Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

FIFE EMPLOYMENT ACCESS TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 30 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 £40,134 £41,965
Donations & Legacies £540,647 £526,273 £931,178 £1,022,573 £918,487
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £560,958 £595,832 £1,051,022 £1,162,096 £962,600 £925,479
Charitable activities spending £548,848 £572,187 £661,648 £627,804 £739,041
Fundraising costs
Other spending £242,087 £333,391
Total spending £548,848 £572,187 £903,735 £961,195 £985,808 £739,041
Surplus/deficit £12,110 £23,645 £147,287 £200,901 -£23,208 £186,438
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of health
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Fife
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Who's supporting them? ?

Awards received
  • CSJ Awards 2019 Work Award
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
Henry Smith Charity£120,000
Scottish Government£84,147
Wolfson Foundation£50,000
BBC Children in Need£27,054
Foundation Scotland£11,250
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£10,000 17/11/2022
purchase of laptops for a charity which works with people with mental health issues in Fife
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£120,000 22/09/2022
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towards three years' running costs of a project providing various employment support programmes for adults and young people with severe mental health issues in Fife, Scotland.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£250 30/03/2022
Anonymous donation. To assist with the regeneration of the Flax Mill and the redevelopment of Silverburn Park.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust (FEAT)
£50,000 09/12/2021
Restoration of Silverburn Flax Mill
Scottish Government - Fife Employment Access Trust
£49,397 07/04/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£5,000 17/02/2021
To help Fife Employment Access Trust expand their resource base for activities with a wide range of disadvantaged groups within Silverburn Park, providing much needed wet-weather cover in a new ....more
Scottish Government - Fife Employment Access Trust
£25,000 04/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£27,054 11/12/2020
Structured courses in self-management, personal development and employability will support young people with severe mental health issues to manage feelings and be better able to cope.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£5,000 07/10/2020
to contribute to the staffing costs associated with supporting 20 people in Fife with enduring mental health conditions, helping them manage their anxieties as they return to work after being ....more
Scottish Government - Fife Employment Access Trust
£9,750 10/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£1,000 03/04/2020
To help cover the cost of purchasing "Zoom Online Video Conferencing" packages (13 month subscription approx. £600), IT consultancy service (£1325), £50 towards staff home-working ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£8,605 04/12/2018
To purchase equipment that would count visitor numbers to an estate managed by a charity that supports people with poor mental health through providing volunteering, training and work opportunities.
Women's Fund for Scotland - Salary and Overhead costs
£5,000 15/06/2018
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to contribute towards salary costs and overheads.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Fife Employment Access Trust
£5,025 29/11/2017
We want to expand our innovative services for people with complex mental health difficulties who face multiple challenges in everyday life.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Employ your Mind
£7,317 03/04/2017
They wish to improve their digital skills training and support with a view to embedding this approach within their existing "Employ your Mind" programme. The wider programme is partnership ....more
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/96
£5,000 30/03/2017
to support the Employ Your Mind Project for people with complex mental health difficulties.
National Lottery Community Fund - Employ your Mind
£120,140 24/01/2017
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This group will support people who face significant challenges in everyday living as a result of enduring and complex mental health difficulties. They will use the funding to provide a combination of ....more
Robertson Trust - Towards the salary costs of the ETC Trainer and Team Leader.
£45,000 30/06/2016
Towards the salary costs of the ETC Trainer and Team Leader.
National Lottery Community Fund - There is no project name available for this record
£10,000 25/10/2012
12
The group, based in Glenrothes, would like to investigate the possibility of taking on and developing a community asset in Leven as a community resource. _x000B_
National Lottery Community Fund - Employ your Mind
£687,090 01/02/2012
60
The project will benefit adults who have severe enduring mental health conditions and experience multiple barriers to returning to or entering the work place. Beneficiaries will attend the project ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 42-64
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 26/01/1994, number: SC022263
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/02/2011, number: SC394284
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

3 Silverburn Cottages, Silverburn Park, , Leven, KY8 5PU

Objectives

5.1 to relieve the needs of individuals with disabilities. 5.2 to advance education. 5.3 to promote equality and diversity.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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