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The Linkage Community Trust Limited

To assist by such means as are charitable any persons who are vulnerable or disadvantaged whether by reason of learning or other disability or difficulty or otherwise through the provision of services to support them, and to enable them to develop...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £26m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Disability, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, East Riding Of Yorkshire
Website
www.linkage.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Linkage Community Trust
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£26m£24m
  • 2024£22m£21m
  • 2023£19m£19m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£17m
  • 2021£16m£15m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 93% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

To assist by such means as are charitable any persons who are vulnerable or disadvantaged whether by reason of learning or other disability or difficulty or otherwise through the provision of services to support them, and to enable them to develop their potential for learning, self-determination, independent living and employment, and to maintain and improve their quality of life.

Grants received

14 grants · £7,427,167 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 Heritage Fund · £5,943,188 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £988,173 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £250,000
  • BBC Children in Need · £110,625 (2 grants)
  • Postcode Community Trust · £75,000

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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.

9 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 9Disability 9Education/training 9

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 14Business services 8Finance 5

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£25.6m 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 11.1 in 2021

780 from 587 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.
98%
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
504913
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 14 JANUARY 1976 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 4 NOVEMBER 1985, 28 SEPTEMBER 1998, 26 MAY 2004, 17 OCTOBER 2005 AND 16 APRIL 2008 as amended on 01 May 2019 as amended on 27 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 01240377 · Active
Contact on the register
01790755073 · info@linkage.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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