Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • All female board: -3
  • Return overdue: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -11 ?

HIGHLAND ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static
  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
Financial Data
Period ending 31/05/17
Total income £0
Total spending £0
Surplus/deficit £0
Established: 8 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Highland
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 38-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 30/06/2016, number: SC046660
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2016, number: SC538195
Main office

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Objectives

1- The relief of hardship among people living or working in Inverness and the Highland area by providing such persons with accommodation and the appropriate support to enable them to stay in accommodation which they could not otherwise secure 2 -The relief of those in need living in Inverness and the Highlands either generally or individually through the provision of accommodation and/or services 3-To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society For the purpose of this clause 'socially excluded' means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment. financial hardship. youth or old age. ill health (physical or mental). substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs. discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment. poor educational or skills attainment. relationship and family breakdown. poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards). crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society). 4-To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society For the purpose of this clause 'socially excluded' means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community. Maximum text reached, further full information can be obtained directly from the charity.

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