Bridges Centre

Bridges is a vital hub for local activity and aims to provide bridges between different sections of the community. It has over 60 activities, support groups, courses and clubs meeting every week. It runs 3 important community projects, provides a base for charities and also offers start up units for small businesses. It attracts over 1,000 users and visitors every week.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Monmouthshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Monmouth & Neighbourhood

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,278,902 and spent £1,297,453.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 21%, from £1,053,894 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,278,902 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 101% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

49% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£630,882).

Largest funder

Gwent Regional Partnership Board gave £322,290 in the year to 31 March 2025, 25% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £539,130 from 5 grants. Government contracts: £91,752 from 5 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 7 funders who gave £760,098 between them. £266,750 of that came from public bodies.

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Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 16 grants to this charity since 2007, worth at least £2,121,614.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 6 November 2025, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Place Scrutiny Committee

  Bridges Petition

  Read the meeting record

• 18 September 2025, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  Submitted by County Councillor Richard John

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• 18 September 2025, Monmouthshire

  Tony Kear declared an interest that names the charity, at County Council

  Submitted by County Councillor Richard John

  Recorded as a personal-and-prejudicial interest.

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• 18 September 2025, Monmouthshire

  Tomos Davies declared an interest that names the charity, at County Council

  Submitted by County Councillor Richard John

  Recorded as a personal-and-prejudicial interest.

  Read the meeting record

• 18 September 2025, Monmouthshire

  Rachel Garrick declared an interest that names the charity, at County Council

  Submitted by County Councillor Richard John

  Recorded as a personal-and-prejudicial interest.

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 13 July 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DM for SS

  Purpose: Bridges Centre.

  Bridges Centre

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10 trustees run the charity.

• Mark WaltonChairAppointed 22 February 2022
• Alison Beard-GunterAppointed 6 May 2025
• Geoff QuinnAppointed 24 April 2018
• Mary Ann RosserAppointed 26 July 2014
• Mrs Jane DukeAppointed 1 November 2022
• Mrs Jane GunterAppointed 1 November 2022
• Robin Barry GibsonAppointed 1 October 2015
• Roger HogginsAppointed 2 May 2023
• Stephen PospisilAppointed 6 August 2024
• Susan EldridgeAppointed 6 August 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1079085

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

25 January 2000

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 OCT 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 NOV 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 JAN 2000AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11 JUN 2016 as amended on 01 Nov 2022

Company number

03853667This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.bridgescentre.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Monmouthshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Monmouthshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen