Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (RURAL SOUTH LANARKSHIRE)

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Total income £14,137 £16,837 £19,951 £23,947 £18,209 £10,840
Total spending £15,278 £17,067 £17,797 £19,859 £18,637 £14,765
Surplus/deficit -£1,141 -£230 £2,154 £4,088 -£428 -£3,925
Established: 42 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','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: South Lanarkshire
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 76-87
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 17/01/1983, number: SC013691
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2004, number: SC269399
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

2 Hope Street, Lanark, ML11 7LZ

Objectives

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the inhabitants of rural South Lanarkshire and in particular the advancement of education, the furtherance of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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