BRIDGE TRUST

Registered charity 1184834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Property owning charity making grants within area of benefit from surplus income

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE BRIDGE TRUST, WITHIN ITS AREA OF BENEFIT (THE TOWN OF BARNSTAPLE AND THOSE PARISHES WHICH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN A RADIUS OF 5 MILES FROM ITS GUILDHALL), ARE:-(1) MAKING GRANTS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF INHABITANTS(2) PROVIDING AMENITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF INHABITANTS(3) GIVING MONEY OR ARTICLES FOR THE BENEFIT OF POOR INHABITANTS(4) MAKING GRANTS TO CHARITIES HAVING AS THEIR OBJECT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY(5) MAKING GRANTS TO CHARITIES HAVING AS THEIR OBJECT THE FURTHERANCE OF PUBLIC PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF INHABITANTS.

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: North Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resources of £21,050 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily driven by charitable expenditure related to a refurbishment project. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £137,128, which the trustees consider sufficient to support general costs, and they confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Townsendchair
• Alan Richard Rennles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Isaac
• Christopher John Horrell
• Councillor Malcolm Stephen Prowse
• Joanna Orange · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Mann
• Mark Haworth-Booth
• Marsh Pullen
• Stephen Corrie James Hattley
• Tom Holmes

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST income £883k
• THE BRIDGE CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £110k
• BRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £209k
• BRID GARDENS income £106k
• THE BRIDGE TRUST income £1.0m
• THE BRIDGE GROUP income £435k

Side by side with its peers

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