Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

LEADING LINK LIMITED

The main activities undertaken are youth leadership opportunities, Future Proof transitional activities to move into the world of work, building relationships between schools, businesses and families, cross - sector partnership development. Community projects including Carnivals, Celebrations, Community Events,Lead VCSE co-ordinating Northumberland Holiday Provision for families & children.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
30/03/23*£458£426£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/03/22*£234£257£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£242£132£110n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£111£123£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£105£114£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£129£114£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£114£106£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£160£153£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£134£142£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£131£147£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.leadinglink.co.uk

lyn.horton@leadinglink.co.uk

01670 820088

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Support for victims of domestic or sexual abuse
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • North Tyneside, Northumberland,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£33,000
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£21,750
DCMS£9,957
Co-Operative Group£1,912
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Leading Link
£4,000 23/02/2023
Supporting the organisations charitable work in plessey woods in northumberland
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Leading Link
£1,000 19/01/2023
Core costs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Leading Link
£1,912 22/10/2022
Young leaders are critical to the development and operations of the 2021/22 Leading Plan, as they deliver a range of activities across Northumberland to support those impacted by coronavirus.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Leading Link
£1,000 03/02/2022
Project costs for support, training and experiences to new potential young leaders and emerging leaders
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - The organisation’s work to address the emotional and educational needs of young people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
£15,000 27/05/2021
The organisation’s work to address the emotional and educational needs of young people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Leading Link
£15,000 27/05/2021
The organisation’s work to address the emotional and educational needs of young people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - training young leaders in South East Northumberland, activities resources and uniforms
£750 04/02/2021
training young leaders in South East Northumberland, activities resources and uniforms
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,957 24/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - For organisational running costs to support vulnerable communities in South East Northumberland during the Covid19 crisis
£4,000 03/07/2020
For organisational running costs to support vulnerable communities in South East Northumberland during the Covid19 crisis
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - for organisational running costs to support vulnerable communities in South East Northumberland during the Covid19 crisis
£4,000 03/07/2020
for organisational running costs to support vulnerable communities in South East Northumberland during the Covid19 crisis
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - Supporting vulnerable families over the 3 month period who are affected by the Covid-19 virus
£5,000 22/05/2020
Supporting vulnerable families over the 3 month period who are affected by the Covid-19 virus
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting vulnerable families over the 3 month period who are affected by the Covid-19 virus
£5,000 22/05/2020
supporting vulnerable families over the 3 month period who are affected by the Covid-19 virus
National Lottery Community Fund - Living the dream!
£35,000 18/07/2019
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Living the dream!
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - For a Summer Camp for targeted children in Blyth (4x4x4 model)
£5,000 03/07/2019
For a Summer Camp for targeted children in Blyth (4x4x4 model)
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Most Inspirational Group
£2,500 13/03/2019
Most Inspirational Group
Co-Op Foundation - Youth Community Spaces offer
£10,000 20/12/2018
A project to take a youth club around isolated villages via a camper bus that will act as a mobile youth hub
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Leading Link
£4,072 29/11/2017
Help us create a film based around mental and emotional health issues identified by young people as being the greatest cause of concern.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Leading Link
£3,104 04/08/2017
With a community garden young people can develop enterprising, transferable skills, helping to improve lifelong opportunities & employment.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Leading-Link Limited
£60,000 17/10/2016
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Towards core costs to develop and expand support services for young people to rural areas of Northumberland.
County Durham Community Foundation - Doctor Pit Park Sona Play and Dance Arch
£5,500 05/10/2016
Towards improving Doctor Pit Park.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 48-62
  • JAMES PALMER (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Coach
  • KEITH NEWMAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Pr Consultant
  • LESLEY POULTER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Teacher
  • MAXINE GARDNER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • VICTORIA HELEN JUDSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Hr Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/12/2012, number: 1150296
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/02/2011, number: 07528154
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves 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
10 returns made; AR23: 149 days late, AR22: 77 days late,
Main office

Leading Link
16A Regent Street
Blyth
Northumberland
NE24 1LP

Objectives

4. The charity?s objects (?Objects?) are specifically restricted to the following: 1) To act as a resource for young people up to the age of 25 living North of the Tyne by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of: (a) advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals; (b) advancing education; (c) relieving unemployment; (d) providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons. 2) To advance the education by such means as the trustees deem fit, in particular but not exclusively by assisting the provision of facilities not required by the local education authority and promoting learning for pleasure by people no longer in full time employment through the continues development of their individual capabilities, competences, skills and understanding in subjects of educational value. 3) To promote the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged communities of North of the Tyne in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society. 4) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ?socially excluded? means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society). [Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008].

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTH EAST NORTHUMBERLAND

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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