Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 9
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION 

The Bridge Foundation is a Bristol-based charity that provides accessible, high quality services to a wide range of individuals, professionals and commissioners. Since our formation in 1983, we have grown into a multidisciplinary, psychoanalytic Centre of Excellence, specialising in child and family mental health. We converted to a CIO on 1.4.19. Please see charity 1073759 for previous accounts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
Established: 6 years

www.bridgefoundation.org.uk

info@bridgefoundation.org.uk

01179424510

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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£963£826£138£30£405£2623.8187
31/03/22£762£682£81£21£267£2594.6148
31/03/21£607£578£29£9£187£1683.5123
31/03/20£664£506£158£17£158£1583.7106
31/03/19£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 65%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 39.6
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 18 employees
  • 7 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
Henry Smith Charity£229,000
Quartet Community Foundation£72,982
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£56,947
Cheshire Community Foundation£5,095
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£1,500 26/07/2023
As requested by the donor towards the provision of psychotherapy and counselling for individuals, children and families.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£120,000 08/02/2023
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towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing in-school psychotherapy support for primary school children in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£36,482 11/11/2022
As agreed by Quartet's board of trustees at their September 2022 meeting - to release the endowment and revenue fund incomes to Bridge Foundation as per their request and in line with the original ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£1,500 15/06/2022
As requested by the donor towards the provision of psychotherapy and counselling for individuals, children and families.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£1,000 22/03/2022
As requested by the fund holder to on support the provision of high quality psychodynamic therapy to children and their families to make a difference at the earlier stages of life.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Act Now - for children's mental health
£5,095 21/10/2021
The Bridge Foundation specialises in providing high quality counselling and psychotherapy for children experiencing poverty and multiple disadvantage supporting them to overcome trauma and achieve ....more
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£56,947 21/10/2021
27% of salaries over 2-years for family mental health specialists to support vulnerable families in Hartcliffe, Bristol.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£1,500 26/07/2021
As requested by the donor towards the provision of psychotherapy and counselling for individuals, children and families.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£10,000 21/07/2021
11
To invest in operational infrastructure, specifically an Impact Management and Data Analysis Project to support and evidence a strategic approach to service development, impact and sustainability.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£1,000 23/03/2021
As requested by the fund holder.
Quartet Community Foundation - Teenage Trauma Support
£20,000 16/03/2021
36
For a research programme to find a psychological approach to resolve trauma issues which are creating incontinence problems in teenage refugees.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Bridge Foundation
£109,000 11/09/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of the 'Bridge in Schools' project, providing mental health support to children in local primary schools in Bristol and North East ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Bridge in Schools
£22,000 28/09/2018
10
The third year of a three-year award from the Henry Smith Charity towards providing mental health support to children in primary schools.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/06/2018, number: 1178918
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
  • 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
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION on 23/12/2020
Main office

13 Sydenham Road
Bristol
BS6 5SH

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST (THE AREA OF BENEFIT):1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE, SKILLS AND APPLICATION OF PSYCHOANALYTICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY2. THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTSTHROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SKILLS AND APPLICATION OF PSYCHOANALYTICALLY BASED THERAPEUTIC SERVICES ANDTHE PURSUIT OF GOOD PRACTICE THROUGH EDUCATION, TRAINING, CONSULTANCY AND PROMOTION OF THE ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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