Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

STARLING 

Starling provide creative projects for, by and with neurodiverse young people
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers 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: 5 years

starlingcio.org

info@starlingcio.org.uk

07960781554

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£202,555£193,562£8,99315
31/03/22£144,168£111,441£32,72715
31/03/21£103,935£56,294£47,64115
31/03/20£19,940£8,415£11,5254
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 15 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£150,518
Youth Music£149,924
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment£34,910
BBC Children in Need£30,452
DCMS£17,575
Forever Manchester£8,728
Sport England£6,360
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Minds
£130,918 17/09/2023
The funding will support Starling CIO to continue to deliver its ‘Creative Minds’ project in Tameside. It will focus on a programme of creative wellbeing and arts workshops to reduce isolation ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Garden Project
£10,000 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to provide young people with neurodivergent challenges and their families with garden activities and advice on available support in response to the cost of living crisis. ....more
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Doodle Dancing - Old Trafford
£6,360 21/10/2022
This project will support neurodivergent young people (aged 13-18) living in deprived areas of Old Trafford to increase physical activity levels and improve mental wellbeing through collaborative ....more
Youth Music - Neurobeats
£120,000 12/10/2022
Neurobeats
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Everyday Heritage: Fault Lines
£5,000 11/10/2022
Fault Lines is a creative heritage project documenting the rich histories of working class communities in the area of Ordsall in Salford, Greater Manchester.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Starling
£30,452 31/01/2022
This project will provide wellbeing activities and 1-2-1 support in the school holidays for neurodivergent young people in Manchester. It will aim to reduce social isolation, increase positive ....more
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - Creative Minds
£24,952 18/10/2021
The Creative Minds Project will provide 35 neurodivergent young people aged 13-25 living in Trafford with weekly creative wellbeing activities and 1-2-1 support in order to reduce social isolation, ....more
Forever Manchester - Neurodiversity Champions
£1,000 28/05/2021
Activities and workshops for young neurodivergent people
National Lottery Community Fund - The Recovery Toolkit
£9,600 14/05/2021
The project will offer 30 neurodivergent young people a range of creative wellbeing activities to reduce social isolation increase positive mental health and wellbeing and develop support networks. ....more
Forever Manchester - Online Peer Support Service
£5,000 24/09/2020
Mental health support and peer mentor training
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 24/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,575 25/08/2020
"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
Trafford Housing Trust Social Investment - The Gather Project
£9,958 24/07/2020
The Gather Project will provide 25 neurodiverse young people aged 13-25 living in Trafford with a weekly creative wellbeing group (delivered both online and face-to-face) to reduce social isolation, ....more
Youth Music - NeuroBeats
£29,924 02/07/2020
NeuroBeats
Forever Manchester - Online Creative Wellbeing Service
£2,728 22/05/2020
Online wellbeing service for neurodiverse young people
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/03/2019, number: 1182361
Gift Aid
  • NOT 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
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

WDC Creative
14 Little Lever Street
MANCHESTER
M1 1HR

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN THE UK BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;(D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS;(E) PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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