CHELTENHAM BRIDGE CLUB

Registered charity 1188825 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of the game bridge and the training thereof, for people in Cheltenham and the surrounding area.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT BY PROMOTING THE GAME OF BRIDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF CHELTENHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.2) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE LEARNING, TEACHING AND PLAYING BRIDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF CHELTENHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a healthy financial position with unrestricted reserves of £379,751, significantly exceeding the stated policy targets of £50,000 for operations and £100,000 for a sinking fund. The charity holds substantial cash reserves of approximately £216,000 and entered the new year with net current assets of £151,831, indicating strong liquidity despite a modest surplus of £5,459 for the year.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Wilfred Wearmouth
• Alastair Edward Emery Catchpole
• Ashok Kumar Kwatra
• Helen Janet Bryant
• John Tobias Royan Roberts
• Mary Carew Woolley
• Nigel Foster Burton

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• RICHMOND BRIDGE CLUB income £360k
• The Chiltern Centre Limited income £1.3m
• CANOLFAN DEULU Y BALA income £450k
• CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £442k
• CHELTENHAM ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £118k
• PLYMOUTH HIGHBURY TRUST income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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