Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

COUNCIL OF ETHNIC MINORITY VOLUNTARY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS - SCOTLAND 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several 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
Established: 21 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
Charitable activities £81,481 £88,684 £44,450 £41,950 £40,835 £36,666
Donations & Legacies £495,302 £460,142 £423,486 £473,852 £500,843 £810,523
Other Income £26,771 £23,328 £27,178
Investment Income
Total income £603,554 £572,154 £495,114 £515,802 £541,678 £847,189
Charitable activities spending £663,552 £572,863 £502,954 £455,769 £483,183 £721,602
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £663,552 £572,863 £502,954 £455,769 £483,183 £721,602
Surplus/deficit -£59,998 -£709 -£7,840 £60,033 £58,495 £125,587
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

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
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£328,095
National Lottery Community Fund£132,299
Scottish Government£13,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Funding Capacity
£132,299 30/03/2022
The organisation will use this three year funding to provide funding capacity support to 60 Ethnic Minority (EM) voluntary organisations through delivery of an EM funding programme involving delivery ....more
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to CEMVO Scotland
£222,095 19/03/2022
Ethnic Minority Environment Network
Scottish Government - The Council Of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations - Scotland
£13,500 15/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to CEMVO Scotland
£106,000 12/07/2019
36
Ethnic Minority Environment Network
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to CEMVO Scotland
£60,000 18/03/2017
24
Ethnic Minority Environmental Network
National Lottery Community Fund - E(thnic)M(inority)powering Women
£385,773 18/05/2016
48
This project will provide opportunities and life skills to vulnerable, disadvantaged and hard to reach ethnic minority women in Glasgow, South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire. The project will ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 22-80
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/01/2003, number: SC034104
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/01/2003, number: SC242215
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Lancefield House, G3 8HZ

Objectives

To promote such-objects as are now or may hereafter be deemed b y law to be charitable and, in particular for the relief of poverty- and of the needs of aged, disabled and black and minority ethnic people. For the advancement of education and for other purposes. beneficial to the community in the interests of social welfare

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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