Skip to content
Governance Register
Sign inFind yourself
Find yourselfSign in
Search How it works For organisations For professionals

Edition

United Kingdom (current)IrelandUnited StatesNew ZealandCanadaAustraliaScotlandNorthern Ireland

Registered charity · Edinburgh

Link Education International

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2025)
How am I connected?
More
View network map Report an issue

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is Link Education International. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and more
Website
www.linkeducation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Link Education International
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.1m£2.2m
  • 2024£3.5m£3.6m
  • 2023£4.7m£4.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.9m£3.8m
  • 2021£3.7m£3.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants 41%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION AND/OR IMPROVEMENT AND /OR ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA (2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING (INCLUDING STARVATION, SICKNESS OR ANY PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR AFFLICTION) IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WHETHER ARISING AS A RESULT OF DROUGHT, EARTHQUAKE, FLOOD OR OTHER NATURAL PHENOMENA OR BY REASON OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE 2 (A), (B) AND (C) OF MEMORANDUM

Grants received

3 grants · £758,294 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £758,294 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9482007-05-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £508,3462006-02-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £240,0002005-03-31
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

7.3y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 6Other services 1Property 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

6 from 12 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
50%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1048007
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/06/1995AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/12/2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08/01/2014 as amended on 06 Jul 2020 as amended on 15 Jun 2020 as amended on 03 Nov 2020 as amended on 03 Nov 2020 as amended on 03 Nov 2020
Companies House
Company number 03069329 · Active
Contact on the register
info@linkeducation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data