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Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

MARY'S MEALS 

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
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 30 years

www.marysmeals.org

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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Charitable activities
Donations & Legacies £15,895,199 £14,993,790 £16,198,578 £17,975,621
Other Income £95,472 £132,247 £8,004
Investment Income £7,388 £12,649 £5,157 £1,046 £15,060
Total income £18,324,944 £16,597,647 £15,713,209 £16,532,924 £18,437,053 £19,137,498
Charitable activities spending £16,709,363 £13,345,406 £15,062,292 £16,805,619 £17,150,946
Fundraising costs 5% 7% 9% 8% 8% 8%
Other spending
Total spending £16,519,257 £17,827,270 £14,717,721 £16,431,499 £18,260,140 £18,760,528
Surplus/deficit £1,805,687 -£1,229,623 £995,488 £101,425 £176,913 £376,970
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','the saving of lives','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older 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
Foundation Scotland£203,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£200,000
The Bishop Radford Trust£35,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£200 24/11/2023
Anonymous donation from Foundation Scotland Donor
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£30,000 07/11/2023
Donation from Gavin Gemmell Fund
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£20,000 21/02/2023
Donation from Make Fund
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£250 20/02/2023
Anonymous donation from Foundation Scotland Donor
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£25,000 15/09/2022
Donation from Gavin Gemmell Fund
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Marys Meals
£20,000 07/07/2022
Christian charity supporting some of the poorest communities in the world, namely providing school meals in Malawi. This grant was towards their December match funding campaign.
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Marys Meals
£10,000 29/05/2022
Grant towards their December match funding campaign.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£20,000 01/04/2022
To be split between work in Syria and Yemen. From the Make Trust.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£50 12/02/2022
For the South Sudan Appeal. From Irene Schofield
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£250 18/01/2022
Anonymous donation
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£15,000 13/12/2021
Ongoing costs, not capital projects. From the Make Trust.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£30,000 02/11/2021
Donation from Gavin Gammell. Double It.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£25,000 21/01/2021
Donation from Gavin Gemmell. Government Double
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£1,500 14/12/2020
Donation from Millar Mathieson
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Marys Meals
£5,000 06/11/2020
Supporting school meals in Malawi. This grant in 2020 was towards their December match funding campaign.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£250 05/11/2020
Donation from anonymous client.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£25,000 04/11/2020
Double Love, from Gavin Gemmell
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£10,000 29/04/2020
General charitable donation from Gavin Gemmell
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mary's Meals
£500 07/01/2020
General charitable donation from anonymous donor.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£200,000 24/09/2019
School Feeding in Malawi and Zambia
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Marys Meals
£5,000 28/02/2019
Bishop Radford Trust support Marys meals global feeding programme, through the provision of a daily meal in a place of education.
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How is it governed?

Directors (9)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 31-67
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 24/11/1993, number: SC022140
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/04/2004, number: SC265941
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Craig Lodge, Dalmally, Argyll, PA33 1AR

Objectives

The Company's objects are: (i) (a) To provide a daily meal, in a place of education, for children in the world's poorest communities. (b) To provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises or poverty, to help people escape poverty and to provide care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children. (c) To raise awareness in the UK and worldwide of poverty issues through education

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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