Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 5

No PartB

All male board: -3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 2

THE BRIDGE CHURCH, CHEPSTOW

Religious activities / Spiritual and practical care of, and provision for, the community.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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	£170	£146	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/22	£119	£123	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/21	£129	£118	£11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/20	£148	£161	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/19	£111	£121	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/18	£94	£125	£-31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£156	£115	£40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£84	£99	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£90	£101	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£185	£92	£93	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£86	£59	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£48	£58	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£49	£50	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£43	£44	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£38	£34	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£21	£18	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£7	£9	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£5	£4	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£6	£9	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£6	£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 27 years

www.thebridgechurch.online

admin@thebridgechurch.online

07943851799

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Religious Activities

GiG Classification

Christian congregations

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Monmouthshire,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
50 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£13,537
Garfield Weston Foundation	£5,000
The Bishop Radford Trust	£1,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Bridge Church Chepstow
£1,500	29/07/2022	Early intervention and mentoring programme, liasing with schools and mentors, holding 6 meetings per year.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000	21/05/2021	Kitchen Project
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID 19 Finance for Foodbank accommodation
£9,000	19/01/2021 12	The Bridge Church in Chepstow will use £9000 to continue to accommodate Chepstow Foodbank. Bydd Eglwys y Bont yng Nghas-gwent yn defnyddio £9000 i barhau i letya Banc Bwyd Cas-gwent.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 - Emergency Storage for Chepstow Foodbank
£4,537	22/06/2020 3	The Bridge Church Chepstow will use £4537 to create storage space to enable the local foodbank to keep supporting families and individuals pushed into food poverty by COVID-19. Bydd Eglwys y Bont ....more The Bridge Church Chepstow will use £4537 to create storage space to enable the local foodbank to keep supporting families and individuals pushed into food poverty by COVID-19. Bydd Eglwys y Bont Cas-gwent yn defnyddio £4537 i greu lle storio i alluogi'r banc bwyd lleol i barhau i gefnogi teuluoedd ac unigolion sy'n cael eu gwthio i dlodi bwyd gan COVID-19.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Gender Split

KEITH CHARLES BREWS (Chair) Appointed: 2023

MARTYN ENEVER

PAUL EDWARDS Appointed: 2014

BRIAN DOUGLAS LLOYD Appointed: 2024, Other trusteeship: PARTNERS ACROSS THE MILES,

MARTIN JOHN COLEMAN, Other trusteeship: THE CHEPSTOW RAINBOW TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/07/1997, number: 1063495

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

Unit 1A Critchcraft Buildings
Bulwark Industrial Estate
Bulwark
CHEPSTOW
Gwent
NP16 5QZ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN PRACTICE CHEPSTOW

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