Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 0

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

All male board: -3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -7

OBAN & DISTRICT ACCESS PANEL

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

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	31/03/23
Total income	£1,000	£246	£2,150	£2,837	£2,448	£1,197
Total spending	£819	£2,033	£1,221	£1,253	£1,801	£2,161
Surplus/deficit	£181	-£1,787	£929	£1,584	£647	-£964

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Established: 24 years

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

Purposes

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

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Argyll And Bute

Who it helps

Older People
People with disabilities or health problems

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (3)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 58-79

JOHNSTON, Kenneth Alexander
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Retired

SPENCE, Andrew Thomas
Appointed: 2021
Occupation: Chief Executive, Bid4oban Ltd.

TOLMIE, James Cumming
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 06/06/2000, number: SC030304
Registered at Companies House on 08/01/2002, number: SC226788

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

, PA34 4LU

Objectives

3(i) To relieve the needs of persons residing in or visiting Oban and District, (which District, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be defined as including North Argyll, the Islands of Mull and Iona, Coll, Tiree, Colonsay, Lismore and other small inhabited Islands in the vicinity of North Argyll) who have a mobility or sensory problem. (i) To promote the welfare of people with disabilities throughout Oban and District. (a) promote the participation of disabled people in issues concerning individuals at local, district and national level, (b) act as a consultative body, informing both service providers and planners of the needs of disabled people, (c) monitor, review and seek to influence, as consumers, the policies and procedures of Argyll and Bute Council (being the local authority), and/or any other service provider, highlighting under provision and bringing this to the attention of the above agencies. (d) seek to improve the collection and dissemination of information relevant to disabled people, (e) promote awareness through training, education and action in order to remove the social, attitudinal and economic barriers which prevent disabled people from fully participating in the community, so as to achieve full citizenship, equal opportunity and maximum independence within society. (f) act as a focal point in receiving and pursuing all issues for and on behalf of people with disabilities, (g) promote access to all public buildings, areas and facilities in Oban and District for disabled people and for the attainment of the foregoing, provided it shall seem necessary or desirable, to promote, or assist or oppose proposals for the use or development of public buildings, areas or facilities.