ST BRIDE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 207607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7592712 · Wikipedia

The St Bride Foundation provides a cultural, social and educational facility in the west of the City of London. The Foundation is the home to the St Bride Library, the Bridewell Theatre as well as number meeting rooms and halls.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, (A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BY PROVIDING GRANTS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PRINTING, THE PRINT MEDIA AND RELATED SUBJECTS, BY PROVIDING SUITABLE COURSES, CONFERENCES AND LECTURES AND BY MAINTAINING AND MAKING AVAILABLE THE CHARITY’S PRINTING RESOURCES AND ARCHIVES AT ST BRIDE LIBRARY (C) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE INHABITANTS AND WORKERS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF THEATRE, DANCE AND OTHER ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS.

Area of benefit: LONDON

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £438,868, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of approximately £435,500 (six months' unrestricted running costs). The organisation reported a net decrease in funds of £2,286 for the year, driven by a net outgoing resource of £83,212 partially offset by investment gains of £39,914.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 6 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
• Volunteer management

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 — ST BRIDE FOUNDATION (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (49% 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: 61.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/09/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Hannah Swatridge
• Becky Louise Chilcott
• Kenjiro James Kirton
• MARK JORDAN
• Martin Donald Scott
• Paul Thomas Mcloughlin
• Philip Sadler
• Rev GILLEAN CRAIG
• Rose Abdollahzadeh
• Savannah Adeniyan
• The Revd Canon Alison Joyce Dr · trustee of 2 other charities
• William Bancroft Rouse · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: City Of London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HERITAGE.

• ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HERITAGE income £5.7m
• ST.FAITH'S COMMUNITY & YOUTH FOUNDATION income £176k
• ST BEDE'S FOUNDATION income £7.9m
• THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF ST KATHARINE income £3.1m
• THE WARDROBE THEATRE income £503k
• STRODE'S FOUNDATION income £115k

Side by side with its peers

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