Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

VOX LIMINIS 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 10 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/09/17 30/09/18 30/09/19 30/09/20 30/09/21 30/09/22
Charitable activities £164,158 £206,244 £65,358 £14,033 £103,100
Donations & Legacies £148,114 £132,567 £185,098 £319,602
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £211,113 £312,272 £338,811 £250,456 £333,635 £299,629
Charitable activities spending £316,309 £292,652 £275,654 £203,430 £277,377
Fundraising costs 6% 6% 5% 6%
Other spending £21,385
Total spending £219,687 £334,202 £314,037 £291,206 £221,703 £294,077
Surplus/deficit -£8,574 -£21,930 £24,774 -£40,750 £111,932 £5,552
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City

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
National Lottery Community Fund£120,000
Scottish Government£100,105
Henry Smith Charity£90,000
Foundation Scotland£45,000
BBC Children in Need£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Scottish Government - Vox Liminis
£75,000 07/04/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Vox Liminis
£90,000 16/09/2020
36
towards three years' running costs of an organisation supporting people affected by the criminal justice system, people serving sentences, their families, and communities around them through creative ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Vox Liminis
£4,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will support staff time to explore new ways of being able to support 40 children and young people with family members in prison and isolated by Covid. They will build confidence ....more
Scottish Government - Vox Liminis
£25,105 27/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Unbound: Connecting & Making
£120,000 09/04/2020
36
This group will use the funding to support people returning from prison through weekly creative sessions peer-peer support using strengthened partnerships with Scottish Prisons. The project will ....more
Foundation Scotland - Core Costs (Children & Families Work)
£45,000 19/03/2020
to contribute towards delivering the KIN and In Tune projects.
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/476
£6,000 07/12/2017
Towards the salary of the full-time Delivery Manager.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Vox Liminis
£30,000 13/11/2017
36
The Kin Collective helps children and young people affected by having a family member in prison. Young people will produce art projects and run sessions for others, so will be more confident, learn ....more
Corra Foundation - HDA-16/536
£7,000 04/08/2016
to support the salary of the Development Manager for work on the In Tune and KIN programmes
Robertson Trust - the Vox Liminis Project
£20,000 29/02/2016
the Vox Liminis Project
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Vox Liminis
£62,793 01/07/2015
This project will run music therapy sessions for children and their families with a parent in prison. The monthly sessions will improve family relationships creative capabilities and confidence.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Vox Sessions
£10,000 17/12/2013
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The Vox Sessions
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 40-61
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 22/10/2013, number: SC044343
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/07/2013, number: SC455215
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Glasgow Collective, East Campbell Street, Glasgow, G1 5DT

Objectives

4 The company's objects are to develop creative arts-based practices within the criminal justice system, both to support individuals to lead more positive and fulfilling lives and to better inform civic discourse on crime and punishment, thus promoting rehabilitation, reintegration and reduced reoffending. This will include: 4.1 Delivery of creative arts-based activities with people currently in or with previous personal experience of the criminal justice system, thus advancing education and recreation through the arts, and fostering: engagement in subsequent education and training opportunities, improving their conditions of life and future prospects 4.2 Using creative arts-based practices to advance the human rights of people affected by criminal justice processes, including people who have offended, victims of crime, and their families and communities, 4.3 Through participation in the arts, to restore and advance the citizenship of people with convictions, including by working in and for the development of the communities to which they belong.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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