Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

ABILITY SHETLAND LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 37 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
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 £219,948 £230,738
Donations & Legacies £63,618 £87,420
Other Income £848 £2,921
Investment Income £5 £39
Total income £74,521 £191,271 £189,627 £285,286 £282,749 £322,818
Charitable activities spending £200,821 £394,786
Fundraising costs 0%
Other spending
Total spending £71,755 £175,849 £229,818 £200,905 £326,920 £394,786
Surplus/deficit £2,766 £15,422 -£40,191 £84,381 -£44,171 -£71,968
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
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: Shetland Islands

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£238,681
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£12,052
Co-Operative Group£7,834
Foundation Scotland£1,016
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ability Shetland
£7,834 21/10/2023
We would like to continue to deliver our adult clubs in Lerwick and the North Mainland. The clubs provide social and learning opportunities for adults with disabilities and additional support needs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Holiday Activities
£7,150 16/11/2022
The group will use the funding to to provide activities and trips as part of their holiday provision during Easter Summer and October 2023. This will include experiences that are unattainable for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ability Shetland - supporting disabled people across the isles!
£131,531 23/08/2022
This group will use the funding to deliver a project for families and adults with disabilities and additional support needs in Shetland. The project will consist of a programme of groups clubs and ....more
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Holiday Club for children with additional support needs (ASN).
£12,052 02/08/2022
To provide a Holiday Club for children and young people in Shetland who have disabilities, including neurological conditions. We will offer a programme of fun recreational activities for six weeks a ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Ability Shetland Ltd
£1,016 30/09/2020
To purchase sports equipment for Ability Shetland?s sports clubs in Unst and Lerwick
National Lottery Community Fund - Ability Shetland - supporting people with disabilities
£100,000 20/05/2020
24
This group will use the funding to continue running activities for people who have disabilities or additional support needs. Over three years the group will provide one-to-one support to individuals ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Disability Shetland
£15,462 19/11/2018
We want to start a new project in an area where a significant number of residents experience discrimination, isolation and deprivation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Disability Shetland
£11,379 04/08/2017
Special clubs will support children & young people with disabilities to live active lives, learn new things & forge meaningful friendships.
National Lottery Community Fund - Disability Shetland Services for individuals and groups
£138,000 26/07/2017
36
This group will deliver a range of group activities, clubs and individual programmes for clients with disabilities and additional support needs throughout the urban, rural and island areas of ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Disability Shetland
£99,722 14/06/2017
36
Clubs and activities for disabled children and young people in Shetland, in locations across the islands. They will have fun and make friends, be less isolated, improve their social and communication ....more
Robertson Trust - The Recreational Programme
£30,000 31/10/2015
The Recreational Programme
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Disability Shetland
£16,460 01/07/2015
This project will increase the confidence self-esteem independence and social skills of disabled children and young people in Shetland by providing art drama craft and sports activities at clubs ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (9)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Directors: 18-69
  • MOAR, Sophie
    Appointed: 2022
    Occupation: Support Worker - Employability
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 27/03/1987, number: SC001111
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/10/2000, number: SC211924
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Market House, 14 Market Street, Lerwick, Shetland, ZE1 0JP

Objectives

The company's objects are: (a) Carry out its activities in a way that ensures that people with disabilities and additional support needs are treated as full and equal members of their communities. (b) Devise group and individual programmes which meet the identified need of clients, by creating appropriate services and strategies and removing any obstruction to that process. (c) Continually assess the need for expanding and improving our service. (d) Ensure that people in Shetland communities have full knowledge and understanding of disabilities, but also recognise the potential of disabled children and adults. (e) Work in close co-operation with statutory and voluntary organisations to create integrated approaches and strategies for the benefit of shared clients.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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