform the public, the media, the police, the courts, the social services and other authorities, with respect to the abuse of women and enlist the support of professional workers to help women with all aspects of their problems.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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