BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES
Registered charity 1035628 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES TRUST FUND, BRIDGE HOUSE GRANTS, BRIDGE HOUSE TRUST, CITY BRIDGE FOUNDATION, THE CITY BRIDGE TRUST
The maintenance and support of London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Tower Bridge and Millennium Bridge. Surplus income is used for charitable funding purposes benefiting the inhabitants of Greater London in such ways as the Trustee thinks fit.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The charity holds substantial free reserves of £367.7m, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of £90m. Total net assets decreased by £38.4m to £1,493.3m, driven by planned charitable expenditure, though the charity reports sufficient funds to meet its objectives.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
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Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Simon Latham — Managing Director (source)
- Sacha Rose — Chief Funding Director (source)
- Nadia Khalaf — Operations Director (source)
- Henrietta Martin-Fisher — Finance Director (source)
- Jerome Williams — Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£17.3m
Reserves (reported)
£372.8m
Reported reserves equal ~37.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (73% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 40.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).
- THE MAYOR AND COMMONALTY AND CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF LONDON
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout London
Income and spending
Common questions
Is BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity holds substantial free reserves of £367.7m, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of £90m. Total net assets decreased by £38.4m to £1,493.3m, driven by planned charitable expenditure, though the charity reports sufficient funds to meet its objectives. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.
Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES?
Funders whose own accounts filings name BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES as a grant recipient include THE BRIDGE RENEWAL TRUST, THE HAPPY BABY COMMUNITY, Evergreen Care UK, ATTEND, SOCIAL FARMS AND GARDENS.
Known funders
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