Overall GiG Score: -10 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: -6
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Very static board: -5
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified

LIFELINE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL 

LifeLine Network is an international association of NGOs, and community-based organisations in 17 nations, seeking to provide relief to people who are in need and create sustainable development, through agricultural development, vocational skills training, education, health care, leadership and management mentoring, psycho-social care and micro-finance.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 14 years

www.lifelinenetwork.org

info@lifelinenetwork.org

02085972900

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UN SDGs
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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£137£116£21n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/22£129£100£29n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/21£153£150£3n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/20£269£208£61n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£304£344£-40n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18£478£475£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£432£432£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£468£397£71£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£496£589£-93£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£204£197£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£352£283£69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£200£194£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£225£218£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 1 volunteer
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Barking And Dagenham, Dominica, Iraq, Mozambique, Peru, Philippines, Redbridge, Sierra Leone, Sint Maarten, Ukraine, United States, Zimbabwe,

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 - Betteh Tumara Punduru (Better Tomorrow)
£469,780 21/07/2015
60
Betteh Tumara Punduru (Better Tomorrow)
Comic Relief - Extension of the Betteh Tumara Freetown Vocational Training project
£432,178 27/05/2015
36
60% of young people in Sierra Leone are unemployed or underemployed. Many had their education disrupted by civil war. Lack of appropriate skills in the labour force slows the country's development. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Betteh Tumara Punduru (Better Tomorrow)
£13,902 23/06/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - The Betteh Tumara Project
£448,774 22/02/2012
72
This project, based in the Wellington and East Freetown areas of Sierra Leone, will equip unemployed young adults to create sustainable livelihoods for themselves. Each beneficiary will spend eleven ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 51-59
  • MARK BAIDEN Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Managing Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/02/2010, number: 1134473
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/07/2009, number: 06968371
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting 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

LIFELINE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
LIFELINE HOUSE
25 NEVILLE ROAD
DAGENHAM
ESSEX
RM8 3QS

Objectives

3.1 TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY, INCLUDING (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OFLIMITATION) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND THEPROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH;3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION;3.3 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BETHOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING (THOUGH NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING TRAINING FOREMPLOYMENT FOR THOSE IN FINANCIAL NEED IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT;3.4 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS BY THE REHABILITATION OF PERSONS AFFECTED BY DRUG, ALCOHOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCE ADDITION AND ABUSE AND3.5 TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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