BATH BRIDGE CLUB

Registered charity 1150133 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organised bridge including programmed sessions for social, competition and teaching during the week at Oldfield Old Boys Rugby Club, Shaft Road, Bath BA2 7HP. We also run online events and eduction for our members. See website bathbridgeclub.org

Objects

1) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT BY PROMOTING THE GAME OF BRIDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF BATH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA; AND2) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE LEARNING, TEACHING AND PLAYING OF CONTRACT BRIDGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES OF THE ENGLISH BRIDGE UNION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF BATH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the club experienced steady consolidation and moderate growth in 2025, with membership rising to 420. Per the trustees' report, the club is financially viable within its current footprint, having determined that premises extension costs were too high. The club maintains good rules for health and safety and has refined medical incident procedures following a recent incident.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Laurence Cooper
• Susan Jane Hutchinson

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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