COMMUNITY LINKS TRUST LIMITED

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

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Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02661182

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Proud to be part of Catch22 The National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)

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.

• HULSTON, Naomi Michelle — director, appointed 31/07/2022on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Nigel Paul — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Nigel — secretary, appointed 01/03/2019

Official officers record.

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

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chibweka Kavindele · trustee of 2 other charities
• Naomi Hulston · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nigel Richards · trustee of 3 other charities

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• 1692 income £462k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• THE LINKING NETWORK income £823k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• OUR KIDS income £19.3m

Side by side with its peers

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