Finance Score: 6

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 10

Good reserves management: +3
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +10

Overall GiG Score: 19

FAMILY LINKS (EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES)

Family Links is a national charity dedicated to the promotion of emotional health at home, at school and at work. We offer high-quality training in the Nurturing Programme to promote the development of good emotional health and relationships. Our aim is to enable children and adults to realise their individual potential, enjoy positive relationships and live healthy and fulfilled lives.

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Positives:

Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Established: 27 years

www.familylinks.org.uk

info@familylinks.org.uk

01865401800

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/08/22		£1,483	£1,193	£290	£59	£961	£747	7.5	16
31/08/21		£917	£903	£14	£47	£671	£491	6.5	14
31/08/20		£915	£949	£-35	£49	£657	£452	5.7	15
31/08/19		£1,260	£1,024	£236	£51	£692	£593	6.9	15
31/08/18		£1,278	£1,142	£136	£45	£456	£361	3.8	14
31/08/17		£1,281	£1,640	£-360	£64	£320	£267	2	24
31/08/16?		£2,110	£2,148	£-38	£62	£680	£642	3.6	24
31/03/15		£1,575	£1,566	£9	£40	£717	£660	5.1	21
31/03/14		£1,440	£1,457	£-17	£44	£708	£625	5.1	19
31/03/13		£1,210	£1,275	£-65	£34	£726	£656	6.2	15
31/03/12		£1,104	£1,059	£45	£40	£791	£702	8	13
31/03/11		£1,217	£1,037	£180	£47	£746	£719	8.3	13
31/03/10		£905	£856	£49	£49	£566	£511	7.2	13
31/03/09		£927	£865	£61	£55	£517	£510	7.1	13
31/03/08		£749	£645	£105	£50	£455	£432	8	15
31/03/07	*	£617	£560	£57	£43	£351	£324	6.9	12
31/03/06	*	£460	£443	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05	*	£382	£345	£36	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04		£338	£300	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.9%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 20%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 78%
Reserves/Spending: 7.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 1.8

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

16 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Dulverton Trust	£170,000
Tedworth Charitable Trust	£49,500
Garfield Weston Foundation	£25,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards the production of a second series of podcasts
£14,500	25/01/2024	towards the production of a second series of podcasts.
Dulverton Trust - Family Links - Core Funding
£70,000	26/10/2023	Family Links - Core Funding
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Towards the production of a series of podcasts
£15,000	31/03/2023	Towards the production of a series of podcasts
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000	22/10/2021	Improving and supporting emotional health in adults and children throughout the UK
Dulverton Trust - Family Links core funding
£100,000	21/10/2020	Family Links core funding
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Pilot imaginative play courses
£20,000	20/02/2020	Towards a pilot training course for childcare professionals on how to encourage routine imaginative play.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£30,000	25/01/2019	Core funding to support nationwide parenting provision for schools and the community.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Family Links
£21,390	24/05/2018 16	Supporting vulnerable young women throughout their parenting journey, targeting graduates of the Family Nurse Partnership Scheme
Wates Foundation - Family Links 2018
£30,000	15/05/2018	For core funding to expand work and to reach parents of teenagers throughout the UK.
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Salary of Head of Programmes
£40,000	16/03/2018	Towards the salary of the Head of Programmes.
Dulverton Trust - Core funding
£75,000	14/06/2017	Core funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	05/05/2017	Core Costs
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Family Links (Educational Programmes)
£45,000	09/06/2016 36	Towards the support of 114 practitioners to scale up the Parenting Programme with Islamic values to Muslim families.
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding
£60,000	19/05/2016 24	Towards core funding of its work empowering children, parents, families and schools to be emotionally healthy
Tedworth Charitable Trust - Evaluation of 'Welcome to the World' ante-natal workshop
£12,500	11/11/2014	Towards an evaluation of the 'Welcome to the World' ante-natal workshop.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Family Links
£120,000	12/09/2013 36	towards three years' salary of the Operations Director at an organisation that works to improve parenting and positive learning for disadvantaged children across the UK

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 28-79

DR HILARY FRANCES EMERY CBE (Chair) Appointed: 2019

EMMA MARGARET JUDGE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Psychologist And Leadership Consultant, Other trusteeship: THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE,

GORDON DOUGLAS BEACH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Banker

MASOOD HASSAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Management Consultant And Trainer

ROSALIND JEANNETTE PORTMAN Appointed: 1997, Occupation: Counsellor

THOMAS PEASE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Data Scientist

VANESSA IRIS EMMETT Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Self-Employed Project Director

WENDY ELIZABETH ROSE OBE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Honorary Research Fellow

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/05/1997, number: 1062514
Registered at Companies House on 24/02/1997, number: 03323287

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR07: 283 days late, AR06: 651 days late, AR05: 1 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from FAMILY STABILITY NETWORK on 07/11/2022

Main office

UNITS 2 & 3
FENCHURCH COURT
BOBBY FRYER CLOSE
OXFORD
OX4 6ZN

Objectives

TO EDUCATE TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONALS, PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN PARENTAL CARING AND NURTURING AND RELATIONSHIP SKILLS AND PREVENTION OF NEGLECT AND ABUSE IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELING, SEMINARS, TRAINING COURSES AND INCREASING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THESE ISSUES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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