Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -6

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Very static board: -5
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -1

FABLEVISION

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board composition appears to be very static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/03/17	31/03/18	31/03/19	31/03/20	31/03/21	31/03/22	31/03/23	31/03/24
Total income	£49,104	£74,811	£45,063	£50,067	£62,579	£103,709	£87,651	£87,615
Total spending	£49,476	£75,743	£41,704	£39,546	£37,975	£102,071	£90,237	£90,237
Surplus/deficit	-£372	-£932	£3,359	£10,521	£24,604	£1,638	-£2,586	-£2,622

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Established: 39 years

www.fablevision.org

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

General Community services

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Where it operates

Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: Renfrewshire

Who it helps

Children or young people
Older People
People with disabilities or health problems','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Heritage Fund	£19,950
Foundation Scotland	£12,912
National Lottery Community Fund	£7,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - A&A (Animated and Accessible)
£7,000	06/06/2023	The applicants will use the funding to facilitate pop-up cultural spaces to enable people who might not necessarily visit traditional cultural venues to access the arts.
Foundation Scotland - Woven in Renfrewshire: Creative Engagement and Outreach
£3,000	16/02/2023 2	To part fund a programme of training in creative and multi media skills linked to delivery of the Woven in Renfrewshire programme of activities
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Fablevision
£9,950	01/09/2022	Woven in Renfrewshire
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Fablevision
£10,000	25/02/2021	NL20:Woven Network, Govan Stories
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fablevision
£4,982	07/09/2020 7	to develop digital capabilities to focus on facilitating online work as a main way of conducting relationships and business ? as has become necessary because of restrictions following the Covid-19 ....more to develop digital capabilities to focus on facilitating online work as a main way of conducting relationships and business ? as has become necessary because of restrictions following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fablevision
£4,930	29/11/2019 11	to contribute towards purchasing IT equipment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 50-67

GARDINER, Elizabeth
Appointed: 2012
Occupation: Cultural Planner

HART, Edward Richard
Appointed: 2016
Occupation: Editor

MCGILLIVRAY, Iain Patrick
Appointed: 2016
Occupation: Photographer/Director

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 15/08/1985, number: SC015348
Registered at Companies House on 24/04/1985, number: SC093003

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Unit 24, The Paisley Centre, 23 High Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA1 2AQ

Objectives

to promote education and alleviate poverty by aidint the economic social and environmental regeneration of communities through the arts. In furtherance of these aims, the compnay will:- Implement theatre, theatre arts, and cultural projects throughout Scotland. Tour Theatre and Theatre in Education Programmes to reach out to those people in Scotland who do not generally have access to Threatre. Act as a catalyst for the 'development of new projects and compnaies, who thereafter progress to operate independently.

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