LINKS: THE CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE AND ACTION LIMITED

Registered charity 1089963 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LINKS

Links is the Council for Voluntary Service in Chesterfield and North east Derbyshire; providing advice, training, support and representation for voluntary and community groups.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS OF CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS;B) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO- OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £296,672, with unrestricted reserves standing at £80,423. The trustees report that reserves cover six months of core service running costs, although they note that local authority funding has ceased, creating significant uncertainty for future core service provision.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04294079

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.

• KAH, Habib — director, appointed 25/03/2025on trustee list
• MARTINEZ-GILL, Michelle — director, appointed 25/03/2025on trustee list
• WELLS, Sushri — director, appointed 25/03/2025on trustee list
• SANSOME, Barbara Ann — director, appointed 08/02/2022on trustee list
• LEE, James — secretary, appointed 01/11/2013

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Maria Kuc
• Barbara Sansome
• Festa Kelechi Taylor
• Habib Kah
• Joseph William Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorraine Dung
• Marsha Rose Mullings
• Michelle Jabalon Martinez-Gill
• Nataliia Boreiko
• Rita King
• SUSHRI WELLS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Teresa Katherine Waldron

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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