Overall GiG Score: 5 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +8

    SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 7 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 £98,157 £78,440 £49,749 £168,070 £124,517 £68,418
    Total spending £10,416 £81,291 £82,287 £92,676 £112,517 £124,229
    Surplus/deficit £87,741 -£2,851 -£32,538 £75,394 £12,000 -£55,811
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • People with disabilities or health problems
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of health
    • 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
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Stirling
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    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£53,950
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£41,549
    Scottish Government£35,237
    Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£9,977
    CAF£9,580
    Corra Foundation£4,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Foundation Scotland - Effective Interventions for at-risk Young Girls
    £27,057 15/03/2022
    to contribute to the cost of a youth counsellor for a further two years to continue the success of supporting young girls age 12-16 with adverse childhood experiences.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Support for Families
    £5,000 24/06/2021
    To fund delivery of a project designed to help vulnerable Kinship Children aged 5-12 that have been removed from the family home due to parental substance misuse.
    Foundation Scotland - Effective Interventions for at-risk Young Girls
    £14,893 08/04/2021
    to contribute to the cost of running a new comprehensive programme offering bespoke peer-to-peer services, counselling, and targeted workshops for at-risk young girls aged 12-16 that experience more ....more
    Scottish Government - Support for Families
    £23,306 04/03/2021
    Detailed description not provided.
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £15,000 06/11/2020
    S4F - Sustaining & Further Developing Core Services
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Support for Families
    £2,000 13/07/2020
    to contribute towards delivering activities for kinship children.
    CAF - Grant to Support for Families (S4F)
    £9,580 24/06/2020
    3
    Grant to Support for Families (S4F) to support the organisation through COVID19
    Scottish Government - Support for Families
    £11,931 10/06/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Support for Families
    £5,000 29/04/2020
    To contribute towards the cost of food hampers, volunteer expenses and a new lap top to ensure families affected by substance misuse in Stirling and Forth Valley are supported throughout the pandemic.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Themed Activities for Kinship Children
    £9,977 15/04/2020
    11
    This Stirling based group will use the funding to provide a range of structured play activities for children who live with kinship carers due to a family member's substance misuse. The project will ....more
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Children's Worker - Supporting Vulnerable Children
    £41,549 27/11/2019
    S4F seeks funding to increase the part-time Children’s Worker post to better support vulnerable Kinship Children aged 5-15 that have experienced trauma, neglect, and/or abuse and been removed from ....more
    Corra Foundation - HDG-19/531
    £4,000 01/06/2019
    Towards the salary of the Children's Worker for an additional 12 months.
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £10,000 07/03/2019
    Supporting Vulnerable Children and Families – Core Funding
    National Lottery Community Fund - Improving Family Relationships
    £9,970 05/10/2018
    12
    This group will use the funding to provide a range of support services to families affected by a family member's substance misuse. The project will aims to provide practical homemaking skills, ....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 22/09/2017, number: SC047770
    • Notes: This charity was established to replace Stirling Family Support Service (SC034768) Stirling Family Support Service (SC034768) has now wound up and passed its assets and liabilities to Support for Families (SC047770) which is a SCIO.
    Filing Record
    4 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    36 St John Street, Stirling, FK8 1EA

    Objectives

    4 The organisation's purposes are the advancement of health and education of, and the provision of recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for people affected by drugs misuse within Stirling and the surrounding local authority areas. This will be achieved by: 4.1 providing information, assistance, counselling, and facilities within Stirling and the surrounding local authority areas. 4.2 working in partnership or association with local services, voluntary organisations and all inhabitants in a common effort to rehabilitate drug users and to assist those persons who may in any way be affected by drug misuse. and 4.3 securing the establishment, maintenance and management of premises for carrying out the activities of the group.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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