Overall GiG Score: 9 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

GOOD MORNING PROJECT LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
  • 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: 23 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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 £268,808 £201,317 £267,429 £280,328 £276,819 £210,974
Total spending £215,622 £232,896 £254,470 £284,483 £263,943 £246,533
Surplus/deficit £53,186 -£31,579 £12,959 -£4,155 £12,876 -£35,559
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
  • 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
Henry Smith Charity£180,000
Tudor Trust£92,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Scottish Government£8,599
Charles Hayward Foundation£5,000
Corra Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Good Morning Service
£180,000 15/03/2023
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation providing a telephone and group befriending service for older people in Glasgow and South Ayrshire, Scotland.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Good Morning Service
£5,000 30/03/2022
Good Morning Service
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£15,000 09/07/2021
Good Morning Service Core
Tudor Trust - Grant to Good Morning Service
£2,000 18/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Tudor Trust - Grant to Good Morning Service
£90,000 05/06/2020
36
over three years as unrestricted funding for a telephone befriending service supporting older people in Glasgow and South Ayrshire
Scottish Government - Good Morning Project Limited
£8,599 06/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 04/09/2019
Core Costs
Corra Foundation - HDG-19/415
£5,000 01/06/2019
Towards the salary costs of the Telephone Befrienders and the associated running costs.
Glasgow City Council - Good Morning Project
£79,948 15/03/2019
The project is a telephone befriending and alert service operating 7 days a week, 365 days a year for elderly people aged, on average, 80 years old.
Glasgow City Council - Good Morning Project
£8,656 28/02/2019
The project is a telephone befriending and alert service operating 7 days a week, 365 days a year for elderly people aged, on average, 80 years old.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Good Morning Service
£100,000 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a telephone and group befriending service for older people in Glasgow and South Ayrshire
Glasgow City Council - Good Morning Project
£8,656 08/06/2018
The project is a telephone befriending and alert service operating 7 days a week, 365 days a year for elderly people aged, on average, 80 years old.
Glasgow City Council - Good Morning Project
£79,948 07/06/2018
The project is a telephone befriending and alert service operating 7 days a week, 365 days a year for elderly people aged, on average, 80 years old.
Corra Foundation - HDA-18/241
£7,000 07/06/2018
Towards salary costs of telephone befrienders.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 31/07/2017
Core costs
Robertson Trust - Good Morning Service
£50,000 25/07/2017
Good Morning Service
Corra Foundation - HDA-16/178
£6,000 07/04/2016
towards salary costs for telephone befrienders to engage with 350 older people per year
Glasgow City Council - Good Morning Project
£79,948 11/06/2015
The project is a telephone befriending and alert service operating 7 days a week, 365 days a year for elderly people aged, on average, 80 years old.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Good Morning Service
£85,400 12/03/2015
36
towards three years' salary of the Befriending Manager at a project providing a telephone befriending service for older people in Glasgow and the surrounding areas
Tudor Trust - Grant to Good Morning Project Ltd
£30,000 05/09/2013
24
over two years as continuation funding towards the running costs of a telephone befriending service for older people in Glasgow
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 38-83
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 26/07/2001, number: SC031960
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/07/2001, number: SC221598
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

G4 Flemington House, 110 Flemington St, Glasgow, G21 4BF

Objectives

4 The company is established for charitable purposes only, in particular the relief of those in need through: 4.1 Providing a telephone befriending service to promote the health, social welfare and safety of people throughout the UK and Ireland (the Operating Area), particularly vulnerable individuals including but not limited to the elderly and those suffering from disabilities and/or mental illness. 4.2 Promoting and encouraging security, the prevention of crime and the reduction in the fear of crime in the interests of social welfare throughout the Operating Area, with particular emphasis on addressing the specific needs of vulnerable sections of the community. and 4.3 Promoting, establishing, operating and/or supporting other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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