BRIDGING THE GAP ISLINGTON

Registered charity 1162671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Bridging the Gap Mentoring

Bridging the Gap lslington offers trained, supervised volunteer mentors to provide support to people at risk of offending including people who are homeless or addicted to help them to achieve specific short term goals along their chosen path to a more constructive and participative life. We operate in North London, in the area around Islington.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS, BY OFFERING OFFENDERS, EX-OFFENDERS AND PEOPLE AT RISK OF OFFENDING ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT, INCLUDING TO ADDRESS THEIR NEEDS AND PROMOTE THEIR INTEGRATION INTO THE WIDER LAW-ABIDING COMMUNITY , WORKING TOGETHER WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITH SIMILAR AIMS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING A VOLUNTARY MENTORING SERVICE FOR PEOPLE AT RISK OF OFFENDING

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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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that income increased significantly to £31,879, resulting in a small surplus of £1,780 for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £11,252, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately £10,000. However, the trustees note that the organization remains small and vulnerable to short-term funding uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• GREG FOXSMITHchair
• Cllr Ruth Hayes · trustee of 5 other charities
• Lee Wakefield
• ROBIN LATIMER
• Sharmila Rajaratnam

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIDGING THE GAP (MANCHESTER).

• BRIDGING THE GAP (MANCHESTER) income £185k
• The Gap (Midlands) income £52k
• GLASTONBURY BRIDGING THE GAP income £33k
• THE BRIDGE (EAST MIDLANDS) income £1.1m
• BRIDGING THE BAR income £208k
• THE BRIDGE HOMELESSNESS TO HOPE income £532k

Side by side with its peers

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