THE LINK FOUNDATION LTD

Registered charity 1118821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relieving children who are in condition of need, hardship or distress through provision of grants of money or provision of items or supplies or facilities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8,417 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £8,465 at year-end. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by expected income and current reserves. The charity aims to keep reserves at a minimum by distributing funds directly to children and their families.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06040746

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Link Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Mattel — “News Mattel produces care packs for teens Mattel's play it forward team triumph” (source page)
• Bridge Insurance Brokers Ltd — ““What a lovely addition the story book is to this campaign. Keep up the Great Work. From All at Bridge Insurance Brokers Ltd"” (source page)

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.

• ROSS, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 21/04/2021on trustee list
• WELCH, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/12/2018on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Kathryn — director, appointed 14/09/2013on trustee list
• JEYASINGHAM, Elizabeth — director, appointed 03/01/2007on trustee list
• LOUGHREY, Una Mary — director, appointed 03/01/2007on trustee list
• LOUGHREY, Una Mary — secretary, appointed 10/02/2014

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH SARASWATHY JEYASINGHAM
• KAREN LORRAINE WALTER
• KATHRYN ROBERTS
• Nicola Ross
• Sara Elizabeth Welch
• Una Loughrey

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · India · Kenya · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 THE PURI FOUNDATION.

• THE PURI FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• KOLLEL BINYAN SIMCHA income £573k
• THE LINKING NETWORK income £823k
• WAFA RELIEF income £560k
• ASTON VILLA FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• CAMBRIDGE AID income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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