Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 10
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

THE MILLIN CHARITY

To reduce inequalities, alleviate poverty and increase opportunities and wellbeing for the local communities; To provide Community Training programmes, capacity building, skills development, accredited courses, workshops, advice and guidance and enterprise opportunities to enable people to overcome barriers and improve financial, economic and social independence.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£224£238£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£199£211£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£156£168£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£181£166£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£195£184£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£190£219£-29n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£242£222£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£185£210£-25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£240£225£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£106£163£-57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£263£257£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£263£249£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£289£216£73n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£29£172£-143n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£137£142£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£149£124£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£104£113£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£141£116£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£108£111£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£192£178£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 25 years

www.themillincharity.co.uk

admin@themillincharity.co.uk

01912725115

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Practical support, advice & companionship
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£178,032
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£64,907
Smallwood Trust£59,907
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Smallwood Trust - Protecting frontline services for women 18+
£59,907 25/04/2024
36
Frontline organisations led by women, to protect essential services for women most impacted by the cost-of-living-crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - Together We Can at the Women's Enterprise Hubs
£178,032 17/05/2023
This funding will be used to deliver the Together We Can Project which helps support local women facing the effects of poverty; marginalisation; isolation and the ongoing effects of the pandemic and subsequent cost of living crisis within the most ....more
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to The Millin Charity
£10,000 30/03/2023
Cost of living grant for core costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting BAME women living in Newcastle upon Tyne during the Covid-19 pandemic
£10,000 26/06/2020
Supporting BAME women living in Newcastle upon Tyne during the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting BAME women living in Newcastle upon Tyne during the Covid-19 pandemic
£10,000 26/06/2020
supporting BAME women living in Newcastle upon Tyne during the Covid-19 pandemic
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Costs for 'Local Women Local Enterprise' programmes for Gateshead women
£15,000 06/03/2020
Costs for 'Local Women Local Enterprise' programmes for Gateshead women
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting increased sustainability and capacity to deliver Local Women Local Enterprise in Gateshead
£24,987 14/02/2020
Supporting increased sustainability and capacity to deliver Local Women Local Enterprise in Gateshead
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Providing accredited training courses to economically inactive women from the West End of Newcastle
£4,920 22/01/2020
Providing accredited training courses to economically inactive women from the West End of Newcastle
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - For work with people experiencing poverty and disadvantage
£5,000 12/03/2019
For work with people experiencing poverty and disadvantage
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 07/03/2019
The Millin Charity Core Fund
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Local Women Local Enterprise Gateshead
£9,923 20/02/2018
Local Women Local Enterprise Gateshead
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Local Women Local Enterprise Gateshead
£9,923 20/02/2018
Local Women Local Enterprise Gateshead
DCMS - Virgin Money Foundation North East Fund
£27,000 14/02/2018
The Millin Charity (MC) is a community development organisation based in the West of Newcastle. MC host and support the Women?s Trading Collective (WTC) which operates through the collective, voluntary efforts of its members to design, produce and ....more
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to The Millin Charity
£27,000 12/02/2018
12
Grant to enable The Millin Charity to develop into a commercially viable and sustainable social business with a range of design-led products each carrying the logo ‘This Woman Means Business’.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Womens Trading Collective
£212,498 22/02/2017
36
The aim of the project is to provide a safe, supported route for disadvantaged women to explore, understand and experience self-employment so that they are capable and confident to ‘go it alone’ and become economically independent. Six ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Local Women Local Enterprise
£356,535 18/12/2013
36
This project aims to develop enterprising behaviour and develop the skills and knowledge of disadvantaged local women. The project will be delivered from The Millin Centre and will be free of charge to beneficiaries and delivered at a range of times ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Millin Centre
£15,900 28/06/2013
The Millin Centre operates as a community hub located as it is in the heart of Newcastle where the BME, but principally Asian families live, offering a host of services and activities designed especially for that community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Millin Centre
£482,629 11/02/2010
36
Funding for the Millin Centre in Benwell to continue and expand the services offered. The centre offers a range of training, education, volunteering and recreational opportunities with a focus on assisting beneficiaries into further education and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 35-64
  • DINAH ELIZABETH BENNETT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Director Consultants For Entrepreneurship
  • HANNAH LAYFORD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • KERREY BAKER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Head Of Member Engagement
  • YASMIN SULTANA KHAN BA HONS (Chair), Occupation: Strategic Health Support Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/04/2000, number: 1080402
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/11/1999, number: 03884975
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

30-37 Greenesfield Business Centre
Mulgrave Terrace
GATESHEAD
Tyne And Wear
NE8 1PQ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF PRIMARILY BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RESIDENTS OF NORTH BENWELL, THE WEST END OF NEWCASTLE, AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE COUNTIES OF TYNE AND WEAR, COUNTY DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND, FACING SIMILAR DEPRIVATION, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ANY UNDER-REPRESENTED AND MARGINALISED GROUPS INCLUDING ETHNIC MINORITIES AND WOMEN, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS, THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND EDUCATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AND TO RELIEVE THE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF THOSE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.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; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORTH BENWELL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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