THE BRIDGE PROJECT

Registered charity 517356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIDGE

Bridge's work includes; providing drug treatment services and recovery focused support to individuals and families; working with people with some of the most complex needs and issues in Bradford; and providing employment, education and training services for people with significant barriers to employment.

Objects

To relieve sickness, poverty and promote social inclusion through the provision of treatment, care, rehabilitation, education, training services, social housing, and housing support, to persons or members of their families who:• Have been, or are, or are in danger of becoming substance misusers.• Have committed or are likely to commit crime.• Have been, or are, or are in danger of experiencing mental health conditions.• Have been, or are, or are in danger of becoming homeless.• Have been, or are, or are in danger of experiencing marginalisation, discrimination or social exclusion.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £151k, reversing a deficit from the previous year, and maintains free unrestricted reserves of £990,309. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are just below the upper policy threshold of £1 million, and the charity remains in a strong financial position with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01946704

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Bridge Project - Bradford (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Sleigh — Chair (source)
• Jon Royle — Chief Executive (source)
• Tracey Hogan — Director of Operations (source)
• Martin Brook — Director of Finance & Support Services (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOBAN, Gavin Thomas — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• KHAN, Nadhia — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• HAIGH, James David — director, appointed 17/06/2026on trustee list
• CLARKE, Lucy Bethan — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• LEWIS, John Bradley, Mr. — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• TRUEBLOOD, Elizabeth Joan — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• GYORGYOVA, Aneta — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• JAFRI, Adeel Ahmad, Dr — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• SUTCLIFFE, Jonathan Richard — director, appointed 18/05/2022on trustee list
• GIBBS, Christopher Stephen — director, appointed 19/01/2022on trustee list
• ROSCOE, Gordon Peter — director, appointed 18/04/2019on trustee list
• BROOK, Martin William — secretary, appointed 17/07/2006

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (12 freehold); recorded price paid £435k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aneta Gyorgyova
• Christopher Stephen Gibbs · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Adeel Jafri
• Elizabeth Trueblood
• Gavin Hoban
• Gordon Roscoe
• James David Haigh
• John Bradley Lewis
• Jonathan Richard Sutcliffe
• Lucy Clarke
• Nadhia Khan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE BRIDGE GROUP income £435k
• BRIDGES CENTRE income £1.3m
• BRIDGES FOR COMMUNITIES income £317k
• THE BRIDGE (EAST MIDLANDS) income £1.1m
• THE BRIDGE TRUST income £1.0m
• THE BRIDGE CHARITY income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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