Overall GiG Score: 11 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

THE BRIDGES COMMUNITY TRUST 

The relief of poverty, suffering or distress; the advancement of education; the promotion of health; the provision of recreation and leisure facilities in the interests of social welfare; and the improvement of efficiency of charities and community organisations in direct pursuit of their charitable objects by the provision of education and training.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 13 years
(24 years as a company)

www.thebridgescommunitytrust.org.uk

info@bridgescommunitytrust.org.uk

01156710200

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£267£276£-8n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/22£263£286£-23n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£328£286£42n/an/an/an/an/a150
31/03/20£229£219£10n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/19£275£251£24n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/18£301£287£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£304£285£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£298£307£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£399£390£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£379£404£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£304£370£-65£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£318£369£-52£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 12 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Power to Change - The Bridges Community Trust (PU)
£8,000 25/01/2023
Grant to The Bridges Community Trust (PU)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£65,613 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - 21ST CENTURY IT
£10,000 22/03/2019
12
This funding will be used to update the IT equipment and website of this local community support charity. This will enable the organisation to meet the increase in demand for its services.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Bridges Community Trust
£80,000 20/02/2018
36
over three years towards the salary of the finance and operations manager at a community support and employment project working in the Meadows and CLifton, Nottingham
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Meadows Partnership Trust
£14,630 22/09/2016
24
The grant will help improve governance, support the development of the board, provide training and help the charity to develop a longer term strategic and business plan
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Meadows Partnership Trust
£21,000 28/02/2014
The charity provides community consultation, emplyment & family support intatives. This will support the salary of the general manager. This will ensure they can get people into emplyment, ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 28-73
  • JOHN ADAMS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Site Manager
  • KEI CHEUK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Operations Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/01/2011, number: 1139749
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/04/2000, number: 03964101
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR23: 5 days late, AR13: 6 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE LINCOLN SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATION on 02/07/2019
Main office

QUEENS WALK COMMUNITY CENTRE
QUEENS WALK
NOTTINGHAM
NG2 2DF

Objectives

THE OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF INHABITANTS OF THE MEADOWS, NOTTINGHAM, AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SUFFERING OR DISTRESS; THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH; THE PROVISION OF RECREATION AND LEISURE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE; AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF EFFICIENCY OF CHARITIES AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS IN DIRECT PURSUIT OF THEIR CHARITABLE OBJECTS BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOTTINGHAM,

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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