BRIDGE SCHOOL MALVERN

Registered charity 1122536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRIDGE EDUCATION CENTRE MALVERN HILLS

We support young people who struggle in the mainstream classroom environment or for young people who have left education without the prospect of further education or employment. We enable them to experience the satisfaction and therapeutic benefit of growing food and caring for animals.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £55,977 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £2,524,495 and total expenditure of £2,468,518. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £288,942, which is below the stated policy target of 20% of annual charitable expenditure. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06362939

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Neil Hornby — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Sue Hornby MBE — Headteacher (source)
• Simon Rowe — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Vicky Gundersen — Head of Sixth Form (source)
• Clare Stanton — Pastoral Care Manager (source)
• Babs Hynes — Teaching & Learning Manager (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SMITH, Nathan Charles — director, appointed 15/01/2026on trustee list
• CROWE, Sarah Caroline — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• CLARKE, Julia Cherry — director, appointed 08/01/2025on trustee list
• QUINT, Graham David — director, appointed 13/11/2024on trustee list
• GABRIEL, Clare Elizabeth — director, appointed 10/09/2024on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Julie Sharon, Professor — director, appointed 03/05/2023on trustee list
• SLATER, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 30/01/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Jane Slaterchair
• Clare Gabriel
• Graham David Quint
• Julia Cherry clarke
• Mark Christian Shingleton
• Nathan Charles Smith
• Professor Julie Sharon Taylor
• Sarah Caroline Crowe

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIDGING THE GAP YOUTH - MERTHYR.

• BRIDGING THE GAP YOUTH - MERTHYR income £168k
• THE BRIDGE CHARITY income £133k
• CAMDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF FRANCES MARY BUSS income £873k
• PATHWAYS CARE FARM income £462k
• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m
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Side by side with its peers

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