2023-03-31-accounts - Lambeth Links

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Lambeth Links

Trustees’ annual report for the period: 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Lambeth Links

Other names charity is known by None

Registered charity number 1193637

Charity's principal address Ground Floor, Canterbury House

Ground Floor, Canterbury House	Ground Floor, Canterbury House

1 Royal Street
London
Postcode	SE1 7LL

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office(if any)	Dates acted if not for wholeyear
Christopher French	Chair
Claire Louise Boardman	Treasurer
Juan Carlos Trabolsi	Secretary	30-Mar-20 to 21-Feb-23
Gareth Roger Morris		01-May-20 to 01-Apr-22
Dr Benjamin Lawrance Thomas
Julia Rachel Shelley		01-Nov-23 to 17-Jan-23
Sarah Annie Phoebe Merrick
Mx CharleyHasted
Clare Francis Truscott

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Constitution – adopted 20 February 2021

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Trustee selection methods Appointed by existing trustees on a 3-year term.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

To assist with the proper governance of the CIO, we have drafted and abide by the following policies:

Donation acceptance policy
Conflicts of interest and conflicts of loyalty
Public data privacy notice
Trustees’ data privacy notice
Finance policy
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

Lambeth Links’ primary objective is the promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit of people that live, work, or visit the London borough of Lambeth. We aim to accomplish this by:

(a) Aiming to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation;
(b) raising awareness in equality and diversity and the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other marginalised sexual minorities, and non-binary gender persons (LGBTQIA+) and the issues affecting their lives and their communities;
(c) promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds and in particular those from LGBTQIA+ background; and
(d) cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity in particular through celebrating the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Summary of the main In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the Charity activities undertaken for the Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. public benefit in relation to these objects (include within The main activities are as follows: this section the statutory declaration that trustees have • Engagement with the wider LGBTQIA+ community through had regard to the guidance virtual and in-person events. issued by the Charity • Engagement with key public bodies (e.g. Lambeth Council, Met Commission on public Police, Healthwatch Lambeth, NHS South East London benefit) Integrated Care System) to represent and raise awareness about issues impacting the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Developing a framework and training program along with Norwood School to set up a LGBTQIA+ society and creating guidelines that can be followed by other schools in the borough and further afield.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Lambeth Links has continued to advocate for Lambeth’s LGBTQ+ Community, the largest in London and the second largest in the United Kingdom. We have also created opportunities to share learnings with other LGBTQ+ forums from across London.

We continue to create and run events that are specific to the needs and concerns of our Community but also in celebrations of. We have run the following events in this reporting period:

Series of events held to learn what the needs of the LGBTQ+ community in South East London are, in relation to the newly created South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), of which Lambeth is also a part.
• LGBT+ LIFE! Art exhibition as part of LGBT History Month, with talks and events focussing on mental health and wellbeing in communities.
• Held a talk on the needs of the Trans community with regard to health needs.
• Commenced our work on ‘Not Going into the Care Closet’ a series of events around LGBTQ+ ageing and how we are treated when we go into care.
• Our now annual Pride Picnic event in association with Myatt's Fields Park Project.

Section D Achievements and erformance p
• Being present at local community events such as the Friends of Kennington Park Festival.
• Having a stall at Lambeth Country show
• Working with local schools.
• Starting the preparation of an LGBTQ+ specific smoking cessation programme.
We have become an established partner with the local authority, local health and ICS systems, and with the Metroplitan Police. This allows us to directly raise concerns and issues that disproportionally affect our Community. Examples include: • Working with partners to address hate crimes against the Community, with an event to highlight the issues around Hate Crime in Lambeth.
• Coordinated response and to the Monkey Pox outbreak, bringing together community leaders and public health officials.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the Reserves total £19740, of which £16917 are restricted and £2823 are charity’s policy on reserves unrestricted Details of any funds Not applicable materially in deficit

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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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Section F Other optional information

None

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Christopher French
Position (eg Secretary,
Chair, etc) [Chair ]
Date [03/02/2024 ]
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Charity Name No (if any) Lambeth Links 1193637 Receipts and payments accounts ts and payments accounts ayments accounts ments accounts CC16a

Receipts and payments accounts

For the period from	01/04/2022 Period start date	To	31/03/2023 Period end date

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - 490 218 - - - - - - 707 - - - 707 - 707 1,890 1,640 2,823	Restricted funds to the nearest £ 22,000 - - - - - - - 22,000 - - - 22,000 - - 106 6,787 - - - - - 6,893 - - - 6,893 15,107 - 1,890 3,700 16,917	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 22,000 - - - - - - - 22,000 - - - 22,000 490 218 106 6,787 - - - - - 7,600 - - - 7,600 14,400	Last year to the nearest £
Donations andgrants	-				5,605
Activities forgeneratingfunds(trading)	-				37
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	-				5,642

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					5,642

Website and IT costs	490				29
Administration costs	218				50
Advertisingandpublicity					130
Community engagement events, talks & workshops	-				400
Schools engagement	-				69
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*Sub total*	707				677

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
Grant received viapayingagent	-				- 347
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*Sub total*	-				- 347
*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					331

	- 707	15,107	-	14,400	5,311
	1,890	- 1,890	-	-	-
	1,640	3,700	-	5,340	29
	2,823	16,917	-	19,740	5,340

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories B1 Cash funds	Cash at bank Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 2,823 -	Restricted funds to nearest £ 16,917 -	Endowment funds to nearest £
	Cash at bank	2,823	16,917	-
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	*Total cash funds*	2,823			16,917	-
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	account(s))	OK		OK		OK
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		funds			funds	funds
	Details	to nearest £		to	nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets		-			-	-
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B5 Liabilities					-
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print	Name			Date of approval
		Christopher	David French			06/02/2024