COMMUNITY LINKS BROMLEY

Registered charity 1045255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BROMLEY CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Support, promote and facilitate the development of a strong, diverse, confident and effective voluntary and community sector. To improve the quality of life for people and their communities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY (HEREINAFTER CALLED "BROMLEY") AND SURROUNDING AREAS, AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, AND IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES, BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME BETWEEN VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, APPROPRIATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN BROMLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £174,534, meeting the trustees' policy target of three months' running costs. The charity reported a net income of £212,678 for the year, with total income decreasing from the previous year due to a reliance on core funding from the local authority.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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 03020127

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.

• UNJIA, Biral — director, appointed 04/01/2024on trustee list
• WILLS, Heather Julie — director, appointed 04/01/2024on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, Leigh Jane — director, appointed 18/01/2023on trustee list
• DABROWSKI, Tadeusz Peter — director, appointed 28/11/2017on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Byron — director, appointed 28/11/2017on trustee list
• LEWIS, Elliot Marc — director, appointed 19/10/2016on trustee list
• TIBBALDS, Janet Grace — director, appointed 25/09/2013on trustee list
• EVANS, Christopher — secretary, appointed 05/01/2023

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Tibbaldschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Biral Unjia
• Byron Johnson
• Elliot Marc Lewis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Julie Wills
• Leigh Jane Gallagher
• Tadeusz Peter Dabrowski

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

Operates in: Bromley

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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