BRIDGE2AID

Registered charity 1170578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE PRIMARY OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE RELIEF OF PAIN BY PROVISION OF EMERGENCY DENTAL SERVICES AND TRAINING IN EAST AFRICA. THIS PRIMARILY INVOLVES RAISING FUNDS FOR THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY OUR LOCAL NGO PARTNER EH4ALL AND BY ADMINISTRATING VOLUNTEER PROGRAMMES FOR DENTISTS AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS TO BE PART OF OUR TRAINING PROGRAMMES

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PAIN BY THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY DENTAL SERVICES AND TRAINING IN TANZANIA AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF AFRICA OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND OTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stroud, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income more than doubled to £332,557, yet the charity recorded a net deficit of £12,811, reducing total funds to £35,223. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £24,223 fell below the stated policy target of £30,000, a risk the trustees are addressing through cash-flow monitoring and income diversification.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bridge2aid (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abisola Asuni
• Bob Newsome Mr
• Dr Nila Jackson
• Graham Douglas Stokes
• Ian Wilson
• JOHN GORDON MILNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martha Thomas Mwammale
• Patrick Allen
• Robert Dyas Mr

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Malawi · Tanzania

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIDGE CHAPEL.

• BRIDGE CHAPEL income £668k
• THE BRIDGE CHARITY income £133k
• THE BRIDGE GROUP income £435k
• THE BRIDGE TRUST LTD income £223k
• BRIDGE CHURCH MINISTRIES income £146k
• BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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