Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

    KINSHIP CARE MIDLOTHIAN SCIO 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Established: 9 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    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 £15,521 £24,900 £46,864 £86,081 £65,476 £75,102
    Total spending £16,540 £34,219 £32,140 £75,279 £75,473 £51,980
    Surplus/deficit -£1,019 -£9,319 £14,724 £10,802 -£9,997 £23,122
    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 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: Midlothian
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies

    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
    Foundation Scotland£40,960
    Triangle Trust 1949 Fund£14,044
    DCMS£10,000
    The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
    The Foyle Foundation£7,500
    The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£3,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Foundation Scotland - Supermarket Shopping Vouchers or Direct Funding
    £4,660 20/12/2023
    To contribute towards supermarket vouchers to alleviate the increased cost of food and clothing for kinship children in Midlothian.
    Foundation Scotland - Supermarket Shopping Vouchers or Direct Funding
    £10,000 05/05/2023
    To contribute towards supermarket vouchers to alleviate the increased cost of living, providing a monthly meal throughout the winter months, and a weekly drop-in for advocacy and IT support and a ....more
    The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
    £7,500 08/02/2022
    towards the advocacy service for kinship carers (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £4,300 29/07/2021
    to contribute towards 45 outings and day trips for kinship children and their kinship carers.
    The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £3,000 08/06/2021
    12
    Small Grant unrestricted core costs
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £2,000 15/02/2021
    to contribute towards advocacy support.
    Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO - 3
    £6,590 04/02/2021
    Emergency funding Covid-19 support
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £5,000 07/10/2020
    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 Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £5,000 07/10/2020
    To supply monthly food vouchers to Carers and their children who are at risk of food poverty
    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 Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £5,000 02/09/2020
    To alleviate hardship and poverty for relatives and friends caring full-time for Midlothian kinship children through the distribution of supermarket shopping vouchers, to ensure that the kinship ....more
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £5,000 22/05/2020
    To provide supermarket vouchers to kinship carers to help them cope with additional costs of having children home while schools are closed and the need to provide additional meals
    Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO - 2
    £7,454 13/05/2020
    Emergency funding Covid-19 support
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO
    £5,000 08/04/2020
    To provide kinship carers to 92 children across Midlothian with supermarket vouchers to support them to purchase healthy food and essentials during the coronavirus crisis.
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Kinship Care Midlothian
    £10,000 03/09/2019
    purchase of furniture and equipment for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Midlothian
    Triangle Trust 1949 Fund - Kinship Care Midlothian SCIO - 1
    £48,329 06/12/2018
    36
    Support to move the charity to its own building to provide an office and base for support sessions.
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Outings and Day Trips for Kinship Children
    £8,870 26/09/2018
    Outing and Day Trips for Kinship Children in Edinburgh or the Lothians during the Christmas and New Year school holidays accompanied by their kinship carer. Funding application to include purchase by ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Scottish National Network For Kinship Carers
    £10,000 11/08/2015
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    Scottish National Network For Kinship Carers
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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 02/04/2015, number: SC045537
    • Notes: Previous Name from 02/04/2015 to 20/07/2018 Dalkeith Midlothian Kinship Carers SCIO
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    The Prefab (G), Grannies Park Industrial Estate, Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 1JY

    Objectives

    4.1 The advancement of education, 4.2 The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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