Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 24 ?

SISTEMA SCOTLAND 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • 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
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Established: 16 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/06/17 30/06/18 30/06/19 30/06/20 30/06/21 30/06/22 30/06/23
Charitable activities £250 £1,000 £420 £2,589 £300 £884
Donations & Legacies £3,143,992 £3,608,616 £3,739,472 £3,632,056 £5,147,841
Other Income
Investment Income £11,309 £4,698 £4,939 £1,558 £1,021 £23,075
Total income £2,656,108 £3,155,551 £3,614,314 £3,744,831 £3,636,203 £5,630,171 £5,171,800
Charitable activities spending £3,153,919 £3,400,848 £3,388,834 £3,289,493 £4,074,727 £4,779,973
Fundraising costs 4% 4% 4% 4% 3% 4%
Other spending
Total spending £2,549,949 £3,272,343 £3,528,361 £3,529,526 £3,436,798 £4,244,450 £4,960,534
Surplus/deficit £106,159 -£116,792 £85,953 £215,305 £199,405 £1,385,721 £211,266
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Stirling
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children or young people

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£361,250
National Lottery Community Fund£154,091
Garfield Weston Foundation£80,000
William Grant Foundation£60,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£1,000 06/12/2023
Unrestricted donation from the McCormack Fund.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Big Noise Wester Hailes
£1,600 21/10/2023
We'd like to support children in Wester Hailes reach their potential through our fun and engaging Big Noise orchestra programme.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£30,000 20/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£3,000 30/11/2022
Donation from Gavin Gemmell Fund
National Lottery Community Fund - Big Noise Govanhill - Sustaining Engagement for Positive Futures
£154,091 09/09/2022
This group will use the funding for to deliver their after-school music education and social change programme. The group will work with young people aged 11-17 years experiencing challenges in ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£300,000 07/07/2022
Towards unrestricted core costs to improve the lives of children and strengthen disadvantaged communities over the long term through Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise programmes
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£500 13/05/2022
Unrestricted donation from the Mary Janet King Fund
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£50 01/04/2022
Unrestricted donation from Judith Statt
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2022 - 2024
£60,000 23/11/2021
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Unrestricted funding over three years for this music and social change organisation, working with children living in disadvantaged communities.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£500 15/11/2021
Donation from the Mary Janet King Fund
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£50 01/10/2021
Donation from Judith Statt
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 30/07/2021
Big Noise: Improving lives and strengthening communities through music and nurturing relationships
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Sistema Scotland: supporting vulnerable children through music and nurturing relationships
£34,895 26/05/2021
Sistema Scotland's Big Noise Raploch programme will work with Priority Families in the community to reduce the risk of abuse and neglect. Children will be supported to improve their wellbeing, ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£500 06/05/2021
General charitable donation from the Mary Janet King Trust
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£50 01/04/2021
Donation from Judith Statt
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£2,000 21/02/2021
Donation from Gavin Gemmell
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£2,000 23/11/2020
Donation from Gavin Gemmell
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£500 05/11/2020
General charitable donation from the Mary Janet King Trust
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£50 01/10/2020
Donation from Judith Statt
Scottish Government - Sistema Scotland
£36,514 21/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sistema Scotland / Big Noise Raploch
£31,250 05/05/2020
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towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£500 04/05/2020
General charitable donation from the Mary Janet King Trust
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Sistema Scotland
£50 01/04/2020
General charitable donation from Judith Statt.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Evaluating the Big Noise programme
£40,000 26/02/2020
Sistema Scotland is on a mission to transform lives through music, working with some of our most disadvantaged children. This grant supports Sistema to evaluate the impact of their programme Big ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£40,000 18/06/2019
Sistema Scotland transforming lives through music: inclusive, intensive, long-term
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2019-21
£60,000 04/02/2019
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Unrestricted funding over three years.
Robertson Trust - Towards the salary costs of the Musicians and Support Workers for Big Noise Govanhill
£52,500 04/12/2018
Towards the salary costs of the Musicians and Support Workers for Big Noise Govanhill
National Lottery Community Fund - Big Noise: building resilience in children facing challenges
£75,598 19/07/2018
36
This group will use the funding to deliver their music sessions for children in Govanhill and Raploch. The project aim is to equip participants with confidence, ambition and transferable skills. ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sistema Scotland / Big Noise Raploch
£250,000 15/12/2016
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Towards core costs to increase the numbers of children benefiting from a programme using music as a vehicle for raising attainment, aspiration and improving behaviour.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Completing the evaluation of Big Noise Raploch
£50,000 18/07/2016
48
This application relates solely to the continued evaluation of Big Noise Raploch. Sistema Scotland wants to improve the quality and quantity of longitudinal evidence around their approach. The ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Expansion from pilot programme to multiple centres.
£200,000 25/09/2012
Continued core support to develop Big Noise Raploch further; help with the transition to an independant Local Authority-led funding model in Raploch; and open a new Big Noise centre in Govanhill ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sistema Scotland / Big Noise Raploch
£150,000 26/03/2009
36
Towards Unrestricted core costs Towards salaries and costs to develop children's orchestras in Raploch using Venezuela's El Sistema methodology.
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How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Directors: 45-68
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 03/01/2008, number: SC039119
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/12/2006, number: SC312903
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Raploch Community Campus, Drip Road, Raploch, Stirling, FK8 1RD

Objectives

To advance education in the arts with an emphasis on classical music and related art forms for children and young persons ordinarily resident in Scotland, at school or who have left school, to promote the development of a child-centred social transformation by the provision to such persons of classical musical education and support

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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