Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

STARCATCHERS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 13 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 £463,119 £594,866 £444,818 £630,490 £755,611
Donations & Legacies £2,865 £2,050 £356 £633
Other Income £649 £23,374 £40,444 £25
Investment Income £451 £986 £675 £408 £853
Total income £467,084 £621,276 £456,055 £671,975 £721,051 £756,894
Charitable activities spending £531,907 £525,798 £567,504 £462,621 £841,174
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £531,907 £525,798 £567,504 £462,621 £768,033 £841,174
Surplus/deficit -£64,823 £95,478 -£111,449 £209,354 -£46,982 -£84,280
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
  • This charity is based in an area of 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
Scottish Government£102,362
National Lottery Community Fund£87,740
William Grant Foundation£34,000
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£30,000
Corra Foundation£20,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Oot Playin'
£3,200 06/10/2022
Towards staff costs to deliver outdoor creative play sessions for children and their families.
Scottish Government - Starcatchers Productions Limited
£49,850 24/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Starcatchers Productions Limited
£12,100 04/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Starcatchers Productions Limited
£2,000 26/01/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Corra Foundation - HDG-20/5416
£16,500 10/12/2020
towards 'Expecting Something' mother and baby group art and parenting sessions
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Babies
£9,740 26/10/2020
10
This group will use the funding to deliver a free four-month programme of weekly creative play activities to young children and parents within low income families in Girvan. They will also run four ....more
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2020-23
£34,000 15/10/2020
36
Unrestricted funding for Starcatchers to provide performances and creative activities for children under five.
Scottish Government - Starcatchers Productions Limited
£38,412 16/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Starcatchers Productions Limited
£3,500 09/04/2020
To support an existing project ?Expecting Something? to deliver 10 weeks of themed artist-led sessions remotely via physical delivery packs and online sessions to encourage creative play for ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative Kin - North Ayrshire
£78,000 24/02/2020
36
This group will use the funding to deliver artist-led creative sessions for children up to five years of age who are in kinship care and their carers in North Ayrshire. Four annual events will also ....more
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Creative Kin
£30,000 27/11/2019
Creative Kin is a creative intervention to support children living in kinship care and their Kinship Carer. Many children have experienced significant trauma in their lives prior to being placed in ....more
Corra Foundation - HDG-19/418
£4,000 01/06/2019
Towards the cost of running the Expecting Something project for young parents in Lochgelly and Wester Hailes for an additional 12 months (2019/2020)
National Lottery Community Fund - Stripy Nest
£10,000 14/03/2019
12
This group will create an interactive playground for children with Additional Support Needs (ASNs) which promotes both group and inclusive play.
Corra Foundation - HDA-18/351
£4,000 02/08/2018
Towards the cost of running the Expecting Something project for young parents in Lochgelly and Wester Hailes in 2018/19.
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/106
£5,000 30/03/2017
towards the costs of Lead Artists for the Expecting Something project
Robertson Trust - The Expecting Something Project
£45,000 21/03/2017
The Expecting Something Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Expecting Something
£150,000 18/11/2016
24
This group will use the funding to offer a programme of creative activities for young parents, with children aged under two years old, living in and around the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, and in ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 25-72
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 06/04/2011, number: SC042222
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/01/2011, number: SC392561
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

WHALE Arts, 30 Westburn Grove, Edinburgh, EH14 2SA

Objectives

To support, research, develop and create performances and arts experiences for babies and young children and their parents, carers, education and support provides and provide training and professions opportunities for educators.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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