Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

MENSELF +

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Financial Data
Period ending 31/12/23
Total income £127,576
Total spending £127,576
Surplus/deficit £0
Established: 1 years
(8 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The saving of lives
  • 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: Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - EAST END RESILIENT MAN AND FAMILIES
£9,920 06/07/2023
5
To deliver a community health initiative in Glasgow that will aim to alleviate health and poverty related inequalities.
Foundation Scotland - ONE TO ONE SUPPORT WORKER
£9,876 19/01/2023
12
To contribute towards the salary costs of a part-time Support Worker for up to 15 hours per week to co-facilitate groupwork sessions, 1:1 support sessions with service users and to carry out ....more
Foundation Scotland - HELPING MEN BECOME BETTER MEN
£10,000 06/12/2022
12
To contribute towards delivering a programme of activities including health walks, 5-a-side football, and community garden activities.
Foundation Scotland - KICK IT
£4,960 02/11/2021
7
To fund the delivery of 24 weekly 5-a-side football sessions for men aged between 25 and 50.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to MENSELF +
£5,000 07/10/2020
3
To contribute towards sessional staff costs to continue to offer on line support sessions and activities to socially isolated men and their families, as well as offering socially distanced day trips, ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to MENSELF +
£4,975 17/06/2020
To provide 22 weeks of online men?s group activity sessions and yoga classes for men in Parkhead, Glasgow experiencing isolation and loneliness as a result of lockdown.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to MENSELF +
£4,970 09/12/2019
1
to contribute towards delivering 30 MOT 4 MEN sessions.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to MENSELF +
£1,700 28/10/2019
4
to contribute towards delivering Yoga sessions.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to MENSELF +
£8,400 08/10/2019
11
Award made to MENSELF + CIC
Foundation Scotland - Grant to MENSELF +
£2,000 11/04/2019
3
to contribute towards delivering 2 x MOT 4 MEN sessions at Ayr Racecource in May and the Royal Highland Centre in Ingleston in June.
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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: 35-61
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 05/06/2023, number: SC052592
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/12/2015, number: SC522651
Main office

112 CAROLINE STREET, PARKHEAD, GLASGOW, G31 5LP

Objectives

3.1 To promote the advancement of health of men (ages 14 years and upwards) through providing access to a non-clinical mobile health check-up service, access to information and other relevant services that will allow them to take responsibility for their own health and well-being, reduce reliance on substances and prevent the incidence of preventable diseases and injury. 3.2 To save lives of men (ages 14 years and upwards), by preventing premature death and suicide, by providing activities and access to relevant services. 3.3 The relief of need of people in the community by providing access to well-being activities, encouraging them to improve their health, lives and communities, bringing the community together reducing isolation and relieving poverty.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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