Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Deficit latest year: -2
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +8

Overall GiG Score: 9

EXPERT LINK

The organisation will support individuals to effectively contribute to policies and decisions that affect themthrough delivering workshops, training and advocacy and other forms of support to both beneficiaries andthose who may have contact with them.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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 was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£122,411	£167,641	£-45,230	0
31/03/22	£155,598	£145,369	£10,229	0
31/03/21	£146,011	£40,256	£105,755	9

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

https://www.expertlink.org.uk/

david@expertlink.org.uk

02078404413

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Disability
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other individual and family services

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 And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

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

Lankelly Chase Foundation	£107,800
Trust for London	£68,500
Lloyds Bank Foundation	£29,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Expert Link
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Trust for London - Expert Link
£4,500	29/09/2022	This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-02.02.2021-9012
Trust for London - Expert Link
£64,000	11/06/2021 36	The funding is for homelessness Day Centres across London to develop their ways of working so that people accessing the services are treated as equal partners in strategic decisions within them. ....more The funding is for homelessness Day Centres across London to develop their ways of working so that people accessing the services are treated as equal partners in strategic decisions within them. Those accessing services will also be empowered to collectively influence key Government policies affecting rough sleepers in London.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Expert Link
£100,000	11/01/2021	Expert Link
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Welfare grant to Expert Link
£27,350	07/12/2020 18	18 Months Grant to Expert Link under the Welfare policy and influencing funding programme
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to Expert Link
£7,800	18/05/2020	Expert Link

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

MARNIE BURDEN Appointed: 2020

NICOLA PLUMB Appointed: 2020

PETER JAMES SMITH (Chair) Appointed: 2019

RYAN SNAPE Appointed: 2020

SHANE ROBERT BRITTON Appointed: 2024

STEVEN MARK NEVILLE Appointed: 2019

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/01/2020, number: 1187188

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity 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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
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

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

MINORIES HOUSE
2-5 MINORIES
LONDON
EC3N 1BJ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND NEED AMONGST PEOPLE SUFFERING SEVERE AND MULTIPLE DISADVANTAGE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HOMELESSNESS, SUBSTANCE AND ALCOHOL MISUSE, MENTAL ILLNESS, PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, AND VICTIMS OF ABUSE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, ADVOCACY AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT

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