Overall GiG Score: 16 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

ST ANDREWS CHILDRENS SOCIETY 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender 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: 32 years
(41 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
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 £1,164,150 £1,362,887 £1,431,759 £1,194,657 £1,083,609
Donations & Legacies £359,755 £373,789 £341,850 £217,461 £181,561
Other Income £11 £10,690 £2,605 £720
Investment Income £8,315 £9,601 £10,055 £10,661 £12,041
Total income £1,532,231 £1,756,967 £1,786,269 £1,423,499 £1,325,156 £1,277,211
Charitable activities spending £1,709,889 £1,761,886 £1,711,998 £1,431,889 £1,583,301
Fundraising costs 2% 2% 1% 2% 2% 2%
Other spending
Total spending £1,735,414 £1,788,177 £1,737,679 £1,459,317 £1,483,193 £1,612,861
Surplus/deficit -£203,183 -£31,210 £48,590 -£35,818 -£158,037 -£335,650
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Scotland and other parts of the UK, 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Scottish Government£97,005
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£30,000
Dulverton Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Adoption Support Service
£30,000 26/05/2021
Seeking a contribution to the annual cost of our adoption support budget for the 2021/22 & 2022/23 years.
Scottish Government - St Andrews Childrens Society
£75,000 14/04/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to St Andrew's Children's Society
£5,000 21/10/2020
to support St Andrew?s Children?s Society to purchase appropriate IT equipment to support staff to be able to work safely in the office, remotely and create online support and training materials
National Lottery Community Fund - IT Support for Adoption Support
£8,225 18/06/2020
2
This group will use the funding for laptops so that they can continue providing support for adoptive families foster carers and foster children during the COVID-19 crisis.
Scottish Government - St Andrews Childrens Society
£22,005 15/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to St Andrew's Children's Society
£1,875 22/04/2020
To support adopted children and their parents in Scotland remotely during COVID-19.
Dulverton Trust - Post-adoption support
£30,000 23/10/2019
Post-adoption support
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£45,000 18/06/2019
Adoption Support
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to St Andrew's Children's Society
£70,500 07/12/2017
24
towards two years' running costs of the 'Concurrent Care Project' which provides foster carers for newborn babies that cannot be safely left in the care of their birth parents
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Concurrent Care
£20,000 31/05/2017
Babies are placed with specially prepared foster parents, while support is given by our partner social services to help birth parents, who live unsuitably chaotic lifestyles, to be able to parent the ....more
Robertson Trust - Adoption Support Manager
£45,000 31/08/2016
Adoption Support Manager
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Concurrent Planning
£20,000 27/05/2015
Vulnerable children are temporarily placed with trained adoptive parents as fosterers. Social workers work with and support birth parents to be able to care for their child. Foster parents granted ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - St Andrew's Children's Society - New Adopters Marketing Campaign
£10,000 04/11/2014
12
Not Available
Dulverton Trust - Adoption Services in North-East Scotland
£40,000 11/06/2014
Adoption Services in North-East Scotland
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (9)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 48-71
  • HAMPTON, Anne
    Appointed: 2008
    Occupation: Independant Social Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 01/01/1992, number: SC005754
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/07/1982, number: SC079520
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 9 days late,
Main office

7 Johns Place, Edinburgh, EH6 7EL

Objectives

The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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