Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

LOVE MILTON 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Established: 14 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
Total income £45,838 £71,560 £60,280 £120,524 £88,254 £82,571
Total spending £54,840 £59,671 £62,710 £95,465 £79,127 £80,170
Surplus/deficit -£9,002 £11,889 -£2,430 £25,059 £9,127 £2,401
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Love Milton
£150,000 13/12/2019
37
This group will use the funding to deliver a range of environmental improvements in Milton through a personal development programme which will engage with 150 people and 30 volunteers over the next ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Just Like Us
£9,760 30/01/2019
12
This group will use the funding to facilitate a peer support group for people who either have addiction issues or have a person in their life with addiction issues.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LoveMilton
£118,485 02/03/2018
36
300 young people in Milton, Glasgow, will access a varied programme of youth work activities and be supported to engage more with their community. The project will increase confidence, self-belief, ....more
Robertson Trust - The Volunteer Training Coordinator's Salary
£29,000 21/03/2017
The Volunteer Training Coordinator's Salary
National Lottery Community Fund - Milton's Ecological Design Centre.
£29,539 16/05/2016
12
Milton's Ecological Design Centre.
Robertson Trust - The Volunteer Training Coordinator's Salary
£12,500 30/04/2015
The Volunteer Training Coordinator's Salary

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 40-65
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 03/09/2010, number: SC041756
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/09/2009, number: SC364951
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

15 Scaraway Drive, Milton, Glasgow, G22 7EY

Objectives

(1) To provide within Milton recreational facilities, or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. (2) To advance environmental protection and improvement in Milton through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). (3) To relieve those in need by promoting training, particularly among residents of the Milton, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (4) To help young people, particularly those resident in Milton, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (5) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within Milton. (6) To advance citizenship and/or community development (including the promotion of civic responsibility and the promotion of the voluntary sector and/or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities).

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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