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.

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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.

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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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 THE NEWBRIDGE PROJECT.

• THE NEWBRIDGE PROJECT income £594k
• THE BRIDGE CHARITY income £133k
• BRIDGE 86 LIMITED income £11.1m
• THE BRIDGE PLUS+ LIMITED income £198k
• SUNBRIDGE ROAD MISSION income £1.1m
• LIFE BRIDGING WORKS income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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