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home >> charity search >> 3tfm community radio for health
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Spending falling: -1
  • but now stabilising: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -3 ?

3TFM COMMUNITY RADIO FOR HEALTH 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period but has stabilised more recently
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/05/17 31/05/18 31/05/19 31/05/20 31/05/21 31/05/22 31/05/23
Total income £24,119 £18,620 £18,202 £427 £14,062 £5,962 £1,247
Total spending £30,928 £24,924 £13,265 £3,791 £9,156 £8,290 £7,072
Surplus/deficit -£6,809 -£6,304 £4,937 -£3,364 £4,906 -£2,328 -£5,825
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Established: 17 years

www.3tfm.org.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Other individual and family services
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: North Ayrshire
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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 - Upgrading equipment at 3TFM Community Radio
£4,500 20/09/2021
The group will use the money to upgrade their broadcasting equipment allowing them to continue to broadcast FM radio content to their local community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Radio Promoting Health & Well Being - Going Digital!!
£10,000 01/05/2013
12
The radio station will purchase a Digital Broadcasting System in order to improve the sustainability of the radio service it currently provides.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 25-70
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/06/2007, number: SC038383
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/05/2007, number: SC324219
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR19: 97 days late,
Main office

The Frank Sweeney Centre for Enterprise, 82 - 84 Glasgow Street, , Ardrossan,, Ayrshire, KA22 8EH

Objectives

(1) To advance health, to advance education, to relieve poverty, and to advance citizenship and community development principally for the benefit of the residents of Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan ('the Community') through: (a) Providing training and to engage with the residents of the Community in the design and production of local radio programmes which provide access to healthy lifestyle information, uplifting and educational speech, music of relevance to the Community, and which provide entertainment. (b) Providing public health information and general advice and guidance on health and wellbeing through the medium of a community radio service. (c) Providing training, particularly to unemployed people, and to provide unemployed people with volunteering opportunities, work experience and access to childcare facilities. (d) Providing opportunities for individuals and groups from the Community to broadcast, with an emphasis on young people and adults affected by social exclusion. (e) Providing guidance on the availability of support and advice from statutory bodies, agencies and charities within the Community and to do so without distinction of race, sex or political, religious or other opinions.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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