Overall GiG Score: -2 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +4

    SHOPMOBILITY LOCHABER SCIO 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending is declining
    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 16 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    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 £21,212 £72,759 £31,530 £55,213 £60,581 £18,270
    Total spending £36,798 £72,058 £39,116 £40,630 £39,307 £34,932
    Surplus/deficit -£15,586 £701 -£7,586 £14,583 £21,274 -£16,662
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • 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: Highland
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - Shopmobility Lochaber
    £9,645 14/12/2021
    The group will use funding to provide hired mobility equipment for people with temporary or permanent mobility problems in Lochaber.
    Scottish Government - Shopmobility Lochaber SCIO
    £6,250 27/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Robertson Trust - The Costs of Vehicle & Equipment Maintenance & Replacement
    £4,000 31/01/2019
    The Costs of Vehicle & Equipment Maintenance & Replacement
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Shopmobility Lochaber SCIO
    £3,047 19/11/2018
    Funding will maintain the free service currently offered to the local community to increase mobility and promote independence and wellbeing.
    Corra Foundation - HDA-18/364
    £3,000 02/08/2018
    Towards the salary of the part time Assistant Co-ordinator.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Shopmobility Lochaber
    £4,250 22/02/2017
    12
    Shopmobility Lochaber
    National Lottery Community Fund - Replacement of current building
    £10,000 03/03/2011
    12
    This group will purchase a replacement portacabin to meet the needs of an expanding service and growing client list. The grant for will contribute to the cost of a replacement portacabin.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 05/04/2008, number: SC032332
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 17 May 2012 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by SC032332 Shopmobility Lochaber which was an unicorporated association registered as a charity since 02 October 2001
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    The Portacabin, MacFarlane Way, Fort William, Inverness-shire, PH33 6GD

    Objectives

    The aim of Shopmobility is to relieve the need of people with disabilities, by providing facilities, in particular wheelchairs, both battery driven and manual, battery driven scooters and other similar equipment, with the object of improving their mobility and conditions of life.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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