Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

    AID FOR EDUCATION SCIO 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
    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 £48,810 £58,517 £46,843 £62,913 £51,067 £39,576
    Total spending £44,394 £54,148 £43,877 £24,883 £44,421 £49,577
    Surplus/deficit £4,416 £4,369 £2,966 £38,030 £6,646 -£10,001
    Established: 14 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Christian congregations
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of religion','the advancement of health','the saving of lives','the promotion of religious or racial harmony','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • UK and overseas, main operating location: Glasgow City
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems

    Who supports 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 04/02/2010, number: SC041250
    • Notes: The SCIO was incorporated on 19 February 2014 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Aid For Education SC041250, which was an Unincorporated Association registered as a charity since 04 February 2010.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Eastons Private Client Solicitors, Pentagon Centre, Washington Street, Glasgow, G3 8AZ

    Objectives

    For such ends and uses charitable for the purposes of the Taxes Acts and also the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force including without prejudice to the generality: (ii) the advancement of education. (iii) the advancement of religion. (iv) the advancement of health. (v) the saving of lives. (vi) the promotion of religious or racial harmony. (vii) the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. (viii) any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes. or such one or more of these as the Trustees in their sole and absolute discretion may from time to time determine, and for any other charitable purpose or purposes recognised as such by the Law of Scotland which the Trustees in their sole and absolute discretion consider to be in the public interest, towards which the Trustees may (but only in such ways as do not prejudice the charitable standing of the Trust), (a) raise funds towards the promotion and advancement of the Christian (b) raise funds for the advancement of health and the relief of poverty and human suffering within and outwith the United Kingdom. (c) provide and/or see to the reasonable funding of education, relief, shelter and aid to those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage within and outwith the United Kingdom. (d) establish, support and aid in the construction, formation, establishment and maintenance of schools or similar institutions of learning for the advancement of education and training in deprived areas throughout the world:

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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