LINKAGE COMMUNITY TRUST

1. LINKAGE COMMUNITY TRUST 2016-01-18 → present
2. LINKAGE COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED(THE) 1976-01-14 → 2016-01-18

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Streets Audit LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. LINKAGE COMMUNITY TRUST · parent
   1. Linkage Trading Ltd · England and Wales · conduct of commercial activities that support, promote or otherwise enhance the aims and objectives of the Trust.

Significant events

• “The year 2023/24 saw Linkage Community Trust develop its new Corporate Strategy 'Nothing About You Without You 2023-28' alongside its ongoing commitment to providing individuals with learning disabilities, autism or both, quality education, care and support in enabling them to achieve further independence.”
• “our College saw the number of places grow to 221, and our Linkage Choices day service continues to thrive.”
• “We relocated our Linkage Choice day service in Lincoln to Weaver Road, offering further facilities and opportunities to the people we support. We also further developed our Linkage Choices provision in East Riding.”
• “The Trust's five-year Digitalisation Plan, launched in 2019, continued at pace and during the year we introduced a digital care planning system called Nourish, a new finance system, a payroll system and continued to improve our reporting through our business intelligence platform via the use of Power Bi.”
• “Following the successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the £503k development stage of a new project for a sustainable and inclusive future for the Weelsby Hall Estate, we carried out emergency roof repairs. ... A subsequent application was made to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for £3.5 million which was successfully awarded in September 2024.”
• “Throughout the year we have also worked with the Blueberry Academy to look at how we could work together to expand the services Linkage offer across the Yorkshire region and am delighted to report that they joined our Group shortly after year end in October 2024.”
• “Very sadly, our dedicated Chair, Mark Smith, unexpectedly passed away in December 2024.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +11.2%

  £19,499,581 → £21,685,714

• Cash

  +64%

  £861,285 → £1,412,134

• Net assets

  -15.9%

  £23,727,610 → £19,952,068

• Employees

  +10.7%

  616 → 682

• Operating profit

  -4.4%

  £697,179 → £666,202

• Profit before tax

  +30.1%

  £714,358 → £929,349

• Wages

  +19.3%

  £12,169,502 → £14,514,944

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers