LINK AGE SOUTHWARK

Registered charity 1105923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DULWICH HELPLINE, DULWICH HELPLINE AND SOUTHWARK CHURCHES CARE (DH&SCC), DULWICH HELPLINE AND SOUTHWARKCHURCHES CARE (DH&SCC)

Link Age Southwark prevents loneliness and isolation in older people and brings communities together. We improve wellbeing, connection, mental health and physical health through: one-to-one befriending; activity groups; information and support, intergenerational work with local schools; specialist services for people with dementia.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS WITHIN SOUTH LONDON

Area of benefit: SOUTH LONDON

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £158,686 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £709,253. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £352,994 met the stated policy target of holding six months of budgetary expenditure (£354,637). The trustees have agreed a deficit budget for the upcoming year and note that increased income and effective cost management will be needed to ensure long-term sustainability.

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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — LINK AGE SOUTHWARK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Greenwood · trustee of 3 other charities
• Barbara Fittall
• CAROLINE SARAH OLDFIELD HAVERS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Ruth Evans
• John Baldwin
• Kieran Payne
• Yoko De Souza

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINK VISITING SCHEME.

• LINK VISITING SCHEME income £544k
• AGE UK LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK income £2.6m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH PENSIONERS LINK LIMITED income £204k
• LINKING LIVES UK income £233k
• SOCIAL LINK income £597k
• THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB income £197k

Side by side with its peers

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