COMMUNITY LINKS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1018517 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY LINKS

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Latest income
£213k
Latest spending
£207k
Registered
1993
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £212,953 against total expenditure of £207,425, resulting in a net surplus of £5,528. The charity holds total funds of £4,537, comprising £2,655 in restricted funds and £1,882 in unrestricted free reserves. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by its parent company Catch22 Charity Limited.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: unclear (held: £2k)
Combined reserves of the Catch22 group of charities are considered by the Trustees to be adequate as at 31st August 2025. — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Income receivable from Catch 22 Charity Limited
During the year the charitable company had income receivable from Catch 22 Charity Limited of £212,953 (2024: £105,719). Also during the year Catch22 incurred the following costs on behalf of the charitable company: - Staff costs £161,406 (2024: £97,742) - Other direct costs £5,310 (2023: £7,997) - Support costs £40,408 (2024: £4,050) At the balance sheet date £4,537 was owed to the charitable company to Catch22 Charity Limited, (2024: £380 was owed by Community Links Trust to Catch 22) — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2021)

Total income
£899k
Total spending
£4.3m
Cost of raising funds
£4k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
43

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£213k£207k
31/08/2024£106k£110k
31/08/2023£123k£120k
31/08/2022£0£0
31/08/2021£899k£4.3m

Common questions

Is COMMUNITY LINKS TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income for the year was £212,953 against total expenditure of £207,425, resulting in a net surplus of £5,528. The charity holds total funds of £4,537, comprising £2,655 in restricted funds and £1,882 in unrestricted free reserves. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by its parent company Catch22 Charity Limited. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The Mercers' Company04/07/2018£94kGrant to Community Links
The National Lottery Community Fund22/11/2012£390kEarly Action Task Force Phase 2
Sport England20/05/2011£13kGet Healthy Through Sport
The National Lottery Community Fund16/09/2008£245kOPEN PLAY
The National Lottery Community Fund25/01/2006£5kInstallation of a soft playroom
The National Lottery Community Fund13/09/2005£216kDevelopment of MJ/1/010046014

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 1692.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
COMMUNITY LINKS TRUST LIMITED£213k0unclearno doubt
1692 FY2025£462k0withinno doubt
YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM FY2025£834k0unclearno doubt
OUR KIDS FY2024£19.3mUnder £60,0000unclearno doubt
SOUTH MANCHESTER SPORTS CLUB LIMITED FY2025£113k0withinno doubt
H M SASSOON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£124k0unclearno doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.