Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • but now stabilising: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

    ADULT LEARNING FRIENDS 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    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
    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 £5,582 £376 £149 £260 £0 £181
    Total spending £542 £3,423 £415 £1,336 £440 £424
    Surplus/deficit £5,040 -£3,047 -£266 -£1,076 -£440 -£243
    Established: 16 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Technical, vocational and continuing education
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • 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: West Lothian
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems','Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    Who's supporting 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 17/01/2008, number: SC039176
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    75 Harburn Drive, West Calder, West Lothian, EH55 8AN

    Objectives

    1. Shall encourage and assist in the advancement of education to further students' learning within the F.A.B.E. organisation and to extend this learning outwith F.A.B.E. and into the wider community. 2. Shall expand students' recreational experiences by giving students, on limited budgets, the opportunity to experience new genres which will enrich their lives. Genres from which they would have been excluded without F.A.B.E.'s input.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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