Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 7
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

POSITIVE HELP 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 33 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
Total income £270,542 £205,267 £245,942 £205,807 £204,094 £200,698
Total spending £224,739 £201,026 £192,037 £201,158 £203,192 £223,335
Surplus/deficit £45,803 £4,241 £53,905 £4,649 £902 -£22,637
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems

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
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£46,760
Foundation Scotland£24,734
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Study Buddies
£2,460 27/04/2023
To contribute towards delivering the Study Buddies service for children and young people.
Foundation Scotland - Study Buddies
£2,460 07/02/2023
To contribute towards delivering the Study Buddies service for children and young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 30/07/2021
Core Costs
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Positive Help
£14,814 24/06/2021
To help fund the Home Support and Phone Friends services through contributing towards the costs of the Adult Services Coordinator.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Positive Help
£5,000 21/10/2020
To purchase laptops for staff to support volunteers from home, who provide the ongoing support services to service users.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Study Buddies
£46,760 27/11/2019
Positive Help's Study Buddies supports children and young people (C&YP) living in families affected by HIV and/or Hepatitis C and drug dependency, who have experienced Adverse Childhood ....more
Corra Foundation - HDA-18/290
£4,000 07/06/2018
Towards the volunteer costs of the Supported Transport Service.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Children and Young People's Befriending Services
£15,000 30/05/2018
The service matches 3 to 18-year-olds, who are disadvantaged by being affected by HIV or Hepatitis C, with their own dedicated volunteer Befriender. A programme of activities supports them to develop ....more
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Positive Help
£28,598 14/02/2018
36
Study Buddies; mentors for disadvantaged girls for weekly one-to-one sessions
National Lottery Community Fund - Supportive Transport
£9,794 04/12/2017
12
This group support people living with the HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) viruses. The project will help the group to offer a volunteer-led supportive transport system allowing people to make vital ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Help's Home Support Service
£138,305 23/08/2017
60
This funding will be used to provide a home support service for people living with HIV or Hepatitis C, in Edinburgh and the Lothians. The organisation will provide practical and social assistance ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Positive Help
£115,869 14/06/2017
36
This befriending service works with young people living day to day with HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Through regular support from a befriender the young person will have fun, feel supported and have ....more
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/177
£5,000 08/06/2017
Towards the salary of the Volunteer Co-ordinator for the Home Support Service
Robertson Trust - Home Support Service
£37,500 23/05/2017
Home Support Service
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Positive Help Befriending Service
£12,722 25/05/2016
Befriending outings for children and young people affected by HIV and Hepatitis C who live in chaotic home environments and who are at risk of abuse/neglect. This service is a ‘protective factor’ ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Positive Help
£75,800 12/06/2014
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a home support service for individuals and families living with HIV and Hepatitis C in Edinburgh and the Lothians
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Positive Help
£81,567 01/02/2014
This befriending service works with young people living day to day with HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Through regular support from a befriender the young person will have fun feel supported and have ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 31-71
  • DE SOUZA, Raymond
    Appointed: 2007
    Occupation: Deputy Head, Nhsscotland Resilience Scottish Gov
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 19/11/1990, number: SC008382
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/10/1999, number: SC200481
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

First Floor, 139 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JY

Objectives

3. The Company’s objects are to try to help and/or relieve the suffering and distress of any of the following persons. (a) A person (a ‘sufferer’) whom the Company believes reasonably has been diagnosed at some time by a medically-qualified person to have one or more of the following – (i) HIV/AIDS. (ii) Hepatitis C. (iii) A disease, injury and/or illness related to having suffered HIV/AIDS and/or Hepatitis C. and who is in Edinburgh and/or the Lothians.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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