Overall GiG Score: 29 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 17
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +17

WHO CARES? SCOTLAND 

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 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
Established: 14 years
(27 years as a company)
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
Charitable activities £3,982,033 £4,439,442 £4,535,360 £4,831,081 £4,507,002
Donations & Legacies £98,911 £236,529 £311,802 £372,767 £92,377
Other Income £515
Investment Income
Total income £4,080,944 £4,675,971 £4,847,162 £5,204,363 £5,221,611 £4,599,379
Charitable activities spending £3,903,327 £4,476,876 £4,677,016 £4,708,178 £4,572,711
Fundraising costs 3% 3% 3% 4% 3% 2%
Other spending
Total spending £4,013,896 £4,628,853 £4,841,097 £4,893,371 £4,607,966 £4,675,561
Surplus/deficit £67,048 £47,118 £6,065 £310,992 £613,645 -£76,182
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
Purposes
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • The promotion of equality and diversity
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City

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
Esmee Fairbairn£448,500
National Lottery Community Fund£314,184
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£190,000
John Ellerman Foundation£118,656
William Grant Foundation£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Community Our Voice Our Future
£100,000 18/07/2023
The project will continue to engage with care experienced people ensuring that their voices are heard and they feel supported and empowered to influence decisions. This includes enabling participants ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Five Nations One Voice
£150,000 17/07/2023
Who Cares? Scotland supports care experienced people to have their voice heard. The Five Nations, One Voice Alliance is a partnership between charities working to promote the rights, strengthen the ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Who Cares? Scotland
£210,000 05/07/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to implement its new strategy in pursuit of a lifetime of equality, respect and love for Care Experienced people
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Who Cares? Scotand
£6,000 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
National Lottery Community Fund - Care to Connect
£194,974 15/02/2022
This group will use the funding to improve the lives of children and young people with experience of the care system. Following a successful pilot across Renfrewshire in partnership with the STV ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Care to Connect
£10,000 12/10/2021
This group will use the funding to deliver activities for care-experienced young people in Renfrewshire.
CareTech foundation - Match Funding Grant
£140 15/09/2021
Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 19/08/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Comic Relief - Who Cares? Scotland Recovery Funding
£29,918 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£24,496 20/05/2020
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
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Who Cares? Scotland
£17,500 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
William Grant Foundation - Coronavirus Assistance
£30,000 16/04/2020
12
Unrestricted funding to assist the charity during the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis. Keywords: Care experienced, young people, advocacy.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 03/04/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Who Cares? Scotland
£20,000 01/04/2020
6
Towards an extra support grant for Who Cares? Scotland to support the care experienced community during the COVID-19 crisis.
John Ellerman Foundation - Salary costs for a Policy and Participation Officer, and associated costs to embed a national engagement program with our members
£118,656 26/03/2020
36
Salary costs for a Policy and Participation Officer, and associated costs to embed a national engagement program with our members
William Grant Foundation - Coronavirus Assistance
£20,000 25/03/2020
6
To support the charity's First Responders for Care Experienced People initiative, supporting people in the care system or with experience of it in Scotland during the Covid-19 crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - care 2 camp
£9,210 19/03/2020
5
This group will use the funding to take around 150 care-experienced young people to their annual summer camp in Perthshire.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Who Cares? Scotland
£195,000 26/02/2020
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to support the organisation to deliver transformational change for care experienced young people.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - 40 Years of Us
£65,000 04/03/2019
The project will bring all the knowledge, experience and evidence gathered in 40 years of Who Cares? Scotland, to 35 Care Experienced people known as the Collective, in order to seed an empowered and ....more
Comic Relief - Reaching Higher Plus
£145,343 25/09/2018
18
The project will elevate the Reaching Higher programme by supporting Care Experienced (CE) employees in the North of Scotland. In addition, it will help Care Experienced people secure progression ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Backbone grants 2018/19 - supporting a thriving civil society
£175,000 21/09/2018
60
Who Cares? Scotland works with children and young people with experience of the care system in Scotland to help them to speak out and access the rights to which they are entitled. The organisation ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 5 Nations, 1 Voice
£44,540 13/09/2018
3
5 Nations, 1 Voice
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Working Together For Children In Care
£5,000 27/06/2018
Who Cares? Scotland and Clan Childlaw are organisations which focus on upholding and improving the rights of care experienced children and young people. A scoping exercise to establish whether a ....more
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - A lifetime of love
£26,600 30/05/2018
A lifetime of Equality, Respect and Love for care experienced people. To be able to offer meaningful group work activities and routes to connect members with each other and the organization. The role ....more
Robertson Trust - Reaching Higher Training Programme
£30,000 30/04/2018
Reaching Higher Training Programme
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Supporting 1000 Voices and 'Root and Branch' review in Scotland
£60,000 10/07/2017
24
Who Cares? Scotland supports the voice of care experienced people across Scotland through individual advocacy support, group participation activities and campaigning. A new Director of Operations ....more
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Connecting Scotland's care experienced children
£31,875 25/05/2016
Who Cares? Scotland will work across the country to support, connect and unite vulnerable care experienced children. They will offer them engaging opportunities to participate in and creating lasting ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Who Cares? Scotland
£45,000 04/02/2016
36
over three years towards the salary of the CEO to support joint work with Voice of Young People in Care in Northern Ireland focusing on the development of the Care Identity Strategy
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Who Cares? Scotland
£89,955 02/09/2015
36
Towards salary and other costs for activities to amplify the voice of those who have been in care to challenge the care system and raise the profile of its failings and successes.
Comic Relief - Reaching Higher: Employability Programme for Care Experienced Young People
£399,237 15/07/2015
48
Who Cares? Scotland (WC?S) in partnership with Move On and Venture Trust wish to deliver a bespoke training and employability programme, specifically designed around the needs of care experienced ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 5 Nations, 1 Voice
£499,745 13/07/2015
36
Who Cares? Scotland will lead a partnership bringing together leading advocacy groups for young people with experiences of being in care in the UK and Ireland. They will develop joint strategy and ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (10)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 27-66
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/12/2009, number: SC026076
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/03/1997, number: SC173232
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

40 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6HJ

Objectives

The company’s objects are: a. To deliver high quality independent advocacy, children's rights and participation support to Care Experienced people, who are (or have been) looked after, subject to formal processes and structures or care leavers, working with them to ensure their rights are realised and their achievements recognised. We will also provide independent advocacy for children and young people subject to formal processes, such as child protection processes. In addition to this we will provide independent advocacy for the brothers and sisters of children and young people subject to the children’s hearings system’s processes. b. To enable Care Experienced people, but not exclusively, who are looked after or subject to formal processes and structures, and care leavers, to speak out, campaign for change and reach their potential. c. To provide relief to Care Experienced people by helping them to access information and advice, signposting them to other organisations who can help, and where needed, practical assistance.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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