Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: -1

HIGHLAND SENIOR CITIZENS NETWORK

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 21 years

www.hscn.co.uk

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	£74,921	£31,381	£75,419	£54,532	£55,161	£53,825
Total spending	£55,087	£57,135	£57,875	£63,514	£48,314	£60,244
Surplus/deficit	£19,834	-£25,754	£17,544	-£8,982	£6,847	-£6,419

Listed activities

It does none of these

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty
The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development','the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended

Where it operates

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

Who it helps

Older People

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
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Highland Senior Citizens Network
£3,100	15/05/2020	To provide a monthly COVID Newsletter to 150 members who have no digital access to their website, to mitigate their isolation and loneliness and provide helpful advice and information on a wide range ....more To provide a monthly COVID Newsletter to 150 members who have no digital access to their website, to mitigate their isolation and loneliness and provide helpful advice and information on a wide range of services and contacts.
Robertson Trust - Towards the FT Coordinators' salaries
£15,000	11/06/2019	Towards the FT Coordinators' salaries
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Highland Senior Citizens Network
£3,481	04/08/2017	Fund our annual conference to enable us to understand and address the issues which affect older people the most.

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 16/12/2002, number: SC034260

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 15 days late,

Main office

Shamrock Mac, 3 Young Street, Inverness, IV3 5BL

Objectives

The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services: 4.1 To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area, 4.2 To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including: 4.2.1 Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area, 4.2.2 Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels, and 4.2.3 Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. 4.3 By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities, and 4.4 By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such organisation of its statutory responsibility.

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