Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

LITTLE MIRACLES CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION 

Emotional and practical support for families that have children with additional needs, disabilities and life limiting conditions.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 9 years

www.littlemiraclescharity.org.uk

michelle@littlemiraclescharity.org.uk

01733262226

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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
31/03/23£590£621£-31£65£237£1763.435698
31/03/22£335£393£-58n/an/an/an/an/a698
31/03/21£507£366£141£75£326£2377.825504
31/03/20£395£381£14n/an/an/an/an/a382
31/03/19£412£499£-87n/an/an/an/an/a316
31/03/18£610£545£65£122£258£1393.1220
31/03/17*£355£311£44£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16*£349£273£76£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 13.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 41%
Liabilities/Income: 28%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 74%
Reserves/Spending: 3.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Peterborough City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 35 employees
  • 698 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
National Lottery Community Fund£49,191
DCMS£38,712
BBC Children in Need£30,500
The Clothworkers Foundation£6,900
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The MSE Charity - Grant to Little Miracles CIO
£3,879 29/03/2024
Funding the delivery of an ASDAN short personal finance course to young people with with autism and learning disabilites alongside their parents and carers, supporting over 70 people.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Little Miracles Charity
£2,489 22/10/2022
This project will fund adapted activities and opportunities for disabled children, in order to further expand and develop their education, social skills and wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Welcome to Little Miracles
£9,912 17/06/2022
The funding will be used to continue the employment of an administrator. The project aims to meet increased demand on the organisation and improve the service they provide to families of children ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - CommunityActivities and Family Support for Disabled Children in Ramsey
£9,862 10/06/2022
The funding will be used to run a 2-hour weekly family free play session for families who have children (0-25) with additional needs disabilities and life-limiting conditions and a weekday coffee ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Little Miracles Charitable Incorporated Organisation
£30,500 31/01/2022
This project will deliver play sessions children and young people experiencing SEND in Peterborough. The activities will result in improve social skills, emotionally well and improved life skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Peterborough Receptionist
£10,000 23/04/2021
The funding will be used to employ an administrator to meet increased demand on the organisation and improve the service it provides to families of children with disabilities and other additional ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Local support for families with disabled children around Ramsey Cambridgeshire
£9,948 05/03/2021
12
The funding will help increase capacity to cope with the additional demand for services during the pandemic for a charity that supports families with children with additional needs.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Little Miracles
£2,000 06/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£38,712 09/09/2020
"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
CAF - Grant to Little Miracles Charitable Incorporated Organisation
£5,776 01/05/2020
3
Grant to Little Miracles Charitable Incorporated Organisation to support the organisation through COVID19
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Little Miracles
£6,900 13/03/2020
referbishment of outdoors area for a charity that works with children with disabilities in Cambridgeshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Security, rent and volunteer costs
£9,469 02/05/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to install a new security system and cover rent for the building in order to continue providing support for families with children with disabilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Family Support for Children with Disabilites
£9,945 17/01/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to employ a family support worker to help run new sessions for families who have children affected by disabilities, additional needs and life limiting conditions.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Little Miracles
£41,000 27/11/2018
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the salary of a network manager for a charity supporting families where children have disabilities or life-limiting conditions, across the East of ....more
Sport England - Family sports
£120,275 07/06/2018
48
Funding under Sport England's Families Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Family sports. This project is a Multi-Skill Coaching project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to LITTLE MIRACLES CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
£2,983 04/08/2017
Our work with children who have autism and additional needs helps them improve their social skills and supports the carers around them.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Little Miracles Charitable Incorporated Organisation
£75,690 11/10/2016
36
This project will provide inclusive activities for disabled children in Peterborough. Through the provision of a range of activities tailored to each child's needs, the children will develop ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Little Miracles
£68,000 30/03/2016
24
over two years towards salaries, plus a contribution towards a new database system, for a charity based in Peterborough which supports families where children have disabilities and life-limiting ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - A4A - Feet on the Ramsey Rainbow
£10,000 29/07/2015
12
A project to purchase additional equipment such as sensory items, toys suitable for older children and IT resources. This will enable the group to accommodate increasing support queries from parents ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/01/2015, number: 1160178
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investing charity funds 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
8 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 15 days late,
Main office

Little Miracles
Hartwell Way
PETERBOROUGH
PE3 7LE

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR LIFE LIMITING CONDITIONS AND/OR ADDITIONAL NEEDS, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF DROP IN SESSIONS, INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT ON ALL ASPECTS OF CARING FOR A CHILD OR YOUNG ADULT WITH SUCH CONDITIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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