Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +1
    Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

    MIDDLEFIELD COMMUNITY PROJECT SCIO 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
    • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
    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 £351,987 £313,345 £685,483 £701,318 £85,991
    Donations & Legacies £275,644 £282,488 £953 £450
    Other Income £52,887 £50,084 £47,728 £85,529
    Investment Income £27 £891 £881 £99 £1,419
    Total income £730,832 £707,616 £792,227 £800,634 £849,458 £788,051
    Charitable activities spending £643,905 £714,215 £709,740 £717,162 £848,585
    Fundraising costs 3% 3% 1% 2% 3%
    Other spending £2,436 £546 £3,485
    Total spending £643,905 £737,262 £732,396 £728,595 £850,094 £869,404
    Surplus/deficit £86,927 -£29,646 £59,831 £72,039 -£636 -£81,353
    Established: 36 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Community services
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
    Where it operates
    • Aberdeen
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    Who supports 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
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £2,917 24/05/2020
    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - MCP Under 11s Branching Out Project
    £6,200 22/02/2017
    12
    This group operate holiday play schemes and after school clubs for children under 11 years. The funding will provide a new 40 week programme of day and evening activities.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/10/1988, number: SC018759
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 24 March 2016 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by SC018759 - Middlefield Community Project, which was an unincorporated association registered as a charity since 11 October 1988.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    , AB16 7UR

    Objectives

    The aims of the Project shall be promote the benefit of the Middlefield Community and its environs by associating the local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and provide facilities in the interests of Social Welfare for recreation and leisure-time activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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