Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

ENABLE COMMUNITIES GROUP 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £4,355,424 £50,881,541 £57,914,997
Donations & Legacies £131,732 £400,687
Other Income £1,062 £105,433 £417
Investment Income £367 £1,214
Total income £4,356,486 £51,324,753 £53,604,537 £58,532,883
Charitable activities spending £4,373,530 £50,520,000 £59,143,723
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 0%
Other spending £28,291 £36,247
Total spending £4,373,530 £50,595,111 £53,416,315 £59,192,929
Surplus/deficit -£17,044 £729,642 £188,222 -£660,046
Established: 5 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: North Lanarkshire
Who it helps
  • 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?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 54-65
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 19/02/2019, number: SC049060
  • Notes: Objectives Continued- (g) to work towards the creation of professional and financial frameworks to meet the needs of beneficiaries and their families. (h) to provide shared services and resources for charities working in these fields in the interests of promoting efficiency and greater effectiveness across those charities and the third sector more widely, with the intention of creating better and more useful services for beneficiaries of such charities. and (i) to promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit. The expressions ?charitable purpose or charitable object shall mean a charitable purpose under section 7 of the 2005 Act which is also regarded as a charitable purpose in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts and a charitable institution shall mean a charity in terms of the 2005 Act which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts, or a charity under the law of any other jurisdiction which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts, provided that nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Company other than in furtherance of a charitable purpose. Former legal name Piper Communities Group Limited changed to ENABLE Communities Group.
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/02/2019, number: SC620598
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

INSPIRE House, 3 Renshaw Place, Eurocentral, North Lanarkshire, ML1 4UF

Objectives

4.1 The objects of the Company are (i) the relief of those in need by reason of ill-health, disability or other disadvantage. (ii) the advancement of health. and (iii) the advancement of citizenship and community development through the promotion of the effectiveness or efficiency of charities. and in furtherance of those objects but not otherwise:- (a) to support and promote the interests and welfare of people with learning disabilities or communication difficulties, physical disabilities, hearing and visual impairment, or other illness and disability, including working to meet their needs, development their capabilities and enable and encourage them to participate in decisions affecting any area of their lives. (b) to promote mutual help, support, co-operation and understanding amongst people with all forms of illness and disability, and their relatives and friends and those providing services to them. (c) to promote and encourage the provision of services and facilities for the benefit of people with all forms of illness and disability, their families and carers including the provision of special forms of housing and residential care and support to beneficiaries (in particular amongst those who have more profound disabilities). (d) to encourage research into the causes, treatment and management of all kinds of illness and disability and to disseminate the useful results of such research. (e) to provide support and companionship to enable beneficiaries to pursue their interests and take part in leisure activities. (f) to create and deliver personalised, community based support to adults and children.

Data Sources

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