Bridging the Gap Youth - Merthyr

A fully inclusive After School & Holiday Club for children with additional learning needs.

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

In Wales

• Merthyr Tydfil

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £168,377 and spent £156,829.

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

Down 19%, from £207,934 in the year to 31 March 2024 to £168,377 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 93% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 2 years shown.

Money from government

29% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£49,066).

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: £4,434 from 2 grants. Government contracts: £44,632 from 2 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £19,818, awarded in 2026.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Daniel Paul BuftonChairAppointed 11 May 2023
• Alison Mary HamerAppointed 11 December 2025
• Andrea Margaret PoppAppointed 11 May 2023
• Sheri Joy JenkinsAppointed 11 May 2023

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

Of the last 2 annual returns that were due, 2 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

1203023

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 May 2023

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 11 May 2023

Council area of its contact address

Merthyr Tydfil

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Merthyr Tydfil Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Merthyr Tydfil's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr