THE BRIDGE TRUST

Registered charity 204536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIDEFORD BRIDGE TRUST

To provide charitable relief within its area of benefit as prescribed by the scheme of the charity, namely Bideford and its immediate neighbourhood. This excludes Barnstaple and Torrington and all areas beyond.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF BIDEFORD AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF BIDEFORD AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £688,319, which is above its stated aspiration of £600,000. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £451,724 for the year, primarily driven by charitable grant expenditure exceeding investment income. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Glover Stanbury. 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 40.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM GEORGE ISAACchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anthony Thomas Inch
• Douglas Bushby
• ELIZABETH JUNKISON
• ERIC ARTHUR HUBBER
• JUDE GUBB · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenneth Hind
• Peter Lawrence
• Peter Ralph Sims · trustee of 1 other charity
• SALLY JOY ELLIS
• Sadie Louise Green
• Shirley Langford

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE BRIDGE CHURCH, CARDIFF income £374k
• BRIDGE TRUST income £1.3m
• THE BRIDGE GROUP income £435k
• THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST income £883k
• THE BRIDGE CHURCH RETFORD income £64k
• THE BRIDGE TRUST LTD income £223k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.