Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 8

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 10

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:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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:

There are 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

Established: 24 years

www.themillincharity.co.uk

admin@themillincharity.co.uk

01912725115

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£224	£238	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22	£199	£211	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21	£156	£168	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20	£181	£166	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/19	£195	£184	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18	£190	£219	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£242	£222	£21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£185	£210	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£240	£225	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£106	£163	£-57	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£263	£257	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£263	£249	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£289	£216	£73	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£29	£172	£-143	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£137	£142	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£149	£124	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£104	£113	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£141	£116	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£108	£111	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£192	£178	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training

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 works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
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 ....more 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 deprived wards of Gateshead. The project aims to help women gain the confidence and skills to not only achieve their goals but to improve their health and well-being financial understanding and situations connections and opportunities for a better quality of life.
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, ....more 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 bring to market a variety of products. To date the items that the collective have produced have been handmade. These items, whilst attractive, are labour intensive and impossible to create at scale. Although it had significant value as a community development activity it could not become a sustainable business.Through the funding WTC aims to develop into a commercially viable and sustainable social business with a range of design-led products that capture the spirit of WTC, each carrying the logo ?This Woman Means Business?.
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 â€˜go it ....more 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 â€˜go it aloneâ€™ and become economically independent. Six unique accredited enterprise based level one and two training courses will be introduced to help women develop their skills through workshops and mentoring support.
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 ....more 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 to suit their needs with courses through the week and various outreach activities on weekends and midweek at later times.
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 ....more 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 ....more 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 employment whilst promoting health and wellbeing.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-63

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

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