Annual report & financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
The trustees present their annual report and the audited financial statements
Our Annual Report details our achievements and progress towards our strategic goals; plus our plans for the future, followed by a financial review. This annual report is the last to be delivered under our current strategy, ahead of the launch of our new strategy to 2030.
On behalf of voluntary organisations working in the criminal justice system, and our 500+ members, our activities included:
Understanding
Improved the knowledge and understanding of the role and value of voluntary organisations, especially small and specialist ones among criminal justice system practitioners.
Connecting
Improved our members’ sense of connectedness to us and their ability to get the information, advice, and resources they need. Organisations will have access to support they find useful in a range of areas across England and Wales as well as related to the specific challenges and needs of supporting women, racially minoritised people, families of people in the criminal justice system and working through the arts.
Voicing
Maintained our respected policy voice and our relationships with decision makers grew. We amplified the voice of the sector to ensure that its knowledge and expertise are utilised in the development of practice and policy.
Supporting
Adapted the way we support, promote and represent the voluntary sector, so that how we find and implement solutions to the challenges and opportunities it faces, is embedded into the work of our other strategic objectives.
Developing
Began to develop a new strategy for the future, involving those we aim to serve and the people who will be at the heart of its success. We are aiming to increase the number of organisations we are supporting, especially small and specialist organisations with limited resources. We are working to attract and retain a diverse and valued core staff team with the skills and expertise to meet the needs of our sector. We are continuing to generate income in a way that supports our core functions without compromise. We will be increasingly recognisable as an anti-racist organisation.
Our communications programme
- Hosted 66 events, totalling 1,978 attendees.
- Our social media following grew further in this year with a total of 30,815 followers across the Clinks and National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.
- Clinks sent regular ebulletins, ensuring we delivered vital information to the sector and promoted its work to a wide range of criminal justice stakeholders. We delivered 107 ebulletins and newsflashes over the year to 22,226 subscribers.
- 23 blogs published on a range of topics; delivering timely news, resources and opinion to the sector.
- Clinks produced and published 23 publications during the 2023-24 financial year, including major reports and guides for the sector, briefings, consultation responses and meeting notes.
- Maintained our popular job board. There were 1,833 vacancies posted during the 2023-24 financial year, and that section of the website had over 155,000 page views across the year. Our Directory of Services had over 47,000 page views and our Partnership Finder had over 10,000 page views views.