Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

    BALTIC STREET ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND SCIO  

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 30/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22
    Charitable activities £220 £5,184
    Donations & Legacies £415,795 £383,178
    Other Income £14,769 £1,430
    Investment Income
    Total income £168,052 £416,015 £397,947 £253,048
    Charitable activities spending £253,087 £282,211 £311,580
    Fundraising costs 6% 13%
    Other spending
    Total spending £148,304 £253,087 £305,729 £345,198
    Surplus/deficit £19,748 £162,928 £92,218 -£92,150
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Purposes
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • 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
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Glasgow City
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely 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£41,101
    Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£26,450
    Foundation Scotland£17,761
    BBC Children in Need£5,000
    DCMS£5,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground
    £26,450 28/01/2021
    32% of salaries over 1-year for an Outdoor Nursery to provide play sessions for pre-school children at the Baltic Street Adventure Playground in Dalmarnock, East Glasgow.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground
    £4,928 10/12/2020
    To contribute to the salary of the play team coordinator, who will be responsible for overseeing of meals for children during play sessions for children living in the East End of Glasgow.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground
    £4,933 28/10/2020
    To contribute the additional costs associated with employing the Food and Cooking Playworker for additional hours in direct response to the covid-19 pandemic.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground
    £5,500 24/09/2020
    For Growing Garden initiative element of the Community Food Hub including related employee costs. From the Nairn Family Trust.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground SCIO
    £5,000 17/06/2020
    6
    COVID19 - This grant will support the quick provision of practical support to 300 children and young people from deprived areas and isolated at home by Covid. They will maintain their connections to ....more
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £5,000 23/05/2020
    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
    Scottish Government - Baltic Street Adventure Playground SCIO
    £41,101 19/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground
    £2,400 15/04/2020
    To meet purchase costs of four laptops for staff to work remotely.
    Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Play Worker/Project Coordinator
    £36,000 04/12/2018
    The salary costs of the Play Worker/Project Coordinator
    National Lottery Community Fund - Growing Garden
    £5,870 20/11/2018
    12
    This group will use the funding to redevelop their growing garden for children and young people.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Baltic Street Adventure Playground SCIO
    £81,809 17/10/2017
    36
    This adventure playground helps children and young people experiencing disadvantage in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, by running physical and learning activities and play sessions that promote social ....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 05/09/2018, number: SC048684
    Filing Record
    3 returns made; AR19: 115 days late,
    Main office

    421 Baltic Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow, G40 3EU

    Objectives

    4 The organisation's purposes are: 4.1 to support the personal, social, physical and emotional development of the young people of the economically and socially isolated communities of Dalmarnock, Parkhead and Bridgeton, East Glasgow by providing free to access high quality outdoor and amenity space. 4.2 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by supporting children and families at risk from becoming socially excluded through the provision of free to access social space and informal support and supporting the social needs of children and families who are socially or economically excluded. 4.3 To advance the life and relief the needs of young people and their families and carers by providing a team of play workers who: 4.3.1 support and enable free, child-lead play opportunities, provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of children's day-to-day lives. 4.3.2 support activities which develop children's skills, capacities and capabilities, and enable them to develop a sense of their own agency and their role within their wide community 4.3.3 create opportunities to give socially isolated young people access to a wide range of adults to extend their sense of hope and possibility

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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