GLOBAL LINK (LANCASTER)

Registered charity 1107471 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Global Link is a Development Education Centre, providing creative and participatory learning experiences, to increase awareness of the global dimension and action towards a more fair and sustainable world. These include the 8 key concepts of: global interdependence, values and perceptions, sustainable development, social justice, diversity, citizenship, human rights, and conflict resolution.

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC (CHIEFLY IN LANCASHIRE) IN GLOBAL AND LOCAL ISSUES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITH REGARD TO TRADE AND ECONOMICS, CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.2)TO ADVANCE THE PROMOTION OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY COHESION AMONGST RESETTLEMENT AND LOCAL POPULATIONS IN LANCASHIRE3) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONGST THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM AND THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS PARTICULARLY BY ASSISTING WITH THE RESETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER OF SUCH PERSONS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, GRANTS, ADVICE AND ONWARDS REFERRAL.

Area of benefit: LANCASTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £440,951, which significantly exceed the stated policy target of £44,575. Per the trustees' report, income and expenditure were as per the planned budget, and the charity holds sufficient funds to cover its core activities and future commitments.

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
• Internal risk management 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £280k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE JACKSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN CAMPBELL HAMMOND
• John Edward Braithwaite
• Omar Jouzdan
• Patrice Van Cleemput
• Steven Hakizimana Shyaka

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOCIAL LINK income £597k
• GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE income £152k
• LINKS INTERNATIONAL income £1.6m
• THE LINKAGE COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £25.6m
• GLOBAL DIALOGUE income £4.7m
• INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC LINK income £441k

Side by side with its peers

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