The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Linking Network

Registered charity 1163901 CIO Registered since 2015

Operates: Throughout England

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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.

7 trustees on the board

5.1y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (4)

2
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 7Education/training 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 6Disability 1

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

Arts and leisure 1Professional services 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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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£823k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

8.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.8 in 2021

9 from 8 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.thelinkingnetwork.org.uk
Emailmeg.henry@thelinkingnetwork.org.uk
Phone07814213935
AddressTHE LINKING NETWORK, Britannia House, Hall Ings, BRADFORD, BD1 1HX

Finances

£823,196 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£896,770£657,693
2022£797,648£543,919
2023£492,003£640,875
2024£541,456£440,772
2025£823,196£815,385

What it does

What

Education/trainingEconomic/community Development/employmentHuman Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes ResearchActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

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

Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 09 OCT 2015AMENDED ON 19/02/2016

Trustees (7)

7trustees
64median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (4)

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