Finance Score: 4

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

Reasonable growth: +1
Fundraising costs low: +3

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

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 16

COMMUNITY LINKS BROMLEY

Support, promote and facilitate the development of a strong, diverse, confident and effective voluntary and community sector. To improve the quality of life for people and their communities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
This charity only provides its support via other charities

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£702	£573	£129	£17	£401	£152	3.2	7	11
31/03/22	£578	£556	£22	£13	£272	£102	2.2	7	8
31/03/21	£607	£516	£91	£11	£273	£94	2.2	7	4
31/03/20	£417	£306	£111	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/03/19	£364	£382	£-19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/18	£417	£380	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£290	£249	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£243	£385	£-142	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£490	£532	£-42	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£408	£477	£-69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£413	£405	£8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£315	£479	£-164	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£533	£429	£104	£14	£420	£359	10	9	0
31/03/10	£451	£397	£55	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£374	£359	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£250	£325	£-75	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£286	£306	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£278	£334	£-56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£661	£714	£-53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£770	£704	£66	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 26%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 38%
Reserves/Spending: 3.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 2.8

Asset Split ?

Established: 29 years

www.communitylinksbromley.org.uk

admin@communitylinksbromley.org.uk

02083151900

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Community services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Bromley,

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who works here?

7 employees
11 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - CLB & SLCT - Grant Giving Scheme
£250,000	15/12/2020 5	The organisation will work collaboratively with local funders who operate in areas where they currently have limited reach and who can reach equality groups who are impacted by COVID 19.
National Lottery Community Fund - CLB &SLCT - Capacity Building Training and Development Programme
£47,850	15/12/2020	The funding will be used by the project to deliver a capacity building training and development programme aimed at frontline community groups who represent disadvantaged communities financially ....more The funding will be used by the project to deliver a capacity building training and development programme aimed at frontline community groups who represent disadvantaged communities financially effected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This work would be delivered alongside its programme to provide a framework for community groups to come together to host activities that have the potential to create positive change for the local communities.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Community Links Bromley
£66,750	22/09/2016 24	£66,750 over two years (£35,250; £31,500) towards project delivery, including tutors’ fees, venues and materials, project management and on-costs.
City Bridge Trust - Eco-audit to Community Links Bromley
£4,000	13/03/2014	£4,000 (10 days) to undertake an eco-audit with Community Links Bromley and within Community House.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 35-80

BIRAL JOSHI Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Head Of Inclusion Delivery

ELISABETH POULTER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Commercial Director

HEATHER JULIE WILLS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Local Government Manager

LEIGH JANE GALLAGHER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

BYRON JOHNSON BROWN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Project Manager

JANET TIBBALDS (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Ret'D

LUKE HALLARD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Programme Director

TADEUSZ PETER DABROWSKI Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

ELLIOT MARC LEWIS Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: BROMLEY VOLUNTARY SECTOR TRUST,

PAUL COSGRAVE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: BROMLEY DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL, BROMLEY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/03/1995, number: 1045255
Registered at Companies House on 09/02/1995, number: 03020127

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment 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
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

COMMUNITY LINKS BROMLEY
COMMUNITY HOUSE
SOUTH STREET
BROMLEY
BR1 1RH

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DISTRICT OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY (HEREINAFTER CALLED BROMLEY) AND SURROUNDING AREAS, AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, AND IN THE FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID PURPOSES, BUT NOT FURTHER OR OTHERWISE, TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SAME BETWEEN VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, APPROPRIATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES WITHIN BROMLEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY

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