Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 12

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

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 13

THE LINKING NETWORK

Education Consultancy and Training

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

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

Established: 9 years

www.thelinkingnetwork.org.uk

meg.henry@thelinkingnetwork.org.uk

07814213935

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£492	£641	£-149	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
31/03/22	£798	£544	£254	£0	£1,164	£701	15.5	8	0
31/03/21	£897	£658	£239	£0	£911	£430	7.8	8	0
31/03/20	£797	£545	£252	£0	£672	£430	9.5	7	0
31/03/19	£1,131	£890	£241	£1	£420	£337	4.5	7	0
31/03/18	£447	£442	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£347	£294	£53	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£183	£62	£121	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
1 volunteer

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government	£635,988
Pears Foundation	£550,000
Dulverton Trust	£201,000
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund	£80,000
Dunhill Medical Trust	£31,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Dulverton Trust - The Linking Network core costs
£105,000	26/10/2023	The Linking Network core costs
Dulverton Trust - #iwill Rural Intergenerational Linking
£36,000	08/06/2022	#iwill Rural Intergenerational Linking
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Towards core costs
£40,000	23/11/2021	Towards core costs
Alan & Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund - Towards core costs
£40,000	23/11/2021	Towards core costs
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Schools Linking
£194,500	16/09/2021	The Linking Network supports schools and communities to develop a positive, cohesive ethos through schools linking, intergenerational linking, classroom resources and SMSC teacher training
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£250,000	30/03/2021	Schools Linking in partnership with DfE and MHCLG 2021-22
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£50,000	30/03/2021	Pears #iwill Fund: Social Action in Primary Schools - Phase Three
Dulverton Trust - TLN National Programme
£60,000	10/02/2021	TLN National Programme
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£200,000	08/09/2020 12	Schools Linking in partnership with DfE and MHCLG 2020-21
Dunhill Medical Trust - Intergenerational Linking project - Bradford
£31,000	06/05/2020 18	Promoting young people’s engagement with care homes for older people through the care Home Friends & Neighbours framework - Bradford
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - SCHOOLS LINKING
£441,488	01/04/2020	The Linking Network supports schools and communities to develop a positive, cohesive ethos through schools linking, intergenerational linking, classroom resources and SMSC teacher training.
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£50,000	13/09/2019 18	Pears #iwill Fund: Social Action in Primary Schools - Phase Two
Culham St Gabriel's Trust - An SMSC Toolkit for Primary schools
£15,000	03/04/2019	Develop an SMSC Leaders’ Toolkit to support leaders and schools to facilitate high quality SMSC.
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£58,700	08/03/2019 12	Match Funding for Linking Network Members
Dulverton Trust - School and Parent Linking
£15,000	13/02/2019	School and Parent Linking
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£15,000	03/09/2018 6	Pears #iwill Fund: Social Action in Primary Schools Development
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£248,283	27/02/2018 30	National School Linking Network
Culham St Gabriel's Trust - Maintaining and developing the SMSC action research network
£15,000	24/11/2016	Building on previous work to place SMSC on schools’ agendas, and update the SMSC toolkit.
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£375,000	30/11/2015 36	Core funding _x000D_
Pears Foundation - Grant to The Linking Network
£13,725	26/10/2015 4	Core funding

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

AMEERAH TURNER-DESAI Appointed: 2021

BISHOP TOBY HOWARTH (Chair) Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeship: THE TOGETHER INITIATIVE,

REV DENISE JUNE POOLE Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeship: JESUS SHAPED PEOPLE,

WAHIDA SHAFFI Appointed: 2018

YVETTE THOMAS Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: Wycombe Wanderers Foundation,

ZAHRA NIAZI Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/10/2015, number: 1163901

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

8 returns made; all on time

Main office

THE LINKING NETWORK
MARGARET McMILLAN TOWER
PRINCES WAY
BRADFORD
BD1 1NN

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO: 4.1. ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR BY: 4.1.1. PROMOTING SUPPORTING PARTICIPATION IN AND ENCOURAGING PROJECTS INVOLVING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT SOCIAL, RELIGIOUS, ECONOMIC, ETHNIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS; 4.1.2. PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR EDUCATORS AND TRAINERS THROUGH ACTION, RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS; 4.1.3. DEVELOPING RESOURCES FOR USE IN THE CLASSROOM OR OTHER SETTINGS EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS; 4.1.4. OFFERING GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT FOR SCHOOL LEADERS AND GOVERNORS INSTRENGTHENING THE PROCESS OF EMBEDDING LINKING AND CITIZENSHIP WITHIN SCHOOLS. 4.2. ADVANCE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL HARMONY IN PARTICULAR BY: 4.2.1. ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY;4.2.2. FOSTERING UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR SCHOOLS? PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS WITH OTHER SCHOOLS WITH SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT POPULATIONS AND/OR TO WORK WITHIN THEIR OWN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF IDENTITY, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY; 4.2.3. CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY. 4.3. ADVANCE CITIZENSHIP IN CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES

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