Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

THE BRIDGE RENEWAL TRUST

The Bridge Renewal Trust delivers practical ways that people can live healthier, long and fulfilling lives thus playing our part in reducing health inequalities and building healthier, safer and stronger communities in Haringey. We work to empower our diverse communities and promote mental health and wellbeing, community safety, local giving and a stronger voluntary sector.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£2,900£2,732£168£107£4,029£3,92517.2520
31/03/22£2,863£2,488£375£105£3,868£3,70317.9380
31/03/21£2,254£2,106£148£96£3,496£3,37519.2390
31/03/20£4,908£1,907£3,001£29£3,348£3,28120.63550
31/03/19£1,575£1,510£65£28£347£3462.72970
31/03/18£1,066£1,090£-24£23£284£2743240
31/03/17£991£925£66£0£309£2983.9180
31/03/16£643£726£-83£0£241£2323.8110
31/03/15£491£487£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£382£436£-54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£309£328£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£688£342£347£30£388£3711340
31/03/11*£179£207£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£209£139£69n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.9%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 17.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 3.1
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 15 years

www.bridgerenewaltrust.org.uk

admin@bridgerenewaltrust.org.uk

02084427640

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Haringey,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£535,000
National Lottery Community Fund£448,824
Home Office£80,904
Greater London Authority£24,216
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Tennis for Mental Health
£7,605 25/10/2023
5
This project will provide 3 x 8-week block of tennis sessions targeted at people with mental health conditions. Each session will be two hours.
Greater London Authority - What If? A VCS Guide to Emergency Planning, Response & Recovery
£5,000 08/09/2023
What If? is an online resource co-designed between the Bridge Renewal Trust, VCS Groups, and the Emergency Planning team at Haringey Council, to help Haringey’s voluntary sector prepare, respond, and recover effectively from emergencies in the ....more
Greater London Authority - What If? A VCS Guide to Emergency Planning, Response & Recovery
£4,253 28/02/2023
What If? A VCS Guide to Emergency Planning, Response & Recovery What If? is an online resource co-designed between the Bridge Renewal Trust, VCS Groups, and the Emergency Planning team at Haringey Council, to help Haringey’s voluntary sector ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to The Bridge Renewal Trust
£300,000 28/06/2022
36
£300,000 over three years (£100,000 x 3) towards a project to build the capacity of Place Based Giving Schemes in London to develop and apply Participatory Grant Making models in a local context.
The Childhood Trust - C-59265
£10,000 28/06/2022
We are raising funds to distribute to local community organisations providing vital support and activities for disadvantaged children and young people in Haringey.
National Lottery Community Fund - Health@theHut
£298,824 10/09/2021
The funding is being used to continue the community-led health and wellbeing project Health@theHut which supports the physical mental and emotional health of residents of the Tiverton Estate and surrounding area in Tottenham. The project will ....more
The Childhood Trust - Haringey Giving Together We Can Appeal
£5,000 22/06/2021
Haringey Giving is raising funds to support children and young people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Haringey. Funds raised will be distributed as grants to local not-for-profit groups and charities and will be used to support a wide range of ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bridge Renewal Trust
£25,000 08/06/2021
£25,000 towards the development of a collaboration of Place Based Giving Schemes to address structural discrimination in accessing funding and support using participatory methods across diverse communities in London.
Greater London Authority - Bridge Renewal Trust (Haringey Food Network)
£14,963 14/05/2021
Capacity building and delivery of food insecurity initiative
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bridge Renewal Trust
£210,000 07/01/2021
36
£210,000 over three years (£90,000; £70,000; £50,000) towards the core costs of the ongoing development of Haringey Giving (HG).
National Lottery Community Fund - Together We Can - Covid-19 project
£150,000 08/12/2020
12
The funding will enable the project to award grants to community groups in Haringey which help vulnerable people with mental health services employability skills and basic essentials such as food supplies. This aims to reduce isolation improve ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 21/22
£80,904 01/04/2020
This grants scheme will enable organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens to help them make their EU Settlement Scheme application by 30 June 2021 and continuing support beyond this date. This support could be provided ....more
Home Office - EU Settlement Grant Scheme Funding 2019-20
£256,444 01/04/2019
This grants scheme is enabling organisations to provide practical support to vulnerable EU citizens through information-giving, advice and provision of technology and assistance to help them make their Scheme application by 30 June 2021. This ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Health@theHut
£345,143 10/01/2018
35
The project will develop the skills and confidence of estate residents to lead positive and healthy activities. A range of activities will be offered to bring together a culturally diverse community to address a range of concerns, such as poor ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Bridge Renewal Trust
£72,900 28/01/2015
36
£72,900 over three years (£24,500; £24,000; £24,400) towards a food growing, cookery and family well-being programme.
National Lottery Community Fund - Weight Away
£10,000 26/11/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Bridge Renewal Trust
£10,000 08/10/2014
Mapping Tottenham's History
London Catalyst - Bridge Renewal Trust - 1
£4,000 21/05/2014
Foot care + service: train volunteers for outreach; social actvity and access to GP
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 47-77
  • CLARE RACHEL HUGHES (Chair) Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Senior Manager
  • GLYN CLARK Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Business Person
  • JOE BAKER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Carbon Management, Haringey Council
  • LORNE HORSFORD Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Electrical Engineer
  • MARY MASON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Consultant
  • MICHELE EASTMOND Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Business Development Manager
  • NATASHA AFFLICK Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Marketing Consultant
  • PAUL BIRTILL Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Director Of Housing
  • YVONNE DENNY Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/09/2009, number: 1131941
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/07/2009, number: 06949568
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR13: 41 days late, AR11: 3 days late,
Main office

LAURELS HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE
256 ST. ANN'S ROAD
LONDON
N15 5AZ

Objectives

3.1.1 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF RESIDENTS IN ANDAROUND THE SEVEN SISTERS AREA OF SOUTH TOTTENHAM, LONDON (THE AREA OFBENEFIT); AND3.1.2 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS IN THE AREA OF BENEFITTHROUGH A RANGE OF INTERVENTIONS INCLUDING TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE TO FINDEMPLOYMENT WHETHER AS AN EMPLOYEE OR ON A SELF EMPLOYED BASIS; AND3.1.3 TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT POVERTY AMONGST PEOPLE LIVING WITHIN THE AREA OFBENEFIT; AND3.1.4 TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND THE SURROUNDINGNEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OFPOLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAIDRESIDENTS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN ACOMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND SERVICESIN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONSOF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE SEVEN SISTERS AREA OF SOUTH TOTTENHAM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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