Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: 4

INVERNESS WOMEN'S AID

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 35 years

www.invernesswa.org

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	£148,700	£129,382	£120,894	£152,321		£49,464
Donations & Legacies	£390,732	£365,014	£362,782	£477,182		£487,185
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income	£539,432	£494,396	£483,676	£629,503	£561,879	£536,649
Charitable activities spending	£605,770	£582,624	£553,365	£574,642		£567,930
Fundraising costs
Other spending			£718
Total spending	£605,770	£582,624	£554,083	£574,642	£630,450	£567,930
Surplus/deficit	-£66,338	-£88,228	-£70,407	£54,861	-£68,571	-£31,281

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Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

Purposes

The advancement of health
The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Where it operates

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

This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Who it helps

Other defined groups

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Comic Relief - Children,Young People & Family Domestic Abuse Support Service
£35,450	27/01/2016 36	Inverness Women’s Aid supports women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse in Inverness City and across 46% of rural Highland. The area has seen a 69% increase in reporting since ....more Inverness Women’s Aid supports women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse in Inverness City and across 46% of rural Highland. The area has seen a 69% increase in reporting since 2011. Funding will enable IWA to develop and extend its integrated family support service to children and young people and their mothers to support the rebuilding of family relationships and re-establish the mother’s parenting role. National research identifies that this improves the resilience and life chances of children and young people affected by domestic abuse. The grant will fund a full time family support worker who will support mothers and children each year to keep safe and build new lives.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)

Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 34-61

BANGERA, Iris
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Counsellor

BROCKLESBY, Emma
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Graphic Designer

BUCHANAN, Muirne Passelet
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Business Person

HENDERSON, Lyn Marie
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Marketing Specialist

MCCOWAT, Samantha Ann Mairi
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Therapist

PERRIN, Nikki Eve Deborah
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Researcher

ROSS, Eilidh
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Lawyer

THOMSON, Amy Gemma
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Student

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 09/12/1988, number: SC016052
Registered at Companies House on 15/06/1988, number: SC111614

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

2 Anderson Street, Inverness, IV3 8DF

Objectives

4.1 To provide a temporary refuge or refuges for women and their children (if any) and to include young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen where the women have suffered abuse (mental, physical or sexual) in their home or within a relationship. 4.2 To offer support, advice and help to any women and their children and to include young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen who ask for help (and whether they are refuge residents) and to offer support and advice to any women and children including young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen who have left a temporary refuge. 4.3 To encourage women to determine their own futures. 4.4 To encourage statutory authorities and other agencies to recognise their obligations legal and otherwise towards women and their children to include young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen and their representatives in regard to the abuse of women and the prevention thereof. 4.5 To encourage research into the causes, the prevention and relief of suffering and abuse of women.

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