THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1178918 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Bridge Foundation is a Bristol-based charity that provides accessible, high quality services to a wide range of individuals, professionals and commissioners. Since our formation in 1983, we have grown into a multidisciplinary, psychoanalytic Centre of Excellence, specialising in child and family mental health. We converted to a CIO on 1.4.19. Please see charity 1073759 for previous accounts.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST (THE AREA OF BENEFIT):1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE, SKILLS AND APPLICATION OF PSYCHOANALYTICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY2. THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTSTHROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SKILLS AND APPLICATION OF PSYCHOANALYTICALLY BASED THERAPEUTIC SERVICES ANDTHE PURSUIT OF GOOD PRACTICE THROUGH EDUCATION, TRAINING, CONSULTANCY AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £54,105 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £444,079 to £389,974. The trustees note that the low reserves figure at year-end reflects the purchase of a property in January, leaving free reserves at £25,232, which is below the stated policy target of six months of unrestricted expenditure. Despite the loss of significant ASGSF funding, the trustees and auditors consider the going concern basis appropriate, citing that the new strategic approach is working and contingency plans are in place.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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

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 Bridge Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £107k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Megan Yakeleychair
• Christopher Bird
• Itamar Cohen
• Martin McColl
• Matilda Crowhurst
• Rosamund Grace Burke

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE BRIDGE CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £110k
• THE BRIDGE PROJECT income £4.7m
• THE BRIDGE (EAST MIDLANDS) income £1.1m
• THE BRIDGE BATTERSEA income £181k
• THE BRIDGE CHARITY income £133k
• BRIDGE TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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