FROME'S MISSING LINKS

Registered charity 1166492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FML

The advancement of health or saving of lives for the benefit of the general public by providing facilities and activities to enable and promote exercise by walking, cycling or running in a safe environment. The provision of facilities and activities for healthy recreation or other leisure time- occupation in the interests of social welfare to improve the condition of life of the general public .

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR SAVING OF LIVES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES TO ENABLE AND PROMOTE EXERCISE BY WALKING, CYCLING OR RUNNING IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT.THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR HEALTHY RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME- OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC .

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£159k

Latest spending

£143k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports unrestricted closing reserves of £66,405.26, derived from an opening balance of £35,308.83 and total receipts of £159,130.35, primarily from grants. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which found no material matters requiring attention, indicating compliant record-keeping and accurate accounts.

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 3 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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 50
Government income: £50,000 — grants £50,000 (1); 31% of the £159,130 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 45

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 35
Government income: £19,349 — grants £19,349 (2); 76% of the £25,343 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 01/11/2024, 1 day after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Richard Ackroydchair · trustee of 2 other charities
Adrian Stuart Warren
Grant Mitchell Gellatly
Helen Elizabeth Johnstone
Ruth Knagg
Tricia Golinski

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£159k	£143k
31/12/2024	£49k	£3k
31/12/2023	£25k	£61k
31/12/2022	£17k	£14k
31/12/2021	£17k	£1k

Common questions

Is FROME'S MISSING LINKS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reports unrestricted closing reserves of £66,405.26, derived from an opening balance of £35,308.83 and total receipts of £159,130.35, primarily from grants. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which found no material matters requiring attention, indicating compliant record-keeping and accurate accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	09/09/2024	£15k	Frome's Missing Links phase 2
Somerset Community Foundation	05/04/2019	£2k	Frome's Missing Links cycleway

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
The Brindle Foundation	1	£100k
FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£35k
THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATION	1	£25k
BAIN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED.

MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £587k
FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £65k
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' CONVALESCENT SCHEME income £52k
MILESHYCLUB income £119k
HIGH STREET FITNESS & WELLBEING income £127k
Live Free Foundation income £64k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FROME'S MISSING LINKS	£159k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£587k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025	£65k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' CONVALESCENT SCHEME FY2025	£52k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MILESHYCLUB FY2026	£119k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HIGH STREET FITNESS & WELLBEING FY2025	£127k	—	0	below	—	no doubt

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