Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +7
    Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

    SHARED PARENTING SCOTLAND 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Established: 12 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    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 £90,462 £127,843 £102,751 £139,549 £133,452 £192,830
    Total spending £90,066 £104,981 £118,122 £111,865 £152,826 £198,254
    Surplus/deficit £396 £22,862 -£15,371 £27,684 -£19,374 -£5,424
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    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
    • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • 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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Tudor Trust£47,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£7,000
    Scottish Government£6,750
    DCMS£5,000
    Foundation Scotland£5,000
    Allen Lane Foundation£4,500
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
    £1,750 15/03/2024
    Core costs
    Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Shared Parenting Scotland
    £4,500 04/03/2022
    £4,500 single grant towards costs of the training and support programme for parents dealing with loss and trauma
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Shared Parenting Scotland
    £45,000 21/01/2022
    24
    over two years as continuation funding towards core salaries at an organisation supporting separated parents in Scotland
    National Lottery Community Fund - Shared Parenting Online Training Project
    £7,000 12/10/2021
    This group will use the funding to pilot a new online training course and individual coaching which will support parents going through family breakdown.
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Shared Parenting Scotland
    £2,000 05/02/2021
    as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £5,000 02/09/2020
    NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Shared Parenting Scotland
    £5,000 02/09/2020
    To contribute to the second phase of an online training project, to continue developing an online training resource to support separated parents to rebuild confidence and improve communications ....more
    Scottish Government - Shared Parenting Scotland
    £6,750 07/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Families Need Fathers Scotland: Both Parents Matter
    £90,000 22/02/2019
    36
    over three years as continuation funding towards salaries and running costs at an organisation supporting non-resident parents, mainly fathers, and others experiencing contact problems after family ....more
    Corra Foundation - HDA-17/364
    £4,500 05/10/2017
    Towards salary and running costs to establish and support a new group in Dundee for fathers dealing with separation/divorce issues and maintaining contact with their children.
    Robertson Trust - The Dads Moving Forward project
    £30,000 19/09/2017
    The Dads Moving Forward project
    National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting minority ethnic fathers in Scotland
    £10,000 24/02/2016
    12
    Families Need Fathers Scotland based in Edinburgh plans to conduct research with fathers from a range of ethnic minority groups in Scotland to understand the position of separated fathers and the ....more
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Families Need Fathers Scotland
    £120,000 13/04/2015
    36
    over three years towards the salary of a partnership development and outreach worker for an organisation supporting non-resident parents, mainly fathers, and others experiencing contact problems ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 20/12/2011, number: SC042817
    • Notes: Previous name - Families Need Fathers Scotland from 20/12/2011 to 16/10/2019
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    10 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AA

    Objectives

    4 The organisation's purposes are: 4.1 For the relief of parents and their children and other close family members living in Scotland or having a family member in Scotland who are suffering from the consequences of divorce or separation by providing advice, assistance and other support and, in so doing, helping parents stay in touch with their children after divorce or separation. 4.2 To further the emotional development of children in Scotland whose parents have divorced or separated by encouraging shared parenting arrangements which enable such children to have continuing and meaningful relationships with both their parents. 4.3 To conduct study and research into problems concerned with children in Scotland who are deprived of the presence of a parent in their family. and into the problems concerned with establishing good relations between parents who do not live together, and to publish the useful results of all such study and research in order to encourage appropriate changes in professional and public opinion.’

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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