Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

WOMEN'S AID SOUTH LANARKSHIRE AND EAST RENFREWSHIRE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Established: 14 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £1,448,860 £1,574,770 £1,565,384 £1,753,273 £1,930,930
Donations & Legacies £9,974 £6,502 £17,103 £22,849 £8,640
Other Income £1,067 £14,412
Investment Income
Total income £1,458,834 £1,581,272 £1,582,487 £1,777,189 £1,684,301 £1,953,982
Charitable activities spending £1,616,777 £1,663,541 £1,592,649 £1,672,452 £1,761,667
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £1,616,777 £1,663,541 £1,592,649 £1,672,452 £1,611,581 £1,761,667
Surplus/deficit -£157,943 -£82,269 -£10,162 £104,737 £72,720 £192,315
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The promotion of equality and diversity
  • 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: South Lanarkshire
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£24,914
National Lottery Community Fund£24,800
Scottish Government£12,600
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - WASLER ARTS Cultivate – Art workshops to research and develop a community garden
£10,000 06/06/2023
This group will use the funding to provide gardening and arts activities for the women and children they support.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Women's Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire
£4,950 11/11/2020
To contribute towards an updated IT system which will enable 50 staff and student counsellors to work more effectively and continue providing secure remote support to women and children who are ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£24,914 01/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Scottish Government - Women's Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire
£12,600 10/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Women's Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire
£5,000 08/06/2020
COVID19 : Purchase smart phones for a charity that works with women, children and young people with experience of domestic abuse in South Lanarkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - WASLER COVID- 19 Response
£9,800 01/05/2020
5
This group will use funding to support women and children affected by domestic abuse and the COVID-19 lockdown across Lanarkshire over the coming months. They will be provided with mobile phones so ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - WASLER Arts
£5,000 28/05/2019
12
This group will use the funding to enhance their existing creative arts programme providing opportunities for women affected by domestic abuse to explore and address issues relating to their ....more
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Building Equality 'Digi, Aye!'
£10,000 01/11/2017
Building Equality (BE) is a new project within WASLER, exploring the relationship between employment, gender and domestic abuse. Its aim for service users is: women have increased financial ....more
Robertson Trust - Salary costs for the full-time refuge support worker for East Renfrewshire
£45,000 19/09/2017
Salary costs for the full-time refuge support worker for East Renfrewshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire Creative Support P
£10,000 22/02/2017
12
Women's Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire Creative Support P
National Lottery Community Fund - WASLER: Children Experiencing Domestic Abuse Recovery Project (CEDAR P
£410,699 23/06/2016
36
This group aims to continue the successful Cedar programme in South Lanarkshire to meet an increasing demand. The project aims to help children and their mothers who have experienced domestic abuse ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Womens Peer Support and Therapeutic Group Work
£10,000 29/08/2012
12
This group will form four support groups throughout South Lanarkshire addressing the impact of domestic abuse on women and their children. The grant will fund venue hire and crèche facilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - CEDAR- Children Experiencing Domestic Abuse Recovery
£288,671 01/02/2012
41
The project will build upon the existing CEDAR work in the area to further support women and their children to recover from the impact of domestic abuse. Mothers and children will attend parallel ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 36-50
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 16/09/2010, number: SC041781
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/09/2010, number: SC385178
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

3rd Floor Edinburgh House, 20 Princes Square, East Kilbride, G74 1L J

Objectives

a) To support women children and young people who have experienced or are in fear of domestic abuse by (i) the provision of temporary refuge accommodation. (ii) providing support and information on access to other services. (iii) providing structured supportive opportunities to allow these women, children and young people to make choices for their future. (iv) liaising with other services, including the police, and advocating for women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse within legal and other protection services. b) The advancement of education by: (i) raising awareness of the effects of domestic abuse with the public and with young people in particular. (ii) providing opportunities for women, children and young people to shape the development of services, policy and practice at strategic level. c) The promotion of equality and diversity by upholding and promoting the rights of all women, children and young people regardless of ethnicity, religion or cultural background, who have experienced domestic abuse in the belief that violence against women , is symptomatic of wider structural inequalities in society, and thus mainly perpetrated by men

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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