Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

MINDFULNESS SCOTLAND 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/09/17 30/09/18 30/09/19 30/09/20 30/09/21 30/09/22
Total income £7,050 £19,419 £27,612 £50,044 £10,136 £38,671
Total spending £24,833 £15,392 £27,692 £20,602 £35,990 £10,825
Surplus/deficit -£17,783 £4,027 -£80 £29,442 -£25,854 £27,846
Established: 14 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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
Ministry of Defence - OVA Afghanistan Veterans' Fund
£7,790 11/03/2022
To increase capacity in services and initiatives that offer supportive comradeship, engagement and wellbeing efforts for those in the Armed Forces community impacted by events in Afghanistan, and the ....more
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - COVID IMPACT FUND
£4,800 25/06/2020
Funding allowed the group to continue the delivery of mindfulness classes for veterans and their partners in collaboration with Combat Stress. They will use digital platforms and develop an app in ....more
Ministry of Defence - Covid-19 Impact Fund
£4,800 15/06/2020
To maintain services and activities where organisations' finances had been impacted by Covid

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 61-77
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 16/06/2010, number: SC041573
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/09/2009, number: SC366381
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 120 days late,
Main office

, G61 4BH

Objectives

The Company's objects are: The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage through the provision of mindfulness based therapeutic programmes. to establish and run mindfulness based education and training in Scotland and beyond.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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