THE BRIDGE TO CROSS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1090166 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. PROVIDING A SUPPORT AND ACCESS CENTRE FOR PEOPLE IN ABERGAVENNY 2. PROVIDING A HOSTEL IN ABERGAVENNY 3. PROVIDING DEBT COUNSELLING AND OTHER PRACTICAL ADVICE. 4. PROVIDING TRAINING COURSES FOR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE 5. PROVIDING A CENTRE TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN ABERGAVENNY.

Objects

(A) THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF SOUTH WALES BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, AND IN PARTICULAR, BT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING(B) THE PROVISION OF RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK, WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION, BY ANY METHOD WHICH SHALL BE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:1. PROVIDING A SUPPORT AND ACCESS CENTRE FOR PEOPLE IN ABERGAVENNY2. PROVIDING A HOSTEL IN ABERGAVENNY3. PROVIDING DEBT COUNSELLING AND OTHER PRACTICAL ADVICE.4. PROVIDING TRAINING COURSES FOR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE5. PROVIDING A CENTRE TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN ABERGAVENNY.

Area of benefit: THE COMMUNITY OF SOUTH WALES AND PEOPLE IN ABERGAVENNY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Monmouthshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity faces increasing essential running costs and describes obtaining financial support as an 'increasing challenge' during financially difficult times. Despite these pressures, the trustees have ratified a new financial reserve policy and continue to receive support from local donors and grants.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dorrell Oliver. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/02/2024, 15 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Bridge to Cross Charitable Trust — “The 7Corners Centre is a project funded by the Bridge to Cross Charitable Trust” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ALISON ELIZABETH STROUDchair
• ANDREW ROBERT WILLIE BA MA
• Caroline Anne Woollard · trustee of 6 other charities
• Geoffrey Alan Freebury
• Michael Marsden

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Monmouthshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED.

• BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £164k
• THE BRIDGE TRUST income £1.0m
• THE IRON BRIDGE TRUST income £380k
• THE BRIDGE RECOVERY COMMUNITY income £33k
• THE BRIDGE PROJECT income £4.7m
• BRIDGES FOR COMMUNITIES income £317k

Side by side with its peers

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