Overall GiG Score: -9 ?
Finance Score: -12
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +3

    HOME-START MID ARGYLL, JURA, ISLAY & KINTYRE SUBJECT TO INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS  

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 3 years
    • This charity appears to be dormant
    Established: 29 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    This Charity appears to be dormant
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/17 31/03/18 31/03/19
    Total income £114,028 £84,312 £94,343
    Total spending £110,620 £108,824 £89,885
    Surplus/deficit £3,408 -£24,512 £4,458
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of health
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Argyll And Bute
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    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
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start MAJIK
    £4,970 19/11/2018
    We want to recruit qualified specialist play leaders to provide intensive 1:1 specialist support sessions to vulnerable families in Cowal.
    Robertson Trust - Running Costs
    £30,000 30/07/2018
    Running Costs
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Home-Start Family Support
    £15,000 21/02/2018
    MAJIK will provide support to complex families in each area and will liaise with Statutory services ensuring each child is free from fear, harm and neglect. Continuing to work at a Strategic level to ....more
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Home-Start MAJIK
    £3,202 29/11/2017
    Volunteer training will help us make a further difference to families with children in Argyll and Bute.
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Home Start MAJIK
    £20,000 27/05/2015
    Weekly support for 2-3 hours, parents & children in situations as diverse as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability, mental/physical and emotional abuse or who are just ....more
    Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Thrive in the digital world & reduce isolation
    £7,500 05/12/2014
    Embedding awareness raising and skills development into regular working practices so that everyone that Homestart Majik works with across the rural communities of Argyll and Bute. The project will ....more

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    Filing Record
    3 returns made; AR19: 283 days late, AR18: 18 days late,
    Main office

    Abercorn House , 79 Renfrew Road , Paisley , PA3 4DA

    Objectives

    a) To safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical of children and parents of children b) To prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children c) To relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents of children d) To promote the education of the public in better standards of child care

    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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