Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

    ABBEYFIELD STIRLING SOCIETY LTD 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Charitable activities £284,670 £225,390
    Donations & Legacies
    Other Income £60,664
    Investment Income £653
    Total income £169,152 £182,899 £193,546 £230,935 £284,670 £286,707
    Charitable activities spending £271,041 £217,860
    Fundraising costs
    Other spending £66,086
    Total spending £185,012 £199,590 £207,008 £243,597 £271,041 £283,946
    Surplus/deficit -£15,860 -£16,691 -£13,462 -£12,662 £13,629 £2,761
    Established: 58 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It does none of these
    GiG Classification
    • Community services
    Purposes
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    • 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: Stirling
    Who it helps
    • Older People

    Who's supporting them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 01/09/1966, number: SC010551
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    17 Allan Park, Stirling, FK8 2QG

    Objectives

    The Society is established to relieve aged impotent and poor people of all classes, for the advancement of religion and education and for other charitable purposes beneficial to the community. And as ancillary to the foregoing objects:- (a) To establish, manage, improve and construct in Stirling and elsewhere houses, homes, hostels clubs and holiday camps for lonely, neglected, old or handicapped people and provide them there and in their own homes with the care security and Christian love to which they are entitled. (b) To encourage and enable individuals and the community at large to realise live up to and bear their Christian and citizen responsibilities to those who are lonely neglected old or handicapped. (c) To promote further education by providing in the Burgh of Stirling and elsewhere facilities for the practice and encouragement of the Arts, physical training, training in citizenship for juveniles and young persons of all classes to encourage them to take an interest therein and in social, national and international questions and to lead them to a fuller understanding of the Christian religion. (d) To assist and promote the welfare of juveniles and young persons of the poorer classes by establishing homes hostels common rooms and holiday camps for them and there providing for them board lodging and accommodation under proper care and supervision. (e) To provide training and experience for persons interested in social work. (f) To assist, establish, subsidise promote co-operate or federate with affiliate or become affiliated to act as trustee or agent for or manage lend money, or any other assistance to any association society or other body corporate or unincorporate established for charitable purposes only, and for the purpose (and only for the purpose) of promoting any objects of the Society to co-operate with manufacturers dealers or other traders and with the press and other sources of publicity.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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