TRUST LINKS LIMITED

Registered charity 1092324 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(i) the support of vulnerable and disadvantaged people including those with mental health problems & learning disabilities their carers, in Essex, particularly by providing a therapeutic environment, community garden projects, support, counselling & training in order to support wellbeing and promote public health;(ii) to provide and support environmental education and awareness.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.9m
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £3,296 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,870,687 and total expenditure of £1,867,391. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £573,890, which the trustees note is below their stated policy objective of six months' expenditure but consistent with their risk management strategy given contracted income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Maynard Heady LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Trust Links - Mental Health & Wellbeing (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £183k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.9m
Cost of raising funds
£74k
Reserves (reported)
£574k
Employees
60

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea · Thurrock

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.9m£1.9m
31/03/2024£1.9m£1.9m
31/03/2023£1.8m£1.6m
31/03/2022£1.6m£1.4m
31/03/2021£1.1m£1.0m

Common questions

Is TRUST LINKS LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £3,296 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,870,687 and total expenditure of £1,867,391. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £573,890, which the trustees note is below their stated policy objective of six months' expenditure but consistent with their risk management strategy given contracted income. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Maynard Heady LLP.

Who funds TRUST LINKS LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TRUST LINKS LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE VEOLIA ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST, THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION, FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUST, THE 29TH MAY 1961 CHARITY, THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE VEOLIA ENVIRONMENTAL TRUSTFY2025£71k
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATIONFY2025£25kGrant
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATIONFY2024£25k
FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUSTFY2022£20kTowards a therapeutic community project.
THE 29TH MAY 1961 CHARITYFY2022£15kcosts of a therapeutic community garden project in Southend assisting people with mental health problems
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATIONFY2022£10k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITEDFY2025£10k
FORD BRITAIN TRUSTFY2023£3k
THE MRS SMITH AND MOUNT TRUSTFY2022£3kThe Mount Fund - Mental Health

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/06/2026£20kReRooted Community Hub
Sport England23/03/2026£13kBouldering Together
Postcode Lottery06/01/2025£25kMillionaire Street 2025 01w2 Year 1
The National Lottery Community Fund11/08/2022£32kGrowing Together Basildon uplift
The National Lottery Heritage Fund20/01/2022£10k"Southend Heritage Dyeing Project"
The National Lottery Community Fund02/12/2021£181kGrowing Together Basildon
The National Lottery Community Fund08/04/2021£500kGrowing Together
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/09/2019£10k"An Accessible, Inclusive and Wildlife-Friendly Labyrinth"
The National Lottery Community Fund06/06/2019£10kMental Health & Wellbeing Hub
The National Lottery Heritage Fund16/10/2018£10k"Bird & Bat Life at Growing Together Westcliff"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund21/08/2018£10k"Rochford Wildlife Workshops"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund11/04/2017£10k"Heritage Gardens"
The National Lottery Community Fund29/09/2016£6kSouthend May Fayre
The National Lottery Heritage Fund08/09/2016£10k"Shoebury Hub Garden Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund30/06/2016£10k"Gardening for Wildlife Workshops"
The National Lottery Community Fund17/05/2016£10kGreen House Resource Centre Thundersley
The National Lottery Community Fund29/03/2016£25kTPP1 - Growing Together Shoeburyness
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/06/2015£10k"Growing Together Thundersley - Developing a new community garden"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund09/12/2014£10k"St Laurence Orchard"
The National Lottery Community Fund26/11/2014£10kGrowing Together Shoeburyness: Feature Garden Entrance
The National Lottery Heritage Fund12/06/2014£6k"Growing Together Heritage"
The National Lottery Community Fund12/07/2012£300kGrowing Together Shoeburyness
The National Lottery Community Fund18/01/2006£5kSpecial Needs Horticulture
The National Lottery Community Fund05/10/2005£57kTrust Links Growing Together

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

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHCLIFFE ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRISES TEAM.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TRUST LINKS LIMITED£1.9m——unclear—no doubt
NORTHCLIFFE ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRISES TEAM FY2025£715k—0above—no doubt
THE LINKAGE COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED FY2025£25.6m——above—no doubt
BIRMINGHAM INDUSTRIAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025£1.4m—0unclear—noted
LINK-ABILITY FY2025£7.4m£90,001 - £100,000—unclear—no doubt
SOCIAL LINK FY2025£536k—0unclear—no doubt

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