THE ABINGDON BRIDGE

Registered charity 1160080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TAB

Abingdon Bridge supports young people aged 11 to 25 across the Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire to improve mental health, build resilience and strengthen community connections. Through professional counselling, early intervention, youth work, outreach and youth led opportunities, we help young people overcome challenges, develop confidence and play a positive role in their communities.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF THE INHABITANTS OF ABINGDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WHO ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 11 AND 25 WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND THE LOCAL INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND SUPPORT IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS 2) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SUPPORT CENTRES AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN COOPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR BODY).

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document is a qualitative impact report detailing service delivery statistics and client outcomes for the financial year ending 2026-03-31. It contains no financial statements, income figures, expenditure data, or reserves information, making it impossible to assess the charity's financial health or liquidity from this text alone.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Abingdon Bridge (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam David McRae
• Dr Gillian Shirley Dean
• Elaine Wade
• Hilary Margaret Daffern
• LAURENCE Dennis KING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luke Mattam
• MICHAEL HAROLD BROWN
• Mark Alistair Wilkinson
• Sandra Comrie Kruger
• Timothy Eustace

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• LAURENCE Dennis KING — trustee here and at CHRIST'S HOSPITAL OF ABINGDON

Known funders

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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 BRIDGE MENTORING PLUS SCHEME.

• BRIDGE MENTORING PLUS SCHEME income £348k
• THE BRIDGE (EAST MIDLANDS) income £1.1m
• THE BRIDGE COUNSELLING SERVICE - WORCESTER income £26k
• BRIDGING BARRIERS income £145k
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• THE BRIDGE PROJECT income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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