POSITIVE CARE LINK

Registered charity 1045438 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCL

To support and promote the health of Africans in Greater London by providing care and practical help, information and advice, and to advance public education on HIV and AIDS.

Objects

(1)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH AND RELIEVE SICKNESS OF PERSONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, LIVING MAINLY BUT NOT SPECIFICALLY IN THE GREATER LONDON AREA, WITH PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE REFERENCE TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM HIV OR AIDS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THEIR FAMILIES BY IN PARTICULAR THE GIVING OF ADVICE, INFORMATION, SUPPORT, CARE AND ASSISTANCE. (11)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THOSE IN THE CARING PROFESSIONS AND GENERAL PUBLIC ON THE SUBJECT OF HIV AND AIDS AND THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE HIV POSITIVE OR SUFFER FROM AIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: IN PARTICULAR GREATER LONDON AREA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £124 for the year, with unrestricted reserves falling to £11,580. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is below the stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure, and the charity is actively working to diversify income streams to address this.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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 03028423

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.

• SEGAWA MUKASA, David — director, appointed 12/10/2008on trustee list
• TAKAN, Richard — director, appointed 22/09/2003on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Positive Care Link — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 09/11/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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).

• Positive Care Link: Requires improvement (13/12/2022) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID SEGAWA-MUKASAchair
• FLORENCE NAMBI
• MENDI NAKAGGWE
• RICHARD TAKAN
• SAMUEL KYAMBADDE MUSOKE

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE CARELINK.

• NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE CARELINK income £928k
• POSITIVELY UK income £850k
• POSITIVE EAST income £1.9m
• THE LINK FOUNDATION LTD income £113k
• CARE ALL LIMITED income £954k
• AIDS CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING income £539k

Side by side with its peers

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