Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

INVERNESS BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Established: 46 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 £555,077 £1,432,037 £1,370,642 £1,229,605 £1,306,578
Donations & Legacies £554,516 £608,359 £784,067 £1,041,435
Other Income £22,275 £1,995 £280
Investment Income £148 £1,173 £2,879 £717 £3,889
Total income £1,109,741 £2,063,844 £2,159,583 £2,272,037 £2,324,424 £2,442,087
Charitable activities spending £899,359 £1,887,458 £1,923,582 £2,137,630 £2,151,056
Fundraising costs 0% 0%
Other spending £3,229
Total spending £899,359 £1,887,458 £1,926,811 £2,137,630 £2,143,377 £2,155,402
Surplus/deficit £210,382 £176,386 £232,772 £134,407 £181,047 £286,685
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Highland
  • 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
Home Office£133,844
National Lottery Community Fund£78,465
Corra Foundation£35,000
Scottish Government£11,728
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Highland Equality Action Project (HEAP)
£78,465 15/02/2022
This group will use the funding to provide a specialist equality rights service for the Highland community focusing on unlawful discrimination and related employment rights breaches related to having ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding
£133,844 01/04/2021
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support ....more
Scottish Government - Inverness Badenoch and Strathspey Citizens Advice Bureau
£11,728 10/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Corra Foundation - Challenge_Fund-19/942
£35,000 30/03/2020
To test what impact there will be when people who use drugs/alcohol (and their families) are able to quickly access a dedicated specialist holistic CAB support service in order to address their wider ....more
Robertson Trust - Highland Prisoner Advice Project
£28,000 21/11/2018
Highland Prisoner Advice Project
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Empowering Individuals on Low Income
£10,000 01/04/2017
This project will build into the current benefits assessment & support process the ability for CAB staff and volunteers to be able to research their client's basic digital skills competences, and ....more
Women's Fund for Scotland - General expenses
£5,000 22/03/2017
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to contribute towards salary costs, travel expenses, communications and office supplies.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Inverness Badenoch and Strathspey Citizens Advice Bureau
£24,000 22/04/2016
refurbishment costs of new building for a charity which works with disabled people in Inverness
Robertson Trust - Highland Prisoner Advice Project
£45,000 31/10/2015
Highland Prisoner Advice Project
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 31-69
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 07/07/1978, number: SC003951
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/01/1992, number: SC136118
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

29-31 Union Street, Inverness, IV1 1QA

Objectives

To promote any charitable purpose for the public benefit in (i) Highlands of Scotland and (ii) elsewhere

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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