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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

MALAWI FRUITS 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Charitable activities £39,643 £29,031
Donations & Legacies £318,740 £232,547
Other Income
Investment Income £13
Total income £118,145 £219,469 £358,396 £229,099 £155,330 £261,578
Charitable activities spending £242,865 £260,312
Fundraising costs 10% 12%
Other spending
Total spending £152,284 £310,987 £276,919 £246,543 £136,109 £291,844
Surplus/deficit -£34,139 -£91,518 £81,477 -£17,444 £19,221 -£30,266
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Established: 12 years

www.malawifruits.org.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The promotion of religious or racial harmony
Where it operates
  • Overseas only, main operating location: North Lanarkshire
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups

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
Corra Foundation - International_COVID_19-20/4749
£15,000 11/06/2020
To contribute to the operating costs as a result of COVID-19 pandemic
Comic Relief - Renewing irrigation assets
£9,100 25/11/2015
Poor farmers in northern Malawi live on what they can grow, bartering or selling any surplus food in local markets to buy clothes and essentials leaving no cash for healthcare or secondary education. ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Directors: 44-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 05/12/2011, number: SC042777
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/08/2011, number: SC405538
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR17: 46 days late,
Main office

Kintail House, Hamilton, G720FT

Objectives

The prevention or relief of poverty, the advancement of citizenship and community development and the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages by operating as a fundraising and grant-giving (through financial support, volunteering, the provision of equipment, training and otherwise) organisation to primarily support social enterprise and similar community organisations based in Malawi initially through the support of social enterprise in Malawi focussed on food processing and distribution.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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