Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
  • Return overdue: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -13 ?

WISHAW & DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22
Total income £401 £693 £311 £20 £0
Total spending £724 £724 £1,442 £50 £486
Surplus/deficit -£323 -£31 -£1,131 -£30 -£486
Established: 25 years
Scottish Charity Regulator
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: North Lanarkshire
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 07/04/1999, number: SC028910
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 57 days late,
Main office

29, Carbarons West, Netherton, Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, ML2 0DE

Objectives

To relieve the blind, or the partially sighted, or those labouring under some temporary or permanent incapacity or disability which makes reading a strain, by the provision of recorded tapes or tactile reading matter.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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