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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

WEST LOTHIAN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/22 31/03/23
Total income £61,600 £56,600
Total spending £54,282 £49,701
Surplus/deficit £7,318 £6,899
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Established: 4 years
(10 years as a company)

www.wlsen.org.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: West Lothian
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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: 35-46
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/02/2021, number: SC050766
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/06/2014, number: SC479215
Main office

Polbeth Community Hub, Polbeth Village Hall , Polbeth, West Calder, EHH55 8SD

Objectives

a. to advance community development, by promoting the Social Enterprise sector and the effectiveness and efficiency of organisations working within it, and to provide opportunities for social enterprises to grow their businesses, providing support to enterprising third sector organisations or individuals who are working to develop social enterprises. b. to advance education by providing opportunities for social enterprises to learn how to run their businesses better including - but without limitation - by facilitating action learning and the exchange of information and other stakeholders to advance the awareness of social enterprise development.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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