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Registered charity · Lincolnshire

Children's Links

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £3.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 6 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.childrenslinks.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Children's Links
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.5m£3.3m
  • 2024£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.9m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2021£1.5m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 50% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION, CARE, EDUCATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND ADULTS, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS PROVIDING SUCH CARE, EDUCATION AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.TO CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THE CARE, EDUCATION AND RECREATION OF SUCH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Grants received

33 grants · £916,423 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 · £757,868 (13 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £50,000
  • Lincolnshire Community Foundation · £28,800 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £19,316
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £19,316

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £16,0002025-01-30
  • Ministry of Defence £50,0002024-09-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-09-23
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £114,6682022-06-30
  • Youth Music £18,8352021-10-30
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.

5 trustees on the board

6.6y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Education/training 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

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 11Professional services 2Retail and trade 1

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.

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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£3.5m latest income
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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.3 in 2021

163 from 74 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.
54%
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
1071058
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/12/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/07/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/07/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/07/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/03/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/08/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/01/2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06/01/2013 as amended on 12 Sep 2023
Companies House
Company number 03484661 · Active
Contact on the register
01507528300 · bdm@childrenslinks.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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