Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

GRAMPIAN SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 42 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 £1,601,156 £1,607,302 £1,611,014 £1,747,274 £1,912,283
Donations & Legacies £174,080 £164,590 £11,341 £162,700 £237,129
Other Income
Investment Income £58,833 £63,251 £46,500 £56,344 £51,610
Total income £1,968,352 £2,007,358 £1,837,744 £1,999,583 £2,027,228 £2,314,627
Charitable activities spending £2,157,550 £2,084,415 £2,299,209 £2,056,976 £2,394,613
Fundraising costs 7% 10% 9% 5% 6% 6%
Other spending
Total spending £2,296,732 £2,275,181 £2,466,518 £2,157,879 £2,371,743 £2,541,211
Surplus/deficit -£328,380 -£267,823 -£628,774 -£158,296 -£344,515 -£226,584
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • 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
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems

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
BBC Children in Need£78,000
Scottish Government£70,369
The Clothworkers Foundation£18,000
William Grant Foundation£15,022
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
William Grant Foundation - North East Sensory Services - Young People’s Sensory Service Moray
£15,022 21/04/2022
Contribution to work with young people with sensory loss in the Moray area over one year.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Scoping study to extend NESS Young People's Sensory Service to Dundee
£4,760 12/08/2021
To fund a scoping study prior to extending our Young People's Sensory Service (YPSS) into Dundee. YPSS currently supports 161 children and young people aged 0 - 19 with a severe visual and/or hearing ....more
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - NESS Digital Inclusion
£9,680 01/07/2021
Detailed information not yet available.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 19/03/2021
Connect, Include and Support (CIS)
BBC Children in Need - Grant to North East Sensory Services (NESS)
£75,000 11/12/2020
This project will provide a regular programme of activities, social contact groups and peer support for young people with a visual and/or hearing impairment in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire & Moray, ....more
Scottish Government - Grampian Society For The Blind
£23,917 25/11/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to North East Sensory Services (NESS)
£2,815 24/10/2020
We enable children with a serious sensory loss to take part in an array of fun activities just like their peers.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Grampian Society For The Blind
£4,857 21/10/2020
To enable staff returning from furlough to work remotely to provide services to users within the demands of the new normal.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to North East Sensory Services (NESS)
£3,000 17/06/2020
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COVID19 - This grant will fund staffing to support 161 children and young people with a severe sight &/or hearing impairment who are isolated at home due to Covid-19, reducing their isolation and ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Grampian Society for the Blind operating as North East Sensory Services
£18,000 27/05/2020
purchase of IT equipment for a charity that works with visually impaired in Aberdeen
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£3,000 25/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Scottish Government - Grampian Society For The Blind
£21,452 19/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Grampian Society for the Blind
£25,000 23/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Grampian Society For The Blind
£4,007 07/04/2020
to purchase five laptops to enable fieldwork staff to deliver support services remotely to visually and hearing impaired people of all ages, their families and carers across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect, Include and Support (CIS)
£232,323 01/02/2019
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This group will continue to deliver their Connect, Include and Support (CIS) project for the next four years. This work reduces isolation amongst older people with significant sight and hearing loss ....more
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Connect, Include & Support (CIS)
£33,000 28/11/2018
To help reduce social isolation by providing a variety of support for socially isolated people aged 65 + living in Aberdeen City and Moray who have a significant visual and/or hearing impairment, ....more
Robertson Trust - The ICT For All
£33,000 01/06/2018
The ICT For All
BBC Children in Need - Grant to NESS North East Sensory Services
£61,701 02/03/2018
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This project will deliver a youth club, a range of holiday activities and 121 work for young people with sensory impairments across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. It will be fun, reduce isolation ....more
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - ICT Service Dundee
£7,972 01/03/2017
The ICT Service project will be delivered in the Dundee Resource Centre one day per week. This service will provide the opportunity for people with a serious sensory loss to learn to use digital ....more
Robertson Trust - the Employment Service in Dundee
£31,000 31/08/2016
the Employment Service in Dundee
Robertson Trust - The ICT For All
£49,500 30/04/2015
The ICT For All
National Lottery Community Fund - CIS (Connect, Inform and Support)
£436,523 04/02/2015
48
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - NESS CIS (Connect, Inform and Support) Project
£283,970 14/03/2012
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This group will support older people with a sensory impairment helping them remain independent and reducing social inclusion. It will do this by providing a bespoke package of one to one practical ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (15)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/15 persons

Age Range of Directors: 26-75
  • AULD, Kenneth John
    Appointed: 2023
    Occupation: Retired Actuary, Pension Scheme Trustee Director
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/12/1981, number: SC009537
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/01/1995, number: SC155630
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

21 John Street, Aberdeen, AB25 1BT

Objectives

1 To work in partnership with people affected by sensory loss (and with the carers of such people) in the North-east of Scotland, Shetland and/or in such other areas as the Company may resolve to include within the geographical area of its operations in order that such people may achieve independent and fulfilling lives as equal members of society, and to similarly work with people (and the carers of such people) with other disabilities, where such work may, with mutual benefit. Be undertaken in conjunction with the Company's work with persons affected by sensory loss and their carers

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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