THE WARDENS AND ASSISTANTS OF ROCHESTER BRIDGE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT

Registered charity 207100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q98092203 · also known as ROCHESTER BRIDGE TRUST, THE ROCHESTER BRIDGE TRUST, THE WARDENS AND ASSISTANTS OF THE ROCHESTER BRIDGE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT, THE WARDENS AND ASSISTANTS OF THE ROCHESTER BRIDGE TRUST IN THE COUNTY OF KENT

The maintenance and improvement of two road bridges and a services bridge (known as Rochester Bridge). Care of and access to archives and historical artefacts. The promotion of other charitable purposes through projects and the award of grants for education and research in engineering, agriculture & history; heritage structures; and charitable purposes connected to the River Medway.

Objects

(1) THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BRIDGES (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS ROCHESTER BRIDGE)AND THE APPROACHES THERETO BELONGING TO THE CHARITY AND OF THE BANKS AND CHANNEL OF THE RIVER MEDWAY SO FAR AS THE CONDITIONS THEREOF MAY AFFECT THE MAINTENANCE OF ROCHESTER BRIDGE.(2) THE PROMOTION OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE RIVER MEDWAY BY MEANS OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO: (A) THE EXECUTION AND MAINTENANCE OF WORKS (INCLUDING THE APPROACHES THERETO, WHETHER OR NOT BELONGING TO THE CHARITY) TENDING TO FACILITATE THE PASSAGE OVER, UNDER OR ACROSS THE RIVER MEDWAY; AND/OR (B) THE EXECUTION OF WORKS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE BANKS AND CHANNELS OF THE RIVER MEDWAY SO FAR AS THE CONDITION THEREOF MAY AFFECT PASSAGE OVER, UNDER OR ACROSS THE RIVER MEDWAY; (3) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND PRIMARILY IN THE COUNTY OF KENT.

Area of benefit: PLEASE SEE OBJECTS FOR DETAILS.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets stood at £131.6 million, with unrestricted reserves of £128.8 million held in the Bridges Reserve Fund. The trustees confirm the Trust is viable as a going concern, supported by stable income from property and investments despite a net expenditure on activities of £2.78 million in the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
• 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

69 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (60 freehold); recorded price paid £13.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~237.9 months of spending — in the top quarter 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: 67.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUSSELL GRAHAM COOPERchair
• ALAN LESLIE JARRETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander John Paterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr ANNE FRANCES HELEN LOGAN
• Dr Helen Marie Pascoe
• Ian Michael Summersgill
• John Farmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lars Lemonius · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael David Brown
• RICHARD GEORGE THORNBY
• Raymond Peter Harris
• Russell John Race · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Cambridgeshire · Kent · Kirklees · Lincolnshire · Medway · Suffolk · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION FOR THE RIVER KENNET.

• ACTION FOR THE RIVER KENNET income £559k
• THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST income £1.9m
• WESTCOUNTRY RIVERS TRUST income £4.6m
• THE STONEBRIDGE TRUST income £322k
• THE LANCASTER CANAL TRUST income £26k
• THE ROCHESTER DIOCESAN SOCIETY AND BOARD OF FINANCE income £13.1m

Side by side with its peers

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