Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 1

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 5

CITIZENS ADVICE AND RIGHTS FIFE LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

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

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	£2,540,812	£2,595,899	£2,721,206	£2,796,959		£3,379,898
Donations & Legacies	£947	£110	£285	£235
Other Income
Investment Income	£2,692	£6,163	£7,585	£6,474		£18,840
Total income	£2,544,451	£2,602,172	£2,729,076	£2,803,668	£2,945,845	£3,399,048
Charitable activities spending	£2,747,666	£2,811,978	£3,122,766	£2,867,862		£3,384,606
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending	£2,747,666	£2,811,978	£3,122,766	£2,867,862	£3,352,268	£3,384,606
Surplus/deficit	-£203,215	-£209,806	-£393,690	-£64,194	-£406,423	£14,442

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Established: 27 years

www.cabfife.org.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Practical support, advice & companionship

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Fife

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Develop a habit with a Tablet
£8,933	01/11/2017	The aim of the project is to work with the clients who visit our offices seeking advice on how to utilise smart technology to help prevent future benefit issues, including potential sanctions. ....more The aim of the project is to work with the clients who visit our offices seeking advice on how to utilise smart technology to help prevent future benefit issues, including potential sanctions. Universal Credit rolls out to Fife in December 2017. We will work with clients who will inevitably access our offices with UC enquiries, educating them on how to access and use the online journal element of the UC system, reducing the need for clients to re-access our service for future assistance and negating the threat of sanctions. Once our advisers/volunteers have resolved the presenting UC issues, they will show clients how to access, and manage, the online journal. This will form part of our service offering to those accessing us for UC difficulties. We will work with those who have access to the technology but lack the digital acuity to manage the online journal system. This is critical to the correct payment of benefit, avoidance of sanctions and ensuring payments are received.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (9)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 24-74

BRUCE, Matthew Gerald Thomas
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Student

CAIRNS, Alistair
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Retired

DAVIDSON, Martin
Appointed: 2021
Occupation: Civil Servant

FERGUSON, Jean Lesley
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Business Consultant

HAMILTON, Lilian Combe
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Retired

LYALL, Maureen
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Retired Manager Of Educational Services

MCTIERNAN, Peter
Appointed: 2012
Occupation: Retired

REDPATH, David John
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Chief Executive

THOMSON, Richard
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Trading Standards Officer

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 12/08/1997, number: SC027015
Registered at Companies House on 12/08/1997, number: SC178060

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

, KY7 5QF

Objectives

to promote any charitable purposes for the public benefit in Fife ('the area of local benefit') and elsewhere, by: (i) The advancement of education by providing clients with information, clarification and understanding of legislation and their legal rights and responsibilities. (ii) The relief of those in need by assessing clients entitlement to welfare benefits, by providing assistance in claiming benefits and by assisting them to appeal against refusal to benefits and by doing so ensure they do not suffer from poverty. (iii) The advancement of civil and human rights by ensuring that people do not suffer through ignorance of their civil and human rights and by taking such actions as are intended to redress the situation and redress wrongs and restore justice. (iv) Advancement of health by providing a comprehensive advice service which deals with all aspects of clients problems and alleviates the injury, stress and anxiety caused by unsolved problems. (v) Advancement of community development by recruiting, training and developing local citizens to be volunteers in and for the Citizens Advice Bureau who in turn assist members of the public in their community and in doing so contribute to the development of their community.

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