INTERLINK RCT

Registered charity 1141143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTERLINK

Interlink is the County Voluntary Council for Rhondda Cynon Taff.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF RHONDDA CYNON TAFF, AS DEFINED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WALES) ACT 1994, AND SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS ‘THE AREA OF BENEFIT’), AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE. (2) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, AND TO THAT END TO BRING TOGETHER INTO MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHARITY PERSONS AND ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: RHONDDA CYNON TAFF AND MERTHYR TYDFIL.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total resources expended exceeded incoming resources by £141,191, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. However, unrestricted funds reported a surplus of £51,942 after transfers, and the charity holds available reserves of £675,212, which the trustees note provide scope to invest in priority areas. The trustees confirm that sufficient reserves are held to cover operational risks, including potential redundancy costs and the risk of losing large contracts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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 — RCT Covid-19 Fundraiser for community organisations (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon James — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Julie Edwards — Deputy Chief Executive and Communities Lead (source)

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dilys Jouvenat · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Watts-Rees
• Jan Louise Huyton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Whiteman
• Joanne Baldock
• Lisa Ann Wills
• Lynda Davies
• Richard Flowerdew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Walters
• STEPHEN DAVIES

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

Operates in: Merthyr Tydfil · Rhondda Cynon Taff

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 INTERLINK FOUNDATION.

• THE INTERLINK FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE LINK COMMUNITY HUB income £197k
• RIPON COMMUNITY LINK COMPANY LIMITED income £948k
• InSync income £62k
• INTERCOM income £952k
• INGOL AND TANTERTON COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £479k

Side by side with its peers

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