2024-03-31-accounts - Lambeth Links

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Lambeth Links

Trustees’ annual report for the period: 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024

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
	1 Royal Street
	London
	Postcode	SE1 7LL

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 5 7 8 9	Trustee name	Office(if any)	Dates acted if not for wholeyear
	Christopher French	Chair
	Claire Louise Boardman	Treasurer
	Dr Benjamin Lawrance Thomas
	Sarah Annie Phoebe Merrick
	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:

Complaints Policy
Data Privacy Policy
Equality and Diversity Policy
Health and Safety Policy
Donation acceptance policy
Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Loyalty
Public Data Privacy Notice
Safeguarding Policy
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Lambeth Links’ primary objective is the promotion of equality and Summary of the objects of diversity for the public benefit of people that live, work, or visit the the charity set out in its London borough of Lambeth. We aim to accomplish this by: governing document (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.
• Attending Lambeth Country Show again (in a now regular capacity)
Partnering with Friends of Myatt Fields Park to deliver a Pride Picnic to the community
• Continuing engagement with statutory bodies such as Lambeth Council, Local Health Partnerships and the Met Police.
• First paid member of staff employed.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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We thank our Board of dedicated volunteer trustees who continue to provide their time to make sure Lambeth Links keeps on linking.

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

Section D Achievements and performance

Our overall main achievement for this reporting year has been the Summary of the main recruitment of our first paid employee. Thanks to a grant from Lambeth achievements of the charity Council’s Social Value Fund we now have a Project and Governance during the year Coordinator to help with the work of the charity.

We received 52 applications to the advert and invited 12 to interview. It was great to receive so many applications and have a wide pool from which to recruit. We are incredibly pleased to have been joined by Cheyanne Henderson (she / they) who has added much needed support and value from the very beginning.

In recognition of our volunteer board of trustees, we successfully collaborated with a local charity, Age UK Lambeth, a contract that means they employee Cheyeanne who is then seconded to Lambeth Links. This means that Cheyanne has the full support of an organisation with the relevant policies and procedures in place to ensure proper support and also means that payroll, PAYE etc. is taken care of, reducing the administrative burden on volunteer trustees.

Section D Achievements and erformance p

We continue to engage with statutory and other voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations. We have:

Continues close cooperation with the Met Police about hate crime and other offences against our community. We ran jointly a hate crime stall at a local LGBTQ+ venue.
We had another extremely successful LGBT+ LIFE! Art exhibition as part of LGBT History Month, with more contributors sharing their art.
Held our annual stall at the Lambeth Country Show.
Held our annual Pride Picnic event in association with Myatt's Fields Park Project.
Continued our work on ‘Not Going into the Care Closet’ series of events around LGBTQ+ ageing and how we are treated when we go into care, and ran community workshops on:
Care at Home
Safeguarding
Mental Capacity and Lasting Power of Attorney
Care homes
Spoke on the Inclusion in Sport Panel at Surrey County Cricket Club as part of Pride Month
Continued our work on the Landmark for the Landmark project, to recognise the Landmark HIV Centre in Lambeth.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Reserves total £58651, of which £56032 are restricted and £2619 are unrestricted

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Not applicable

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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

We have received money from Lambeth Council to recruit and employ a project governance coordinator. They are employed by a third-party charity (Age UK Lambeth) and seconded to Lambeth Links. Therefore, Lambeth Links is not an employer.

There are a number of large-scale projects such as the GLA’s Untold Stories Project in Lambeth that will come to fruition in the next financial year.

investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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

Signature(s) Full name(s) Christopher French Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Chair ] Date[28/10/2025 ]

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Receipts and payments accounts							CC16a
For the period from		Period star? aa; 01/04/2023	To	snc ".a's 31/03/2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds	Endowment funds	Total		funds Last year
to the nearest £		to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the	nearest £ to		the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations and grants	165	55,000				55,165	22,000
Sub total (Gross income for AR)	165	55,000				55,165	22,000
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Sub total I
	165][	55,000 I L	3L			55,165
A3 Payments
Website and IT costs							490
Administration costs	388					388	218
Advertising and publicity							106
Community engagement events, talks &
workshops		15,866				15,866	6,787
Sub total	388	15,866				16,254	7,600
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Sub total \|
Total payments [	388	15,866 I L	3L		16,254	L
Net of receipts/fpayments)	223	39,134				38,911	14,4001
AS Transfers between funds	20	20
A6 Cash funds last year end	2,823	16,917			19,740		5,340
Cash funds this year end	2,619	56,032			58,651		19,7401

		Unrestricted	Restricted	Restricted	Endowment
Categories	Details	funds		funds	funds
		to nearest £	to	nearest £	to nearest £
B1 Cash funds	Cash at bank	2,619		56,032
	Total cash funds	2,619		56,032
	(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	OK			',.,'
		Unrestricted	Restricted		Endowment
		funds		funds	funds
	Details	to nearest £	to	nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the
charity's own use
		Fund to which	Amount due		When due
	Details	liability relates	(optional)		(optional)
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print	Name		Date of approval
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