Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 41 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £2,184,827 £3,044,269 £2,973,034 £3,786,806 £2,449,765
Donations & Legacies £15,103 £35,572 £16,962 £4,959 £16,279
Other Income £20,452 £24,106 £23,131 £10,386
Investment Income £105 £647 £1,058 £272 £3,284
Total income £2,220,487 £3,104,594 £3,014,185 £3,802,423 £3,167,677 £2,469,328
Charitable activities spending £2,086,857 £2,607,283 £3,259,908 £3,458,704 £2,584,314
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £2,086,857 £2,607,283 £3,259,908 £3,458,704 £3,264,834 £2,584,314
Surplus/deficit £133,630 £497,311 -£245,723 £343,719 -£97,157 -£114,986
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

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
Scottish Government - Children in Scotland Ltd
£70,520 17/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Children in Scotland Ltd
£6,940 15/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Children in Scotland
£74,100 27/11/2019
Museums and young people working in partnership
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Children In Scotland
£20,000 13/03/2018
24
250 children disadvantaged for a diverse range of reasons will "take over" BBC Scotland and design, produce and present a programme of TV, Radio and Online Content. It will increase ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Children in Scotland
£78,800 25/09/2017
A child-led heritage project: What does Scotland’s local and national cultural heritage mean to me?
National Lottery Community Fund - Pathfinder: Transforming Childcare in Scotland from the bottom up
£365,300 23/06/2016
35
This project seeks to test the recommendations of The Commission for Childcare Reform’s 2015 report, a longitudinal approach to transforming how childcare services in Scotland are organised, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Pathfinder: Transforming Childcare in Scotland from the bottom up
£24,839 17/11/2015
12
Pathfinder: Transforming Childcare in Scotland from the bottom up
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children in Scotland
£103,470 25/09/2008
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary for an early years' policy officer to make a lasting impact on Scottish early years policy, provision and practice.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (10)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 23-59
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/07/1983, number: SC003527
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/06/1983, number: SC083383
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Thorn House, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR

Objectives

3. The objectives for which the Association is established are:For the public benefit :- (i) to promote the welfare of children and their families and assist in the work of organisations and agencies concerned with the welfare and education of children and young people through preventing and relieving the poverty, distress or sickness of children, young people and their families, advancing their education, health, involvement in the arts and physical activities, and to pursue any other objectives for the welfare of children, young people and their families which are now or hereafter deemed by law to be charitable

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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