THE WARDENS AND ASSISTANTS OF ROCHESTER BRIDGE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT — grant history

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Latest income

£3.9m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£413k

Accounts grants total

£514k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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Credited as a funder by

Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

SLOUGH FORT PRESERVATION TRUST “The Slough Fort Preservation Trust would like to thank The Rochester Bridge Trust for their generous grant of £10,000 to”
HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST “Three students at Harper Adams University have become Scholars on a programme run by a charitable trust linked to one of”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (3 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (3 grantees)
Education/training (1 grantee)
General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Religious Activities (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Medway (3 grantees)
Kent (2 grantees)
Ealing (1 grantee)
Hounslow (1 grantee)
Kingston Upon Thames (1 grantee)
Merton (1 grantee)
Richmond Upon Thames (1 grantee)
Throughout England (1 grantee)
Bexley (1 grantee)
Wandsworth (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Kingston University	—	£201k
new	University of Sheffield	—	£94k
new	Kent Agricultural Society	—	£64k
new	Medway Towns Rowing Club	—	£21k
new	The Historic England Trust Foundation	—	£20k
new	SLOUGH FORT PRESERVATION TRUST	—	£13k
not listed	St Nicolas Church, Thanington	£10k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Kingston University	FY2025	£201k	research project to design, manufacture and install bespoke reflectors on the New Bridge
University of Sheffield	FY2025	£94k	PhD researching new stone masonry bridges and £30,000 for the development and delivery of a new taught module as part of the civil and structural engineering course
Kent Agricultural Society	FY2025	£64k	funding aspects of Living Land and Living Land Village for 2024 and the next few years
Medway Towns Rowing Club	FY2025	£21k	a new IV sculling rowing boat
The Historic England Trust Foundation	FY2025	£20k	a six month work experience placement in the heritage sector
Slough Fort Preservation Trust	FY2025	£13k	restoration to a quick return ammunition lift
St Nicolas Church, Thanington	FY2024	£10k	repairs to the 19 Century lychgate
Folkestone Leas Lift Company	FY2023	£25k	renovation of a historic carriage on the Folkestone Funicular Railway
Chatham Historic Dockyard	FY2023	£500	Donations of surplus materials
Bridge Owners Forum	FY2023	£500	website development
Habitats & Heritage	FY2023	£500	Sir Joseph Bazalgette's Mausoleum
Rochester Cathedral	FY2023	£500	Donations of surplus materials
St John Fisher Catholic School	FY2023	£500	interpretation boards
St Mary Magdalene Gillingham Green	FY2023	£500	restoration of the tower of a 12th century church
The Folkestone Leas Lift Company	FY2023	£500	restoration of a passenger carriage for the funicular railway
Rochester Cathedral	FY2022	£15k	paving restoration
Churches Conservation Trust	FY2022	£12k	restoration of the spire at St Mary's Church, Higham
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust	FY2022	£12k	grant in kind (surplus materials)

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 413247 vs reference 514253 (19.6% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.