Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 11
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

MAKING MIRACLES 

Provision of professional counselling services and other informal support services for trauma or baby loss in order to reduce mental health issues and improve emotional wellbeing for themselves and their families. Promote volunteering in the wider community engaging them in a range of fulfilling opportunities to raise funds to support our services and promote their own personal wellbeing.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£248£232£15n/an/an/an/an/a200
30/06/22£204£177£27n/an/an/an/an/a145
30/06/21£261£154£107n/an/an/an/an/a80
30/06/20£201£143£58n/an/an/an/an/a80
30/06/19£215£154£62n/an/an/an/an/a50
30/06/18£190£131£59£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£160£118£42£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£192£146£46£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£52£10£41£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 10 years

www.makingmiracles.org.uk

sally@makingmiracles.org.uk

01622735230

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 200 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
DCMS£47,480
Co-Operative Group£33,069
National Lottery Community Fund£17,715
Henry Smith Charity£17,500
BBC Children in Need£16,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£3,841 21/10/2023
To provide professional trauma and bereavement counselling to local families who have lost a baby, including siblings and grandparents.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Making Miracles
£17,500 21/09/2023
24
towards two years' running costs of the 'Knit and Natter' project providing support for isolated older people across Medway and Kent.
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping to Heal
£9,950 10/03/2023
The funding will be used to evaluate the project's impact it has on families and look to find improvements. The project aims to support families who have lost a baby during childbirth.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£4,248 22/10/2022
We provide professional trauma and bereavement counselling to local families who have lost a baby. This will help mental health and provide the support they need.
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-Making Miracles
£2,000 22/06/2022
Towards programme costs to provide free bereavement/trauma counselling and other support services at Village Halls for families affected by baby loss, including miscarriage.
National Lottery Community Fund - Pods and well being from Making Miracles
£7,765 25/02/2022
The funding will be used to develop a series of podcasts focusing on issues around baby loss. The podcasts will provide support and advice and serve as a tool to bring distressed parents together in ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£4,137 23/10/2021
We'd like to have capacity to develop more local voluntary groups in our communities; making crafts for stalls and raising funds for bereavement services for families who are suffering.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£2,923 23/10/2021
We will provide professional trauma and bereavement counselling to local families who have lost a baby. This will help with mental health and provide the support they need.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£1,867 23/10/2021
We would provide professional trauma and bereavement counselling to local families who have lost a baby. This would help with mental health and provide the support they need.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£1,131 23/10/2021
We will provide professional trauma and bereavement counselling to local families who have lost a baby. This will help with mental health and provide the support they need.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£1,694 23/10/2021
We will provide professional trauma and bereavement counselling to local families who have lost a baby. This will help with mental health and provide the support they need.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Making Miracles
£16,000 30/11/2020
This project will deliver bereavement play therapy and counselling to children and young people affected by a bereavement related to COVID-19. It aims to help children understand loss, improve family ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£2,580 24/10/2020
We would like to provide a professional counselling service for families who have suffered trauma and lost babies.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£3,765 24/10/2020
We provide a professional trauma and bereavement counselling service for families, which includes parents, siblings and grandparents.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£47,480 25/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£6,883 15/11/2019
We want to develop and improve our beautiful baby memorial garden for parents, siblings and grandparent's to enjoy.
National Lottery Community Fund - Making Miracles - Medway and Ashford
£316,342 30/08/2018
60
Making Miracles provides a support service for women experiencing high risk pregnancies, through professional counselling, trauma & bereavement care and an in-house support team. The organisation ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Kent Seniors Making Miracles
£10,000 10/01/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to help create community ‘knit and natter’ groups to help support women in pregnancy.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£4,880 29/11/2017
Funding will extend our support services for parents and family, providing emotional stability, confidence and improving mental health
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Making Miracles
£4,697 04/08/2017
It will extend our support services for parents and extended family providing emotional stability, confidence and improving mental health
National Lottery Community Fund - Making Miracles Community Project
£317,451 18/05/2015
36
Thisproject is based on the existing work delivered by Making Miracles (MM) across Medway. The project will build on an existing weekly static stall at Medway hospital which provides low cost ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/08/2014, number: 1158233
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/04/2014, number: 08994484
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; all on time
Main office

7 The Street
Detling
MAIDSTONE
ME14 3JU

Objectives

To provide members of the public professional bereavement and trauma counselling and other informal and formal support services and resources in order to reduce mental health issues and improve emotional well being for themselves and their families as needed in the UK.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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