BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1129756 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIDGES CHARITABLE TRUST, BRIDGES TRUST

The primary objective of the charity is promotion for the benefit of the public of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic need.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds significant unrestricted reserves of £1,357,731 and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity reported a net income surplus of £328,689 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by investment income and donations exceeding charitable expenditure. Cash reserves increased to £3,684,777, providing strong liquidity despite revaluation losses on programme-related investments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by unclear. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~32.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Newboroughchair
• Alex Pitt
• Anne Marie Carrie
• Christopher West
• Freddie Sexton
• Henry Pepper
• Lucia Santirso Richards
• Maggie Loo
• Tim Simmonds

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Places Foundation.

• The Places Foundation income £996k
• THE PERSIMMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £431k
• THE GENERATIONS FOUNDATION income £138k
• NEW HORIZONS COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE income £1.2m
• BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £164k
• GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST income £8.2m

Side by side with its peers

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