PLUS (PROVIDENCE LINC UNITED SERVICES)

Registered charity 1031595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as L I N C, L.I.N.C. (LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORKS COMMUNITY), PLUS

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operational deficit of £635,303 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by rising costs and wage inflation that outpaced funding increases from local authorities. Despite this deficit, the charity maintained total reserves of £6,601,849, with free reserves of £3,346,168 falling within the trustees' target range of £2,880,000 to £4,800,000. The trustees confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02782712

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gail Emerson — Chair (source)
• Geraint Williams — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• SCOTT, Gary Malcolm — director, appointed 17/02/2025not on trustee list
• OKUSAGA, Olusola Iyetunde — director, appointed 17/02/2025not on trustee list
• KUGATHASAN, Nirmalan — director, appointed 17/02/2025not on trustee list
• EMERSON, Gail — director, appointed 01/04/2024on trustee list
• ANIM-ADDO, Joan — director, appointed 16/03/2020on trustee list
• SCOTT, David — director, appointed 18/03/2019on trustee list
• BROAD, Sarah Clare — director, appointed 18/09/2017on trustee list
• JANKO MULCAHY, Ester — director, appointed 09/12/2013not on trustee list
• KLEMENCSICS, Karina — secretary, appointed 01/04/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £220k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: PLUS (Providence Linc United Services) — Registered, 10 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 12/12/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Domiciliary Services: Requires improvement (07/05/2022) · CQC record
• Elwis House: Good (09/07/2022) · CQC record
• Gaywood Street: Good (27/01/2024) · CQC record
• Montbelle Road: Good (01/06/2018) · CQC record
• Springbank Road: Good (04/03/2020) · CQC record
• Holmbury Dene (Respite): Good (01/01/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Scott
• Ester Janko Mulcahy
• Gail Emerson
• Jan Keane
• Joan Anim-Addo
• Sarah Clare Broad

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

Operates in: Croydon · Greenwich · Lewisham · Southwark · Sutton

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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

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• BRISTOL CHARITIES income £2.9m
• FULL FACT income £2.9m
• West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO income £478k

Side by side with its peers

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