Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 7

LYNX WORKSHOP

Links provides supported learning opportunities for people with mental health issues. An example of courses we run are: Information Technology and accredited Learndirect courses, pottery, art, textiles, creative writing, digital photography, film making, cycling, waking and greencraft.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
30/09/23	£174	£259	£-84	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/22	£304	£274	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/21	£298	£210	£88	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/20	£288	£212	£76	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/19	£268	£200	£68	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/18	£206	£201	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/17	£222	£197	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/16	£198	£192	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/15	£187	£189	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/14	£162	£163	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/13	£104	£102	£2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/12	£95	£107	£-12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
30/09/11	£114	£123	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 14 years

www.links.uk.net

office@links.uk.net

01554757957

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Carmarthenshire,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to LINKS
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to LINKS
£50,000	20/10/2021 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of LINKS
Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund
£35,000	13/11/2020	The Positive Pathways programme funded projects that develop and run activities supporting the mental health and wellbeing of ex-Forces.
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£5,150	14/08/2020	Small grants of up to £10,000 towards creative and engaging projects, that can be delivered under social restrictions, for people from Armed Forces communities who are isolated as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - Create to Innovate
£448,000	27/09/2019 36	Create to Innovate
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Lynx Workshops
£14,330	21/02/2018 12	The grant will fund the organisational development needs of this Llanelli based charity allowing it to achieve the PQASSO Level 1 Quality Mark, incorporate the Recovery Star monitoring system and investigate and adopt an appropriate CRM system.
National Lottery Community Fund - Joined UP Linking and Armed Forces Buddies.
£418,241	25/05/2016 36	Combined Forces
National Lottery Community Fund - Joined up LINKING
£193,955	20/03/2013 36	The project aims to provide a mental health support service for people with ill mental health, in particular ex service personnel and their families based in Llanelli and Carmarthenshire. Activities include an Outreach service, support in filling ....more The project aims to provide a mental health support service for people with ill mental health, in particular ex service personnel and their families based in Llanelli and Carmarthenshire. Activities include an Outreach service, support in filling out forms, benefit and housing advice, support with emotional wellbeing, anger management, confidence building, a Support group, art and craft classes and retraining courses.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Lynx Workshops
£12,800	29/03/2011	the arts programme for individuals with mental health needs to include the Facilitator's costs

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-75

CLAIRE GENNER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

JAYNE BELVA HOWARTH Appointed: 2010, Occupation: None

MATTHEW THOMAS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

NICOLA DESTEFANO Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director

REV JOHN ELDON PHILLIPS Appointed: 2015

STEVE DONOGHUE (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

TERESA LUPINI Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/01/2011, number: 1139855
Registered at Companies House on 02/09/2010, number: 07363827

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Other Regulators

Care Quality Commission
Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales
Financial Conduct Authority
Homes England
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW)
Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Welsh Government (Social Landlords And Housing Associations)

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
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

Filing Record

13 returns made; all on time

Main office

UNIT 4
96 QUEEN VICTORIA ROAD
LLANELLI
SA15 2TH

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND WORK RELATED OPPORTUNITIES IN A SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT. THE AREA OF BENEFIT WILL BE THE DISTRICTS OF LLANELLI AND AMMANFORD

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE DISTRICTS OF LLANELLI AND AMMANFORD

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