Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +9

    START-UP STIRLING 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • 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
    Established: 20 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    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 £194,582 £51,518
    Donations & Legacies £89,288 £245,440 £420,589
    Other Income £202,307 £877
    Investment Income
    Total income £283,870 £195,468 £223,908 £499,265 £471,036 £421,466
    Charitable activities spending £252,784 £247,255 £354,850
    Fundraising costs 4% 9% 0% 1%
    Other spending
    Total spending £264,230 £261,168 £205,896 £275,255 £319,282 £358,404
    Surplus/deficit £19,640 -£65,700 £18,012 £224,010 £151,754 £63,062
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems','Other defined groups
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Stirling

    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
    National Lottery Community Fund£130,000
    Scottish Government£46,925
    Foundation Scotland£14,958
    DCMS£4,958
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Community Fund - TRUST (Tackling Rural Isolation in Stirling)
    £120,000 06/07/2023
    The group will use the funding to work in partnership with Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau to provide support and advice to people affected by hardship and isolation in rural Stirling. ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - GROW Stirling
    £10,000 07/12/2021
    The group will use the funding to develop a community food growing project.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Start-Up Stirling SCIO
    £5,000 24/06/2021
    To contribute to the salary and employer?s NI contributions of their Food Crisis Worker for one year.
    Scottish Government - Start-Up Stirling
    £24,925 11/11/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £4,958 02/09/2020
    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
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Start-Up Stirling SCIO
    £4,958 02/09/2020
    To contribute to the purchase of a new chiller system for a Crisis Food Support Service by replacing a broken chiller unit and extend their capacity to store donated fresh food items, which will be ....more
    Scottish Government - Start-Up Stirling
    £20,000 22/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Scottish Government - Start-Up Stirling
    £2,000 05/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Start-Up Stirling SCIO
    £5,000 29/03/2020
    to purchase more food and cover the increase in fuel costs to provide a weekly home delivery only for at least 120 families in Stirling..
    Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Warehouse Manager and warehouse rental
    £39,000 19/09/2017
    The salary costs of the Warehouse Manager and warehouse rental
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    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 15/03/2004, number: SC035477
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 06 March 2014 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by SC035477 Start-Up Stirling, which was an unincorporated association registered as a charity since 15 March 2004
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    16B Whitehouse Road, Springkerse Industrial Estate, Stirling, FK7 7SP

    Objectives

    The organisation’s purposes are: The relief of poverty. The prevention or relief of suffering and distress caused by poverty through the compassionate provision of food and other practical support and services required by the communities we serve in the Stirling Council area, working in partnership with other regional agencies while maintaining the dignity of our beneficiaries.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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