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2022-03-31-accounts

The Bridge Project

Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements

31st March 2022

35 Salem Street Bradford West Yorkshire BD1 4QH

Registered Charity No. 517356 Company Limited by Guarantee No. 01946704

Contents

Our Objects, Mission, Vision and Values 2
Recovery Statement 4
Trustees Annual Report 5
Impact of the Covid Pandemic 5
Review of Activities and Performance 6
Our Plans for the Future 20
Financial Review 21
Governance, Trustees and Stakeholders 23
Organisational Policies 25
Statement of Trustees Responsibilities 27
Independent Auditor’s Report 28
Statement of Financial Activities 32
Balance Sheet 33
Statement of Cash Flows 34
Notes to the Financial Statements 35 - 48

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Our Objects:

To relieve sickness, poverty and promote social inclusion through the provision of treatment, care, rehabilitation, education and training services to persons or members of their families who:

Our Mission:

To empower people experiencing multiple barriers to achieve positive change.

The priorities for Bridge are to work with individuals, families, partners and communities to:

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Our Vision:

We deliver services that are life changing for our beneficiaries. We have an organisational culture that enables us to be the best we can be and maximises the impact of our resources.

We are an organisation where excellence is seen as the norm and our services, solutions and programmes are fresh, innovative and tailored to meet the needs of the people we work with.

People come to us because we believe in their potential and they know they will be treated with respect, care and compassion. Our staff share our mind-set, are highly motivated and will always strive to do their best for their service users.

Partnerships are meaningful and productive and we work with other organisations, commissioners and stakeholders to build stronger, safer and sustainable communities supporting each other in the process.

We constantly strive to learn and challenge ourselves to improve and to achieve our purpose. We value and honour our history and the wealth of knowledge we have accumulated, looking ahead to give hope and a better future for our beneficiaries of tomorrow.

Our Values:

Bridge is a value driven organisation. These strong values are at the heart of all we do as we believe in people’s ability to change and their right to high quality services:

Integrity – always doing the right thing.

Compassion – not judging the people who use our services, responding to them with kindness and understanding.

Empowerment – enabling people to achieve their full potential

Equitable – respecting each person’s uniqueness and treating them fairly

Ambition – striving for excellence

Sustainable – ensuring we are in for the long haul

Boldness – willingness to take calculated risks and having courage to face challenges

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Recovery Statement:

Recovery is the common outcome all Bridge services aim to achieve. Recovery is a journey of transformation enabling a person with a substance misuse problem to live a meaningful life in a community of his or her choice while striving to achieve his or her full potential.

Bridge will use the following core principles to build resilience and facilitate recovery:

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Trustees’ Annual Report

The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, submit their annual report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standards applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.

Impact of the Covid Pandemic:

This report reviews service delivery and performance for the year up to 31[st] March 2022, the second year of the Covid pandemic in the UK. Following the third national lockdown in January and February 2021 there was then a general easing of restrictions from March through to July. However, social distancing measures and restrictions were re-introduced in December 2021 due to the Omicron variant, these were then relaxed in early 2022.

As in the first year of the pandemic Bridge remained fully operational and client focused throughout 2021-22. The charity continued to follow all guidance and appropriate advice to minimize the spread of Covid within our staff and client groups. Face to face work was undertaken in a Covid safe manner, most business meetings continued to be held virtually, and where there was no impact on service delivery staff were able to work from home if appropriate. No funding was lost due to the pandemic.

Review of Activities and Performance

Bridge’s individual services are detailed below, reporting on activity and performance, they have been split into five main headings which cover all aspects of our service delivery. It should be noted that the methods of recording and reporting performance data varies between services, depending on contractual arrangements. Bridge use the Eclipse case management system for most of the contracts held directly, whereas the data for the Liaison and Diversion service, MoJ Horizons project, and New Directions is held by the respective lead organisation, as such the outcome data available does vary between services.

Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery

New Directions – Bradford’s Adult Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery System

New Directions is a partnership between Change Grow Live (CGL), The Bridge Project, and Project 6, delivering an individualised, recovery focused service for adults (18+) wishing to make positive changes to their drug or alcohol use.

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New Directions has three main delivery hubs and also works across the Bradford district from a range of GP surgeries and community venues providing information, advice, and treatment including 1-1, group and peer support. The service supports people experiencing difficulties with illegal drugs, alcohol, prescription medications, mental health, and steroid use.

As part of the New Directions partnership Bridge provides specific programmes and interventions including:

Change: Working primarily with people who are not using opiates and alcohol users who are drinking at harmful, but not dependent levels. This team provides an enhanced brief intervention programme, based on individual need, to reduce or stop their drug or alcohol use, typically 6 sessions, but potentially up to 12 for crack cocaine users. The Change team holds a caseload of approximately 165 clients at any one time.

During the year, in response to Covid, the team has provided support predominantly online and via telephone with face to face gradually restarting in GP practices as the restrictions eased. Evening sessions have been provided for those who are employed or unable to attend during the day.

This team also facilitates treatment groups, up to 10 per week during the year both online and face to face. Support includes:

In 2021-22 the programme supported approximately 500 people.

Low Need High Recovery Capital: This team holds a caseload consisting of service users whose primary addiction is either alcohol, opiates, or both; and have progressed through structured opiate and alcohol treatment, including inpatient alcohol detoxification programmes; and are making significant improvements to their recovery and social re-engagement status.

The team work on a 1-1 basis, enabling service users to continue on their recovery journey, supporting them to identify and reach the next steps including health, training, education, activities, and volunteering. For those not abstinent the team work alongside CGL’s prescribing team to continue safe prescribing including detox.

During the year the service supported approximately 500 service users. Progress for many service users has been challenging to maintain, due to the impact of Covid, but with the new, flexible approaches there have continued to be notable successes for our clients.

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Addiction to Medications (ATM): This service has been nationally acclaimed as a model of good practice and has brought involvement with various influential bodies such as the All-Party Parliamentary Group. By working in conjunction with GP practices and based within the practice, this service helps individuals who have become dependent on prescribed opiate-based painkillers.

In the previous year the service had moved primarily to online delivery with one-to-one support and group sessions held virtually by the ATM worker and the peer/volunteer supporters. In 2021-22 101 people were supported.

Concerned Others: Provides a service to parents, grandparents, partners, or other family members of drug/alcohol users, which is delivered during both day and evening sessions. Bridge provides both one off support sessions and structured interventions to those concerned or struggling with someone else's drug or alcohol use. The service has a 0.5 FTE worker who has seen continued high volumes of request for support. Caseload is up to 35 individuals at one time and over the year 65 individuals have received support.

The Vault Recovery Café: Prior to the pandemic the café provided a safe, peer-led environment for people wanting to address and or continue their recovery journey, as well as providing affordable meals and hot drinks for up to 40 people per day. Due to the ongoing Covid restrictions, the Vault remained closed throughout 2021-22. However, a larger Covid safe space in the city centre was rented from March 2021 and face to face recovery focused groups met daily throughout the year.

The Recovery Activity guide continued to be produced which:

Volunteering:

Bridge’s volunteer programme provides a pathway for people in recovery from substance misuse issues and others from across Bradford to use their skills, knowledge and experience in support of our service aims. Volunteers inspire and provide hope through visible recovery and enable Bridge to enhance capacity across many services. The programme offers-:

Volunteers have continued to be involved in roles since the start of the pandemic, however this has been at a lower level than previous years due to restrictions on face-to-face work. Volunteers continued to complete hours on site in-line with infection control procedures whilst others moved to online and telephone roles. A number of new roles were developed to meet the needs of clients and to support service delivery. Volunteer roles include:-

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Outcomes 2021-22:

One80 – Bradford’s Young Person’s Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Services

Bridge provides a comprehensive drug and alcohol service for young people up to age 21 living across Bradford district who are concerned about their substance misuse issues. A team of 3 FTE specialist substance misuse support practitioners provide a confidential and personalised service for young people helping them to identify issues with drugs and alcohol and develop a tailored care plan focused on their strengths and needs, alongside clear risk and safety education around their use. The staff team works in close partnership with the young person, and anyone involved in their life. This may include family members, children’s social care, schools, youth offending team, CAMHS and wider networks of support that are important to the young person.

The service also supports family members, friends, schools, social workers, and other professionals who are concerned about a young person’s use of drugs and alcohol.

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With ongoing school closures and other restrictions during the year the service worked flexibly to increase access, providing remote and on-site access in order to build resilience and capacity for young people.

Outcomes 2021-22:

During the year a six-month pilot project was undertaken in partnership with Breaking the Cycle and Bradford Royal Infirmary, which aimed to reduce the numbers of young people involved in gang crime. A Bridge worker provided proactive outreach to young people involved with substance misuse and not engaged/connected with One80. The legacy of the project including shared learning across the partnership and new referral and support pathways with Breaking the Cycle.

Spacious Places

Following an approach from the Trustees of the Spacious Places charity in 2020, Bridge merged with their charity in September 2021 and took on responsibility for their services. Spacious Places is an abstinencebased, non-residential programme, which operates in Leeds city centre. It is based on the 12 Step teaching of organisations such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous for both men and women (18+) in Leeds who want to achieve recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

The service offers

Outcomes 2021-22

During 2021-22 Bridge funded this service using residual funds transferred from Spacious Places along with ongoing donations from supporters of the service. Bridge’s aim was to seek long-term funding for the service through grant applications, unfortunately as of September 2022 no additional funding has been found and it is planned to close the service in December 2022.

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Complex Needs

WY-FI legacy: Multiple Needs Navigator Service

This is a continuation of the West Yorkshire Finding Independence (WY-FI) programme in Bradford, funded since June 2020 by Bradford Council and retaining all elements of the original project. Like a number of Bridge’s recent new services it uses a navigation model for the implementation and delivery of services.

The MARB (Multi Agency Review Board) partners remained fully committed and continued to meet monthly throughout the year. Meetings continued virtually with managers attending from; National Probation Service; New Directions; Housing – Local Authority & Multiple Needs providers; West Yorkshire Police – Integrated Offender Management; Bradford District Care Trust – Integrated Outreach Team ; Bevan Healthcare.

Outcomes 2021-22:

Although there are now several multiple needs services delivered across the district, targeting specific cohorts, the need for the most disadvantaged people with multiple vulnerabilities who struggle to maintain engagement continues, and service demand remains high.

Universal Grant - Substance Misuse Navigation Service

In 2021 Bradford Council received additional funding, through the Government’s Universal Grant for Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery, to build capacity within substance misuse provision. Bridge are working together with CGL and Project 6, as part of the New Directions partnership to ensure the aims of this grant are met.

Bridge is delivering a navigation service to individuals who have a primary substance misuse issue but who also have more significant multiple unmet needs, to support their preparation and engagement with treatment provision while also working to address their wider unmet needs. The Bridge team consists of 3 full-time and two part-time workers. The service launched in the summer of 2021, and funding has now been extended through to 2023.

Outcomes 2021-22:

The service received 72 referrals, which has resulted in

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The Lotus Project

This is a multi-disciplinary team designed to engage with commercial sex workers in the Bradford and Airedale areas with multiple unmet needs and vulnerabilities. The team consists of five Liaison Case workers and, due to high levels of intimate partner violence, coercion, control, and sexual assaults, one specialist Independent Domestic Violence Advocate/Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (IDVA/ISVA). The team are community based and conduct evening street outreach sessions to improve engagement.

The service works holistically with the service user to develop a package of care to suit their individual needs such as accessing housing, drug treatment, physical, mental, and sexual health, benefits/finances as well as supporting service users who are experiencing domestic and sexual violence/abuse

Lotus service users are predominantly women, but a small number are men or transgender. The majority have complex disadvantages including drug and/or alcohol dependency, poor physical and mental health, domestic and sexual abuse trauma, children removed from their care, self-harm/suicide attempts, homelessness, or poor-quality housing in addition to sex working. They are often the most vulnerable, high risk and most difficult to engage groups that Bridge works with.

The service works with the Safeguarding and Precision Police Teams to manage both victim risks for domestic and sexual violence and protection work for trafficked victims including foreign nationals. Bridge chairs a multi-agency safeguarding meeting which is held each month with partners from both voluntary and statutory agencies spanning Police, NPS, CRC, Bevan Healthcare, Bradford District Care Trust, housing, and substance misuse to discuss and plan for the management of highest risk cases and coercive controlling violent linked individuals.

Outcomes 2021-22:

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Lotus Housing Project

The Lotus Project has long acknowledged that access to suitable housing for this client group has been the single major barrier for them to achieve a settled lifestyle. Without stable housing in place staff have found it difficult to progress clients’ recovery and assist them to successfully develop routes out of, and exit, sex working. In response Bridge have developed a new housing project specifically for this client group. Bradford Council have provided enhanced levels of Housing Benefit for clients referred into the project and this funding enabled Bridge to recruit a Housing Support Officer (HSO), who started in July 2021.

The HSO has developed pathways and relationships with several private landlords across the district. The positive relationships that have been developed have built confidence with the landlords that renting to Bridge to support this client cohort is good business for them. The additional support from the HSO helps maintain the tenancies and reduces the need for the landlords to intervene or be intensively engaged with the rentals.

The HSO supports all aspects of the clients housing needs (e.g. rents, property maintenance, repairs, appliances and other resources). The Lotus Project staff provide full case management for all health and social care needs. In this way the clients are receiving a co-ordinated package of care and support which maximises their chances of making and maintaining positive change in their lives.

Outcomes 2021-22:

Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) Navigator Service

MARAC Navigators provide intensive one-to-one support for both victims and/or perpetrators of domestic abuse to help them make positive changes in their lives that, reduce the risks associated with their personal situations, and improve their health and wellbeing.

Referrals to the service are made directly from the MARAC meetings and navigators work with small caseloads of typically 10 cases each. The overarching aims are to:

The service is unique in that nationally it is the only service that works with, and supports, both the victim and the perpetrator in the relationship with each having their own Navigator.

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Funding for this service increased during the year and as result Bridge’s delivery team increased from three to four MARAC Navigators including one senior worker. Further funding was also awarded in June 2022 to provide additional specialist staff.

Outcomes in 2021-22:

NatWest Circle Fund

Bridge received a grant of £2,500 to provide support for victims of domestic abuse, through the Lotus Project and MARAC services. £2,462 was spent during 2021-22 on emergency secure accommodation for vulnerable clients, and providing basic furniture and white goods to clients moving into new homes to ensure they were properly equipped, safe and welcoming homes.

Housing First

Housing First is an internationally evidenced intervention, which has proven success in supporting people with multiple needs and vulnerabilities to maintain housing. The main premise is that an individual should not need to prove they are ready for housing and is instead given a permanent offer of their own home, along with an intensive long-term support package to enable them to maintain it.

In 2018 Bridge launched a pilot project to deliver the housing support element of Housing First across Bradford district. The pilot was subsequently extended to 2021, then in October 2021, following a tender process, Bridge were awarded a three-year contract.

Referrals to the programme are through the Complex Housing Needs Panel which meets monthly to broker housing solutions for the service users referred.

Outcomes 2021-22:

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Homeless Outreach Partnership (HOP)

This is a multi-agency partnership providing services to the street homeless, aimed at identifying and reducing rough sleeping within the city, one of Bridge's Housing First workers is embedded within this team.

Top Of Town Project

A group of key community safety partners from West Yorkshire Police, Bradford Council, voluntary and private sector started meeting in 2020 to co-ordinate responses to crime and anti-social behaviour in the area around the Oastler Centre in Bradford city centre an area commonly known as the “Top of town”. As a result of these meetings a pilot project was funded through the Council’s Safer Communities team. Bridge were funded to provide a part-time navigator and part-time peer mentor to provide proactive navigation to individuals selected from a list of people engaged in anti-social behaviour, street drinking, or begging in the target area. Twelve individuals were selected by the Police. The pilot ran from June 2021 through to March 2022.

Outcomes 2021-22:

Learning from this pilot will feed into new service development, and some elements of the service have continued through other Bridge services working in the city centre.

Alcohol Safe Space

A pilot project funded by Bradford Council’s Public Health team to tackle issues associated with alcohol intoxication in Bradford City Centre’s night-time economy. The pilot was due to start in December 2020, however due to Covid lockdowns the launch was delayed until June 2021 and ran through to March 2022.

The project provided a safe space for people visiting Bradford city centre pubs and clubs on Friday and Saturday evenings. This dedicated safe space, at our Salem Street premises, was designed to ensure people received support for alcohol intoxication and minor injuries, including those seeking refuge from vulnerable situations while out in the city centre.

Outcomes 2021-22:

There were 20 referrals to this pilot project of which:

The learning from this pilot will assist in the development of any similar services in the future.

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Rough Sleeper Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant

In late 2021 Bridge was awarded additional funding via Bradford Council from the Government’s Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant for a new project aimed at reducing homelessness and rough sleeping across the district. Recruitment of two full-time posts, a navigator and a recovery support worker was undertaken in the spring of 2022, with the service launching in April 2022. Activity and outcomes will be detailed in next year’s report.

Criminal Justice

Liaison and Diversion (L&D)

Liaison & Diversion is a multi-agency service, led by Wakefield Council, running across West Yorkshire, working with all ages who have become involved in the criminal justice system with the aim of diverting individuals away from crime and into health, social care or other support organisations. The partnership includes the NHS, West Yorkshire Police, Touchstone, Together Women, and Bridge.

L&D services identify people who have mental health, learning disability, substance misuse or other vulnerabilities when they first encounter the criminal justice system as suspects, defendants, or offenders. They focus on the causes of individual behaviours and deliver person centered support to reduce risk factors associated with offending and signpost people to longer term support as required.

Bridge is the substance misuse specialist within the partnership, providing staff members in each of the five council areas and also the expertise training and support around substance misuse. Bridge's support-time recovery workers, in addition to holding a caseload, offer screening in the custody suite. All those who agree to come onto the caseload are offered time-limited outreach support to connect to the right services, organisations, and available support in the community. This may include health/social care, community activities, education, and mental/physical health. Referrals for L&D can only be made from a criminal justice service, with these primarily coming from the custody suite. Caseloads for the support-time recovery workers is between 25-30 clients at any one time.

During the year Bridge’s staff team increased from five to eight, with the addition of an arrest referral senior worker, and two court and community link workers in Calderdale and Wakefield.

The arrest referral senior worker has been highly successful integrating test on arrest within the Liaison and Diversion model as an alternative to embedding with substance misuse service. The court and community link workers were both developed with enhanced partnership working between court, probation, L&D, and drug services, and have increased uptake of drug rehabilitation requirements and alcohol treatment orders in court.

Bridge’s support-time recovery worker in Wakefield now also acts as the youth lead in that area.

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Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Horizons Project

This MoJ funded a three-year pilot project, which provided housing choices for people leaving HMP Leeds, ended in July 2022. The aim was to reduce homelessness and re-offending amongst men leaving HMP Leeds who wanted to settle in West Yorkshire. The service ensured that support was given prior to release from custody to identify suitable housing. Intensive support was provided by a skilled navigator team under the leadership of a lead navigator, and then guidance was provided for a further two years post release whilst living in the community.

The service was led by Inspire North, operating across the whole of West Yorkshire with Bridge the delivery partner for the Bradford district and also contributing across West Yorkshire with clients housed in Huddersfield and Calderdale.

Entry to the scheme closed in August 2020 to allow the maximum of 2 years support in the community

Outcomes in 2021-22:

Education, Employment, and Training

Stronger Families

Stronger Families applies a multi-agency approach supporting parents and families to overcome barriers to training, education and employment across the Bradford district. The service is delivered via outreach, meeting parents/families in their own homes, community centres, or other locations that meet the needs of the individual. Referrals come from various sources, professional and self-direct to the Stronger Families hub and are allocated out to partner organisations.

Stronger Families support was adapted as families adjusted to school closures and isolation periods during the year.

As a partner provider in Bradford, Bridge started the year with two keyworkers, and during the year successfully tendered for an additional two additional posts, with 2.5 FTE keyworkers in post at the year end and a further post approved but in recruitment at the year end. The keyworkers work intensively with the families for up to 6 months to overcome barriers to training, education, and employment. The work takes place in the community providing face to face and remote support in an agreed venue, which may include their home, local park, children’s centre, school or cafe.

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Outcomes 2021-22:

Stronger Families Peer Mentor Programme

This was a fixed-term pilot, volunteer programme that ran for 12 months up to September 2021. Bridge had successfully tendered for this pilot programme and employed a full-time worker who covered both Leeds and Bradford. The aim of the programme was to work with participants who had completed the Stronger Families programme and provide an opportunity for training and education within Stronger families itself. The programme was co-produced with participants of the Stronger Families’ parent participation group, with regular meetings on progress, reviews, development, and ideas, in order to promote a peer-led approach and a sense of connection and identity to the programme.

Outcomes for Oct 20 to Sept 21:

DWP Treatment Link Service

Up to January 2022 Bridge provided two specialist substance misuse treatment workers, one working across Bradford, the second across Leeds, Wakefield & Calderdale. The workers supported Jobcentre Plus work coaches to identify customers with unmet substance misuse treatment needs, and pro-actively supported customers to access specialist services. Having a specialist treatment worker based within a Jobcentre Plus provided DWP staff with access to support pathways to provide their customers with an opportunity to make significant positive changes to their lives. Customers were able to access support on a wide range of complex social issues that affect them and their families. Unfortunately, due to a change in DWP’s contracting arrangements both these contracts ended in January 2022.

Outcomes 2021-22:

Bradford

Leeds, Wakefield and Calderdale

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SkillsHouse

This a new service, launched in Spring 2021, and is a partnership led by Bradford Council that includes educational organisations, voluntary services providers, and employers. The service helps connect out-ofwork residents to jobs and training. Bridge employs two full-time workers who provide free, impartial information, advice and guidance helping Bradford residents into employment and training. Support includes:

Outcomes 2021-22:

Communities, Early Intervention, and Prevention

Community Partnerships

During 2021-22 Bridge employed three staff working across two Bradford based Community Partnerships supporting GP practices to promote engagement and healthy living awareness raising campaigns.

Living Well Champion - South Community Partnership 10

This was a part-time post working across the South Community Partnership 10 area. The service had been significantly impacted by Covid in the previous year with the worker heavily involved in supporting the GP practices with Covid immunisation work. 2021-22 saw a gradual return to normal service delivery and the main activity highlights during the year were:

Unfortunately, due to changed priorities within the locality funding for this contract ended on 31[st] March 2022.

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Affinity Care Community Partnership

Bridge has two full-time posts working within this Community Partnership: a Living Well Champion and a Volunteer Co-ordinator. In addition, Bridge’s CEO is the Vice Chair of the leadership team representing the Voluntary and Community Sector. Much of the year’s work involved supporting the successful roll out of the Covid vaccination programme and coordinating the many volunteers who stepped forward during this critical period. Bridge continued to develop and grow the network of volunteer Practice Health Champions who provide a range of community activities and support groups across the Community Partnership footprint. The Living Well Champion produced a regular newsletter highlighting healthy living activities, maintained the social media platforms and continued to deliver targeted initiatives addressing health inequalities, health awareness campaigns and events.

Together Talks Telephone Befriending Service

This service was developed by Bradford Council, the local NHS and the Voluntary and Community Sector, in the early stages of the pandemic as a response to the lockdowns and the social isolation experienced by some. This multi-agency initiative is hosted by Bridge, and aims to:

Telephone Befriending is an opportunity to engage with a Befriender. Volunteer befrienders offer their time to support and discuss hobbies, interests and enable individuals to discuss their feelings. The service provides a human connection, incorporating active listening, emotional support and signposting to other services and provision of reliable information. The service has positive impact on social isolation and the fear, anxiety or loneliness that can often be experienced by suffer such isolation. Volunteer befrienders make regular contact with people by telephone to give opportunities for positive connections and peer support for any issues they wish to discuss.

In response to growing demand Together Talks are now working in partnership with a range of specialist services across the Bradford District to offer bespoke services to targeted groups – these include Domestic Abuse survivors, Early Help families, and adults in receipt of social care.

Together Talks, enables individuals to develop a trusting, non-judgemental and supportive relationship with a volunteer, encouraging them to become more socially included.

Volunteer Telephone Befrienders complete online training which includes safeguarding, equality & diversity, telephone security, best practice and our code of conduct. All Volunteer Telephone Befrienders have a valid and current DBS certificate, have completed a telephone interview and a reference check. The Volunteer Telephone Befrienders are managed by a friendly, dedicated, and professional team called the Together Talks Support Team

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Outcomes 2021-22:

Wellbeing strand: 2,879

Adult Social Care strand: 483

Early Help strand: 443

Plans for the Future:

People We Support

We will listen to the voice of the people we support and ensure that they are at the heart of everything we do. The cost-of-living crisis has a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable, and within our resources we will endeavour to ameliorate the impact, through additional measures such as free food and clothing donations.

Growth

Our services continue to be a high demand and our reputation for quality ensures we enjoy a high degree of success when tendering or bidding for new business. We will build on our successful “Navigation” model, retain and secure new business and expand our footprint. This year the contract for Bradford Adult Substance Misuse Services will be retendered backed by increased government investment. We are confident, that together with our partners we will retain this contract and increase our market share.

Recovery Housing

We will evaluate our Recovery Housing pilot and consider whether to expand this area of work, including a feasibility study into becoming a Registered Provider.

Organisational Review

We will conduct a comprehensive review of all our operations informed by feedback from staff, the people we support and key stakeholders. We will invest in our central support arm to ensure that we are fit for purpose and to enhance the quality and effectiveness of our services.

Digital

We will continue to roll out our case management system Eclipse and invest in our digital platform. Covid created new ways of working and we will ensure we have the digital capability to facilitate this, for example via remote working. We will launch a new website.

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People

Recruitment and retention is a key challenge affecting the health and social care sector. We will re-engineer our recruitment processes and ensure that we have highly competitive terms and conditions to attract and nurture the best talent. Our training, support, supervision, and culture will create the conditions to ensure our people will be the best that they can be.

Premises

We will invest in our premises, including some long-standing remedial work to ensure that our environment is psychologically informed and of high quality. We will create additional space for our expanding staff group and build a new engagement and dignity suite for people with complex needs.

Jon Royle Chief Executive Peter Sleigh Chair of Trustees

Financial Review 2021-22:

Last financial year covered the second year of the Covid pandemic, with ongoing precautions during the year, but thankfully a steady return towards “normality”. Bridge continued to deliver services as close to normal as practically possible, whilst working within the necessary Covid protocols, and utilised the new forms of remote or virtual working developed in the previous year. As in 2020-21 there was no negative financial impact on the charity due to the pandemic.

After a few years of relative stability and modest growth 2021-22 saw Bridge’s income increase by just over a fifth, 20.1%, to £3,037,406. The additional income came from various sources, and covered a wide range of services. There were two new services commissioned by Bradford Council, SkillsHouse, and Substance Misuse Navigators. Funding for several existing services increased during the year; Liaison and Diversion, MARAC, and Stronger Families services all had increases in staffing and contractual funding. Bridge ran two Bradford Council funded pilot projects during the year, Alcohol Safe Space and Top of Town. These new services, pilots, and increases in service delivery income can be primarily attributed to Bridge’s excellent staff teams delivering successful services and outcomes for our local communities.

2021-22 was also a positive year for donations, with £17k received from a number of benefactors during the year, whom we thank greatly for their generosity. The planned merger with Spacious Places took place in September 2021 with a transfer of £81k of residual funds showing as income. The financial statements also include £78k of grant funding received in advance for two projects launching in 2022-23.

Bridge’s income is nearly all service delivery related, as such expenditure is closely linked to income, and the largest proportion of our expenditure is on service delivery staff. Staffing numbers increased from 60 to 73 FTE over the year, and total expenditure increased 17.6% to £2,702,832.

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The accounts show a total net increase in funds of £334,574. Of this, £150,000 has been transferred to a designated fund for the planned refurbishment of the Salem St premises in 2022-23, and £60,231 was used to repay the outstanding mortgage on 30 Manningham Lane. After the transfers between funds unrestricted free reserves increased by £41,836 to £818,367, within our reserves policy. Designated funds held £1,262,407, of which £882,146 was the net book value of the freehold premises, the remaining £380,261 was held in four funds as detailed in the note 25 to the accounts. £226,176 was held in sixteen restricted funds, linked to specific contracts, grants, or donations, with the expectation that funds will be spent in 202223 or future years as appropriate.

Once again, I’m able to report that Bridge is in a secure financial position, with funds set aside for a significant refurbishment project planned for 2022-23 and free reserves that can be drawn on to invest in the organisation as needed.

Bridge’s budget for 2022-23, based on ongoing contracts and services, projects a positive financial outcome for the year. As in recent years the expectation is that there will be growth during the year through new or expanding services. The current utility and other inflationary increases are being managed within existing budgets and aren’t projected to have a significant impact on Bridge’s finances. We’re fully aware of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on our staff and service users and are supporting them as best as possible.

Autumn 2022 will see the re-tendering of the Bradford Adult and Drug Treatment and Recovery Service (New Directions), just over a quarter of Bridge’s income, with a new contract starting in April 2023. Whilst Bridge is a part of a partnership-based bid aiming to be successful, the diversification of funding streams over the last ten years means that the organisation is far less reliant on this individual contract than in the past. Although the loss of this contract is a risk, Bridge purposefully diversified and developed its strong financial position to mitigate against this and other potential financial risks, and as such will be able to continue delivering vital services to our communities whatever the tender decision.

In 2023 I hope to be able to report on a successful tender outcome, as well as another positive year of organisation growth and financial stability.

Martin Brook

Director of Finance and Support Services

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Governance, Trustees and Stakeholders

Registered Office: 35 Salem Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 4QH

Governance:

The Bridge Project is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 12/9/1985 and registered as a charity on 17/4/1986.

The company was established under a Memorandum of Association that established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. Under those Articles, the members of the Board of Trustees are elected at the AGM.

Members of the board of trustees, who are directors for the purposes of company law and trustees for the purposes of charity law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report are listed below.

Members of the charitable company guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charitable company in the event of a winding up. The total number of such guarantees at 31st March 2022 was 8 (2021:8).

Board of Trustees: trustees serving at the date the Trustees’ Annual Report was approved were:

Peter J Sleigh (Chair) Gordon Roscoe (Vice Chair)
Mohanlal P. Mistry Andrew Clayton-Stead
Marisa Lloyd Christopher Gibbs
David Memery Jonathan Sutcliffe (appointed 18thMay 2022)

Two trustees left the board during the financial year 2021-22 (2021: 0) Melva Burton, 25[th] November 2021 Ralph Berry, 20[th] January 2022

One trustee, Samantha Lunnon, left the board, on 25[th] July 2022, after the end of the financial year but before the Trustees Annual Report was approved.

All trustees give their time voluntarily and received no personal benefits from Bridge. Any expenses reclaimed from Bridge are set out in note 9 to the accounts.

Organisation:

The board of trustees administers the charity. The board normally meets five times per year (January, March, May, July, October). Additional meetings are called if trustee decisions are required outside this pattern. A Chief Executive is appointed by the trustees to manage the day to day operations of the charity. To facilitate effective operations, the Chief Executive has delegated authority, within terms approved by the trustees, for all operational matters.

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Company Secretary: Martin W Brook (Director of Finance & Support Services)

Senior Staff:

Jon Royle Chief Executive Tracey Hogan Director of Operations Martin Brook Director of Finance and Support Services Sally Black Director of Human Resources

Pay Policy

The pay of senior staff is set by the board of trustees. The trustees benchmark senior staff salaries against pay levels for equivalent roles in other similar sized organisations in the health and social care sector. Salaries are reviewed annually and normally increase in line with any inflationary uplift awarded to the wider staff team.

Trustee Recruitment:

A skills audit of the current trustee board members is undertaken annually, this identifies the range of skills, knowledge and experiences that it would be beneficial for the board to contain. Recruitment is undertaken by word of mouth, and appropriate people are sought as required to fill any current skills/experience gaps on the board.

Trustee Training and Induction:

An induction process for new trustees is in place, which includes a detailed induction pack, explaining their role as trustees and the work of Bridge. Trustees are given a full introductory tour of the services and introduced to staff. Trustees are invited to attend staff meetings and a scheduled programme of visits to all services is in place, with reports back to all trustees.

Stakeholders:

Service users; family, carers and friends of service users; Bridge’s staff and volunteers; City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council; Big Lottery Fund; NHS Bradford District and Craven CCG; Bradford VCS Alliance; Department for Work and Pensions; European Social Fund; Jobcentre Plus; Ministry of Justice; Public Health England; South 10 Community Partnership; Affinity Community Partnership; Wakefield Council – Liaison and Diversion service; West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

Auditors: BHP LLP, New Chartford House, Centurion Way, Cleckheaton, BD19 3QB A resolution proposing BHP LLP to be re-appointed as auditors of the charitable company will be put to the AGM.

Bankers: CAF Bank Ltd, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4JQ

The Co-operative Bank, 14 King Street, Leeds, LS1 2HL

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Organisational Policies:

Investments:

Under its Memorandum and Articles of Association the charity has the power to make any investment, which the Board of Trustees sees fit. Bridge currently aims to keep between £10,000 and £50,000 in its current accounts, with a fluctuating sum of between £100,000 and £350,000 held in an instant access deposit account to manage the organisation’s quarterly cash flow cycle. The remaining funds are held in fixed term deposit accounts, of varying lengths, aiming to achieve the best possible interest rates available.

Reserves:

Bridge’s reserves policy is reviewed annually, most recently in March 2022, and was last amended in March 2020. The current policy is to hold a minimum of £500,000 of free unrestricted reserves at any time. This minimum amount was calculated by assessing the organisation’s specific needs relating to the following three aspects of financial management: monthly cash flow requirements; working capital requirements; loss of income contingency planning. A target had been set in 2020 of reaching at least £800,000 reserves by March 2022, with an upper limit of £1 million held. This policy was approved as the trustees envisage a potential need for significant organisational development and infrastructure investment within the next three to five years.

As of 31[st] March 2022, Bridge’s free unrestricted reserves totalled £818,367 (2021: £776,531). These reserves are of an acceptable level as set out in the policy. Bridge also held £181,500 of freely accessible funds in a designated fund for future expenditure on premises repairs (2021: £24,500), and £51,302 (2021: £82,437) designated for business development work over the next two years.

Fundraising activities:

Bridge does not actively fundraise but appreciates the donations from the public. The charity does not use any professional fundraiser or commercial participator to carry out activities on the charity’s behalf.

Due to the low level of fundraising the charity undertakes, the charity is not a participant of a voluntary scheme for regulating fundraising, or any voluntary standard of fundraising for the activities carried out on behalf of the charity. Should the charity at some point in the future undertake a specific fundraising campaign or start to generate more income through fundraising, the trustees will look to sign up to a voluntary fundraising code.

Risk Management:

A full risk management review of the organisation was undertaken in May 2022 as part of the strategic plan’s review, this will feed into the development of Bridge’s next three-year strategic plan for 2023-25. This plan is reviewed on a six-monthly basis.

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The Director of Operations in partnership with the Deputy Director of Operations and Team Managers undertake and review risk assessments for the organisation’s day-to-day service provision on an ongoing basis.

Public Benefit:

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17(5) of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit ‘Charities and Public Benefit’. This Trustees’ report clearly sets out Bridge’s charitable objects, our current activities and how they benefit the public.

Tangible fixed assets for use by the charity:

Details of movements in fixed assets are set out in note 12 to the accounts.

Recognition of Liabilities:

Liabilities are recognised when there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the organisation to the expenditure.

Going Concern:

The Board of Trustees has reviewed Bridge’s activities, financial position and risk management policies together with factors likely to affect future development, including the impact of the pandemic and economic uncertainty on contract income and service delivery. The trustees have concluded that it is reasonable to expect Bridge to have adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the going concern basis of accounting continues to be adopted in preparing the financial statements.

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Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also the directors of The Bridge Project for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

So far as the trustees are aware:

Peter Sleigh Chair of Trustees Date: 19[th] October 2022

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of The Bridge Project

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The Bridge Project (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 31 March 2022 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of The Bridge Project (continued)

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other

information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustee’s report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of The Bridge Project (continued)

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 27, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The specific procedures for this engagement and the extent to which these are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the charity and the sector in which it operates and considered the risk of acts by the charity that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. We designed audit procedures to respond to the risk, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of The Bridge Project (continued)

We focused on laws and regulations, relevant to the charity, which could give rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements. Our tests included agreeing the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation, enquiries with management, review of charity minutes and legal expenses. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described and, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it.

As part of our audit, we addressed the risk of management override of internal controls, including testing of journals and review of nominal ledger. We evaluated whether there was evidence of bias by the trustees that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud.

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of noncompliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/Our-Work/Audit/Audit-and-assurance/Standards-and-guidance/Standards-andguidance-for-auditors/Auditors-responsibilities-for-audit/Description-of-auditors-responsibilities-foraudit.aspx. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Lesley Kendrew (Senior Statutory Auditor)

for and on behalf of BHP LLP,

New Chartford House, Centurion Way, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, BD19 3QB

Date: 4[th] November 2022

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31[st] March 2022

(Incorporating the income and expenditure account)

Income
Notes
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Investments
5
Total income
Expenditure
Raising funds
6
Charitable activities 7 & 8
Total expenditure
Net income / (expenditure)
10
before transfers
Gross transfers between funds
Net movement in funds for the year
Total funds brought forward at 1stApril
Total funds carried forward at 31st March		 Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
73,900
10,000
220,128
304,028
104,686
2,059,957
143,313
525,266
2,728,536
2,403,481
4,823
-
19
4,842
4,970
2,138,680
153,313
745,413
3,037,406
2,513,137
20,396
46,135
-
66,531
30,731
1,869,913
167,096
599,292
2,636,301
2,266,630
1,890,309
213,231
599,292
2,702,832
2,297,361
248,371
(59,918)
146,121
334,574
215,776
(206,535)
210,231
(3,696)
-
-
41,836
150,313
142,425
334,574
215,776
776,531
1,112,094
83,751
1,972,376
1,756,600
818,367
1,262,407
226,176
2,306,950
1,972,376

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Balance Sheet as at 31[st] March 2022

Notes
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 12
Current assets
Stock in hand
13
Debtors and prepayments
14
Investments
15
Cash at bank and in hand
16
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling
due within one year
17
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due 18
after more than one year
Net assets		 2022
£
£
882,146
500
376,562
383,828
869,121
1,630,011
(205,207)
1,424,804
2,306,950
-
2,306,950		 2022
£
£
882,146
500
376,562
383,828
869,121
1,630,011
(205,207)
1,424,804
2,306,950
-
2,306,950		 2021
£
£
937,673
500
254,074
350,294
585,439
1,190,307
(105,487)
1,084,820
2,022,493
(50,117)
1,972,376		 2021
£
£
937,673
500
254,074
350,294
585,439
1,190,307
(105,487)
1,084,820
2,022,493
(50,117)
1,972,376
1,630,011
(205,207)		 1,190,307
(105,487)
2,306,950
-		 2,022,493
(50,117)
2,306,950 1,972,376
Funds
23, 24 & 25
Unrestricted funds
General funds
Designated funds
Restricted funds
Total funds carried forward at 31st March		 818,367
1,262,407
226,176
2,306,950		 776,531
1,112,094
83,751
1,972,376

For the year ending 31[st] March 2022 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies but as this company is a charity, it is subject to audit under the Charities Act 2011.

Directors’ responsibilities:

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 19[th] October 2022 and signed on their behalf by:

Peter Sleigh Chair of Trustees

Gordon Roscoe Vice Chair of Trustees

The notes on pages 35 to 48 form part of these financial statements.

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Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31[st] March 2022

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
26
Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest income
Purchase of investments
Net cash provided by / (used in) investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Repayment of borrowing
Net cash provided by / (used in) financing activities
Increase / (decrease) in cash and cash
equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at 1stApril
Cash and cash equivalents at 31st March
27		 Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
(2,683)
234,563
140,723
372,603
451,401
4,823
-
19
4,842
4,970
(19,996)
-
-
(19,996)
(88,160)
(15,173)
-
19
(15,154)
(83,190)
-
(60,231)
-
(60,231)
(119,502)
-
(60,231)
-
(60,231)
(119,502)
(17,856)
174,332
140,742
297,218
248,709
407,749
189,838
79,986
677,573
428,864
389,893
364,170
220,730
974,791
677,573

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

1. Accounting policies

The principle accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

a, Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) – (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

The Bridge Project meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.

b, Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis.

The Trustees have considered the impact of Covid on the charity’s funding, operations, workforce and supply chain, as well as the wider economy. There has been no detrimental financial impact on the charity to date, with funding and service delivery continuing without interruption throughout the pandemic. The Trustees do not currently foresee any change in these circumstances which would lead to a significant reduction in service delivery or loss of funding. Based upon current performance and forecasted budgets, the Trustees have concluded that the going concern basis remains appropriate.

c, Fund accounting Unrestricted funds are available for the use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the charitable objectives of Bridge.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been put aside at the discretion of the trustees for particular purposes (see note 25).

Restricted income funds are funds subject to specific restrictions imposed by the donors, funders, or by the purpose of the appeal. The purpose and use of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements. Expenditure which meets these criteria is charged to the fund, including where appropriate a fair allocation of management and support costs.

d, Income

Income is recognised when Bridge has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received, and the amount can be measured reliably.

e, Deferred income Any income received in this accounting period which relates to activities to be undertaken in future accounting periods is deferred.

f, Interest receivable

Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the Bank.

g, Donated services

Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item, any conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) the general time of volunteers is not recognised.

On receipt, donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

h, Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:

i, Allocation of expenditure Direct costs, including directly attributable salaries, are allocated on an actual basis to the appropriate service type and fund designation. Where costs cannot be directly attributed they have been allocated to a service type and fund on a basis consistent with the use of the resources.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, HR, and governance costs which support the charities activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities, on a basis consistent with the use of the resources.

j, Operating leases

Rentals applicable to operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.

k, Tangible fixed assets

Individual fixed assets costing £1,000 or more are capitalised over their estimated useful economic lives on a straight line basis as follows:-

follows:-
Category
 Annual Rate
Freehold Premises 2%
Replacement Roof 2%
Major structural improvements 10%
Other premises improvements 20%
Computers and other equipment 33.3%

One full year’s depreciation is charged in the year of purchase.

l, Stock

Stock is included at the lower of cost or net realisable value. Donated items of stock are recognised at fair value which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay for the items on the open market.

m, Investments

Current asset investments include any deposit funds which are not readily accessible within one week.

n, Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments which are accessible within one week.

o, Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

p, Pension contributions

Bridge operates a pension scheme in compliance with the workplace pension requirements. In line with the regulations employees are auto-enrolled into a workplace pension when the necessary requirements are met. Bridge pays 4% of an employee’s gross salary into a defined contributions workplace pension provided by Scottish Widows. From 1[st] April 2017 employees on Bridge’s standard terms and conditions were required to contribute at least 4% of their gross earnings into their pension. Contributions due to employees’ pensions are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate. Details of the contributions in this financial year can be seen in the notes to the financial statements.

q, Taxation

Bridge is exempt from payment of income and corporation tax on its charitable activities.

Bridge’s main business activities are exempt under VAT regulations. Any irrecoverable VAT incurred is included on the relevant cost line.

r, Capital commitments

Bridge had no capital commitments on the date the accounts were approved.

s, Legal form

The Bridge Project is a company limited by guarantee domiciled and incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 35 Salem Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 4QH. The members of the company are the Trustees named on page 23. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

2 Statement of Financial Activities for previous year (restated)

Income
Notes
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Investments
Total income
Expenditure
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income / (expenditure)
before transfers
Gross transfers between funds
Net movement in funds for the year
Total funds brought forward at 1stApril
Total funds carried forward at 31st March		 Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
53,756
-
50,930
104,686
1,965,815
151,753
285,913
2,403,481
4,970
-
-
4,970
2,024,541
151,753
336,843
2,513,137
23,168
7,563
-
30,731
1,760,288
211,306
295,036
2,266,630
1,783,456
218,869
295,036
**2,297,361 **
241,085
(67,116)
41,807
215,776
(119,503)
119,503
-
-
121,582
52,387
41,807
215,776
654,949
1,059,707
41,944
1,756,600
776,531
1,112,094
83,751
1,972,376
Donations
Donated services and goods
CGL
Shipley College
Grants
City of Bradford MDC
Community Action Bradford
Eaton Fund
Family Action
Glasspool Trust
Inn-Churches
Leeds Community Foundation
NatWest Circle Fund
The VCS Alliance
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
West Yorkshire Police Commissioner
Total		 Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
7,149
10,000
87,103
104,252
7,714
31,874
-
-
31,874
31,295
21,025
-
-
21,025
16,290
52,899
-
-
52,899
47,585
13,852
-
66,500
80,352
10,000
-
-
-
-
7,500
-
-
-
-
285
-
-
-
-
750
-
-
950
950
80
-
-
2,415
2,415
1,185
-
-
20,000
20,000
24,087
-
-
-
-
2,500
-
-
-
-
3,000
-
-
38,210
38,210
-
-
-
4,950
4,950
-
13,852
-
133,025
146,877
49,387
73,900
10,000
220,128
304,028
104,686

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

4 Income from charitable activities

Service Delivery Contracts
Big Lottery / Humankind
Big Lottery Reaching Communities
CGL
City of Bradford MDC
Alcohol Safe Space
Befriending Service
Exiting Prostitution
Housing First
Lotus Housing
MARAC Navigators
Multiple Needs Navigators
Rough Sleepers Funding
Safer Communities
Skills House
Substance Misuse Navigators
Top of Town – Community Safety
Young Peoples’ Substance Misuse
Affinity / Community Partnership 8
Community Partnership – South 10
ESF / Big Lottery – Stronger Families
Humankind
Job Centre Plus – DWP
Ministry of Justice – Foundation
Wakefield Council – Liaison &
Diversion
Ancillary Trading Income
Reclaimed expenditure
Rental income
External Training & Consultancy
Leeds Utd Foundation
Total		 Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
-
-
-
-
22,116
-
-
-
-
9,206
812,842
7,000
-
819,842
901,195
42,928
-
-
42,928
9,500
-
-
42,740
42,740
9,260

289,191
-
-
289,191
279,476

246,610
-
16,750
263,360
215,745
-
63,545
-
63,545
-
-
-
131,870
131,870
110,247
159,250
-
-
159,250
131,800
-
-
46,532
46,532
-
-
15,000
-
15,000
-
-
-
63,448
63,448
26,494
-
-
125,898
125,898
-
-
-
8,725
8,725
8,515
142,010
-
-
142,010
128,859
879,989
78,545
435,963
1,394,497
919,896
72,200
-
-
72,200
74,106
22,500
-
-
22,500
22,989

-
-
89,303
89,303
92,075
350
-
-
350
-
50,535
-
-
50,535
62,856
-
57,768
-
57,768
144,753
207,866
-
-
207,866
133,468
1,415
-
-
1,415
71
10,960
-
-
10,960
20,050
12,375
-
-
12,375
20,121
1,300
-
-
1,300
700
2,059,957
143,313
525,266
2,728,536
2,403,481

5. Investment income

come
Unrestricted Designated Restricted Total Total
Funds Funds Funds 2022 2021
£ £ £ £ £
Bank interest 4,823 - 19 4,842 4,970

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6 Expenditure on raising funds

Staff costs
Admin and office costs
Premises
Total 2022
Total 2021		 Unrestricted
Funds
Designated
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
18,876
46,135
-
65,011
28,732
1,035
-
-
1,035
1,562
485
-
-
485
437
20,396
46,135
-
66,531
30,731
23,168
7,563
-
30,731

7 Expenditure on charitable activities by fund designation

Service staff costs
Service provision costs
Admin and office costs
Premises
Depreciation
Governance costs
Support costs
Total 2022
Total 2020		 Unrestricted
Funds
Designated
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
1,551,053
77,362
437,246
2,065,661
1,698,854

73,199
17,954
53,643
144,796
100,874
44,210
2,057
20,244
66,511
65,264
63,811
2,935
24,410
91,156
88,870
-
55,527
-
55,527
113,927
48,297
6,790
25,654
80,741
67,730
89,342
4,472
38,095
131,909
131,111
1,869,912
167,097
599,292
2,636,301
2,266,630
1,760,288
211,306
295,036
2,266,630

8 Expenditure on charitable activities by service type

Service staff costs
Service provision costs
Admin and office costs
Premises
Depreciation
Governance costs
Support costs
Total 2022
Total 2020		 Communities,
Early
Intervention
& Prevention
Complex
Needs
Criminal
Justice
Drug
Treatment
& Recovery
Education,
Training &
Employment
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£
£
£
129,900
772,257
236,928
748,923
177,653
2,065,661
1,698,854

6,892
87,082
2,774
44,300
3,748
144,796
100,874
3,858
21,662
4,721
28,856
7,414
66,511
65,264
5,196
43,124
1,415
35,711
5,710
91,156
88,870
-
8,509
-
47,018
-
55,527
113,927
10,322
31,601
7,142
23,684
7,992
80,741
67,730
9,339
51,215
13,455
42,844
15,056
131,909
131,111
165,507
1,015,450
266,435
971,336
217,573
2,636,301
2,266,630
113,347
751,211
216,603
1,027,428
158,041
2,266,630

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

9 Staff costs, staff numbers, and trustee remuneration and expenses.

Employee costs during the year were:

Employee costs during the year were:
2022
2021
£
£
Gross wages and salaries
1,946,885
1,607,084
169,539
141,878
71,367
58,200
Social security costs
Pension contribution
2,187,791
1,807,162

The charity does not hold or administer any pension fund or defined benefit pension scheme for employees, it does operate a defined contribution pension scheme. The charity makes defined contributions of 4% of an employee’s gross salary into a workplace pension scheme held and administered by Scottish Widows. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the charity in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the charity to the scheme and amounted to £71,367 (2021: £58,200). Contributions totalling £6,051 (2021: £5,317) were payable to the scheme at the end of the period and are included in other creditors.

No redundancy or termination payments were paid during the year (2021: nil).

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the trustees, the Chief Executive Officer, Director of Operations, Director of Finance and the Director of HR. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel were £236,759 (2021: £237,343).

The number of higher paid employees who received employee benefits (gross salary plus social security costs) in the following bands were as follows:

£70,000 to £79,999: 1 (2021:1)

£60,000 to £69,999: 2 (2021:2)

The average monthly head count was 83 staff (2021: 70 staff).

In addition to the above employees; 1 worker was seconded to Bridge from CGL into the Jobcentre Plus project (2021: 1) at a cost of £27,874 (2021: £33,249).

£10,690 was spent on agency workers during the year to cover short-term vacancies, (2021: nil)

No remuneration or other benefits were paid to the Trustees during the year (2021: nil), no expenses were paid for reimbursing travel costs for attending meetings (2021: nil).

10 Net income / (expenditure)

These are stated after charging:

hese are stated after charging:
2022 2021
£ £
Depreciation – owned assets 55,527 113,927
Operating lease rentals 3,617 5,650
Auditor’s remuneration1 6,400 5,994
Interest on bank loans & overdrafts 372 3,692

1 Fees payable to the charitable company’s auditor for the audit of the charitable company’s annual accounts.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

11 Valuation of donated goods and services

Services and resources which are provided directly by our funders or partners but integral to our work are included at their value to Bridge and allocated to the appropriate service.

Bridge and allocated to the appropriate service.
Food for distribution to service users
Other goods distributed to service users
IT equipment, support & licences
Volunteer Training & Qualifications
Clinical Staff
Drug testing
Total		 2022
2021
£
£
-
-
-
-
10,080
10,080
21,025
16,290
20,324
19,745

1,470
1,470
52,899
47,585

The value of any volunteers’ time is not included, however we have benefited from 7,921 hours (2021: 6,329) of volunteer’s time through our volunteering programme.

12 Tangible fixed assets

Freehold
Property
Property
Improvements
£
£
984,344
1,164,888
-
-
-
-		 Computer
Equipment
£
16,448
-
-		 Vehicles
£
30,880
-
-		 Other
Equipment
Total
£
£
14,743
2,211,303
-
-
-
-
984,344
1,164,888		 16,448 30,880 14,743
2,211,303
249,969
964,012
19,687
34,418
-
-		 15,026
1,422
-		 30,880
-
-		 14,743
1,273,630
-
55,527
-
-
268,656
998,430		 16,448 30,880 14,743
1,329,157
715,688
166,458		 - - -
882,146

The freehold property consists of the following:

33, 35 & 37 Salem Street: Purchased in 1997 with the aid of a £175,000 grant from the Joint Finance Committee of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Bradford Health Authority. This grant is repayable if at any time the charity ceases operations, changes operations or moves premises. There is a legal charge over these properties to this effect.

31 Salem Street: Purchased in 1998. There are no legal charges or conditions on this property.

29 Salem Street: Purchased in 2001. There are no legal charges or conditions on this property.

4 Hallfield Street: Purchased in 2004. There are no legal charges or conditions on this property.

The Salem Street & Hallfield Street premises were given a combined open market valuation for disposal of £200,000 in September 2011 by Hayfield Robinson, Chartered Surveyors, of Bradford.

30 Manningham Lane: Purchased in August 2011. See note 21.

14 North Parade: Purchased in March 2014. There is no legal charge or conditions on this property. Pelican House, 10 Currer Street: Purchased on 30[th] March 2016. There is no legal charge or conditions on this property. The freehold property is shown above at original cost less any depreciation. As the value of the properties in use is considered to be greater than the net book value they remain valued at net book value.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

13 Stock

2022 2021
£ £
Donated goods 500 500

14 Debtors: amounts falling due within one year

Trade debtors
Other debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
15
Investments
Cambridge & Counties Bank (2 yr)
Hampshire Trust Bank (1 yr)
Monmouthshire B.S. (30 days)
Nationwide (35 days)
Redwood Bank (95 days)
Scottish Widows / CAF Bank (1yr)		 2022
2021
£
£
326,453
209,901
3,654
530
46,455
43,643
376,562
254,074
2022
2021
£
£
88,425
86,691
87,319
86,449
5,639
5,613
100,031
-
102,414
86,521
-
85,020
383,828
350,294

16 Cash at bank and in hand

Petty cash
CAF Bank current account
CAF Bank instant deposit account
Co-operative Bank current account
CCLA Deposit Fund
Charity Bank
Monmouthshire BS deposit account
Scottish Widows instant deposit account
Shawbrook Bank deposit account
Unity Trust Bank
Virgin Money postal deposit account
Total		 2022
2021
£
£
2,631
3,372
27,246
21,210
190,595
163,422
83,868
70,351
51,050
-
85,000
-
100,751
75,362
104,545
84,460
85,381
85,000
35,682
-
102,372
82,262
869,121
585,439

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

17 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Bank loan and overdrafts
Trade creditors
Taxation and social security
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income		 2022
2021
£
£
-
10,113
13,697
5,897
42,754
39,668
13,819
11,246

134,937
38,563
205,207
105,487

Other creditors are employer pension contributions and childcare voucher payments, all of which are paid within 30 days.

18 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

Due between 1 to 2 years
Due between 2 to 5 years
Due after 5 years		 2022
2021
£
£
-
9,554
-
30,165
-
10,398
-
50,117

19 Contingent liabilities

Contingent liabilities
2022 2021
£ £
Grant for property purchase 175,000 175,000

A grant was received from Bradford Health Authority in October 1997 for the purchase of No 33, 35 & 37 Salem Street, Bradford. £175,000 is repayable if at any time the charity ceases operations, changes operations or moves premises. There is a legal charge over the properties with no time limit attached.

At the year end the Trustees were not aware of any possible events that would trigger this liability.

20 Deferred income

Deferred income comprises performance related grants received in advance of the terms of the grant being met.

Balance at 1stApril
Amount released to income
Amount deferred in the year
Balance at 31stMarch		 2022
2021
£
£

24,300
20,922

(24,300)
(20,922)

111,153
24,300
111,153
24,300

21 Secured Debts

No secured debts were held on 31[st] March 2022 (2021: £60,230). The Co-operative Bank secured loan was repaid in full in June 2021, and the legal charge on 30 Manningham Lane was discharged in July 2021.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

22 Capital Commitments

There were no capital commitments at 31[st] March 2022 (2021: £nil).

23 Analysis of net assets between funds – current year


Unrestricted
General
funds
Designated
Funds
Restricted
funds
Total
2022
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets -
882,146
-
882,146
Current assets 893,692
383,721
352,598
1,630,011
Current liabilities (75,325)
(3,460)
(126,422)
(205,207)
Long term liabilities -
-
-
-
Fund balances 818,367
1,262,407
226,176
2,306,950

Analysis of net assets between funds- previous year


Unrestricted
General
funds
Designated
Funds
Restricted
funds
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets -
937,673
-
937,673
Current assets 863,611
237,450
89,246
1,190,307
Current liabilities (87,080)
(12,912)
(5,495)
(105,487)
Long term liabilities -
(50,117)
-
(50,117)
Fund balances 776,531
1,112,094
83,751
1,972,376

24 Purposes of funds

General Funds: These are the free reserves available to the charity for use without any restriction.

Designated Funds: These are unrestricted funds specifically designated for a purpose by the Trustees.

Business Development: Holds funds allocated for future expenditure on a business development worker’s staff costs.

Lotus Housing: Holds funds allocated and received for Bridge’s new accommodation scheme.

MoJ – Horizons Project: Holds received income for this service which is intended to being spent in 2022-23.

Premises Repair Fund: Holds funds allocated for future structural repairs and external decoration of our premises.

Manningham Lane Fixed Asset Fund: Holds the net book value of the freehold property and property improvements for 30 Manningham Lane.

North Parade Fixed Asset Fund: Holds the net book value of the freehold property, property improvements for the 14 North Parade premises and other tangible fixed assets at that site.

Pelican House Fixed Asset Fund: Holds the net book value of the freehold property, property improvements for the 10 Currer St premises and other tangible fixed assets at that site.

Salem Street Fixed Asset Fund: Holds the net book value of the freehold property, property improvements for 29-37 Salem St and other tangible fixed assets at that site.

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Restricted Funds: These are funds, or services, which have clearly defined conditions for their specific use stated in either a grant agreement, contract, or when the funds were donated.

ARG Grant: Holds a grant from CBMDC’s Additional Restrictions Grant scheme, to be spent on premises improvements in 2022-23

Befriending Service: Grant and contractual income and related expenditure for this project.

Bridge Client Fund: Holds grants and donations from a number of sources specifically given for client related expenditure.

Circle Fund: Funding from the Natwest Circle Fund to support victims of economic and domestic abuse.

Covid Health Inclusion: Holds funds allocated for future service provision costs on this project.

Helping Hand: A fund set up by trustees to make emergency discretionary purchases to service users in significant urgent need.

Housing First – Personalisation: This holds restricted funding, provided by City of Bradford MDC, for the purchase of furniture and other personal items for service users on the Housing First programme.

LCF Grant: Holds grant funding from Leeds Community Foundation for development of a new client drop-in facility.

Lotus Project - Service Users: Holds money raised by the Lotus Project specifically for their service users.

Lotus Project - Target Hardening: Holds restricted funding to specifically improve the personal safety of Lotus Project service users.

MARAC Navigators: Holds funds allocated for future service provision costs on this project.

Rough Sleepers Grant: Holds funds from the Rough Sleepers Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant for future service provision

Skillshouse: Holds funds allocated for future service provision costs on this project.

Spacious Places: Holds funds for this project in Leeds following it’s merger with Bridge in September 2021

Stronger Families - European Social Fund & Big Lottery: This joint funding for the Stronger Families project in Bradford is administered and monitored by Leeds City Council on behalf of ESF & Big Lottery.

SMU Navigators: Holds funds from the PHE’s universal grant funding scheme, funding a substance misuse navigator service.

Test and Trace CP8 Grants: Held funds to cover Bridge’s work on this project which was completed in 2021-22.

Top of Town – Community Safety Funding: Held funds allocated for a pilot project 2021-22

VCS Alliance Grants: Holds grant funding from the VCS Alliance for future distribution.

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25 Movement in funds – current year

25
Movement in funds – current		 year
Opening
balance
1stApril 21
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
Closing
balance
31st March 22
£
£
£
£
£
Unrestricted funds
General Funds 776,531
2,138,680
(1,890,309)
(206,535)
818,367
Designated funds
Business Development 82,437
15,000
(46,135)
-
51,302
Lotus Housing -
73,545
(38,223)
-
35,322
MoJ – Horizons Project 127,715
57,768
(73,346)
-
112,137
Premises Repair Fund 24,500
7,000
-
150,000
181,500
Manningham Lane, Fixed Asset Fund 212,570
-
(6,820)
60,231
265,981
North Parade, Fixed Asset Fund 171,379
-
(14,958)
-
156,421
Pelican House, Fixed Asset Fund 290,196
-
(25,240)
-
264,956
Salem Street, Fixed Asset Fund 203,297
-
(8,509)
-
194,788
1,112,094
153,313
(213,231)
210,231
1,262,407
Restricted funds 11,500
-
-
11,500
-
97,740
(82,875)
-
14,865
515
3,365
(3,578)
-
302
2,500
-
(2,462)
-
38
5,998
-
(6)
-
5,992
400
-
-
-
400
2,222
16,825
(15,351)
(3,696)
-
20,000
-
-
20,000

1,939
205
(149)
-
1,995
3,808
-
(463)
-
3,345

22,943
170,080
(163,173)
-
29,850
-
46,532
-
46,532
26,494
63,448
(68,840)
-
21,102
-
86,842
(40,192)
-
46,650
1,667
89,303
(87,309)
-
3,661

-
125,898
(108,954)
-
16,944
3,750
-
(3,750)
-
-
8,515
13,675
(22,190)
-
-
3,000
-
-
-
3,000
ARG Grant
Befriending Service
Bridge Client Fund
Circle Fund
Covid Health Inclusion
Helping Hand
Housing First – Personalisation
LCF Grant
Lotus Project – Service Users
Lotus Project – Target Hardening
MARAC Navigators
Rough Sleepers Grant
Skillshouse
Spacious Places
Stronger Families - European Social Fund
& Big Lottery
SMU Navigators
Test and Trace CP8 Grants
Top of Town – Community Safety Funding
VCS Alliance Grants
83,751
745,413
(599,292)
(3,696)
226,176
Total funds 1,972,376
3,037,406
(2,702,832)
-
2,306,950

Transfers between funds:

£3,696 from the Housing First Personalisation fund to General funds was the transfer of a closing balance, approved by funders, to the new Housing First contract held within General Funds.

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2022

Movement in funds – previous year (restated)

Opening
balance
1stApril 20
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
Closing
balance
31st March 21
£
£
£
£
£
Unrestricted Funds
General funds 654,949
2,024,541
(1,783,456)
(119,503)
776,531
Designated Funds
Business Development 90,000
-
(7,563)
-
82,437
MoJ – Horizons Project 80,341
144,753
(97,379)
-
127,715
Premises Repair Fund 17,500
7,000
-
-
24,500
Manningham Lane, Fixed Asset Fund 193,040
-
(51,220)
70,750
212,570
North Parade, Fixed Asset Fund 186,337
-
(14,958)
-
171,379
Pelican House, Fixed Asset Fund 280,683
-
(39,240)
48,753
290,196
Salem Street, Fixed Asset Fund 211,806
-
(8,509)
-
203,297
1,059,707
151,753
(218,869)
119,503
1,112,094
Restricted Funds -
33,347
(33,347)
-
-
-
2,520
(2,005)
-
515
-
2,500
-
-
2,500
-
10,000
(4,002)
-
5,998
432
-
(32)
-
400
5,223
8,000
(11,001)
-
2,222

900
1,323
(284)
-
1,939
4,395
-
(587)
-
3,808

-
110,247
(99,816)
12,512
22,943
Befriending Service
Bridge Client Fund
Circle Fund
Covid Health Inclusion
Helping Hand
Housing First – Personalisation
Lotus Project – Service Users
Lotus Project – Target Hardening
MARAC Navigators
Skillshouse -
26,494
-
-
26,494
SMU Navigators
12,512
-
-
(12,512)
-
1,101
92,075
(91,509)
-
1,667
16,837
9,206
(26,043)
-
-
-
7,500
(3,750)
-
3,750
-
8,515
-
-
8,515
-
3,000
-
-
3,000
544
22,116
(22,660)
-
-
Stronger Families - European Social Fund
& Big Lottery

The Space - Big Lottery – Reaching
Communities
Test and Trace CP8 Grants
Top of Town – Community Safety Funding
VCS Alliance Grants
WY-FI - Big Lottery
41,944
336,843
(295,036)
-
83,751
Total funds 1,756,600
2,513,137
(2,297,361)
-
1,972,376

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26 Reconciliation of net income / (expenditure) to net cash flow from operating activities

Net movement in funds for the year
(as per SOFA)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charge
Deduct Interest income shown in investing
activities
Decrease (increase) in stock
Decrease (increase) in debtors
Increase (decrease) in creditors
Net cash provided by (used in) operating
activities
27
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash in hand
Notice deposits (less than 3 months)
Total cash and cash equivalents		 Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£

41,836
150,313
142,425
334,574
215,776



-
55,527
-
55,527
113,927

(4,823)
-
(19)
(4,842)
(4,970)

-
-
-
-
-

(27,940)
28,061
(122,610)
(122,489)
127,290

(11,756)
662
120,927
109,883
(622)
(2,683)
234,563
140,723
372,603
451,401
Unrestricted
funds
Designated
funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
£

284,223
364,170
220,728
869,121
585,439
105,670
-
-
105,670
92,134
389,893
364,170
220,728
974,791
677,573

28 Disclosure of Trustee / Related Party Transactions

Jon Royle, Chief Executive, is a Trustee and the Chair of Faces and Voices of Recovery UK (FAVOR UK), Charity No.SC043961, which organises the national Recovery Walks that Bridge service users attend. There were no financial transactions between Bridge and FAVOR UK in either year.

Melva Burton, a trustee until 25[th] November 2021, is also a trustee of the Create Strength Group (CSG), Charity No 1193551, which provides mutual support groups and training services in relation to abstinence from Cannabis, Spice, and Novel Psychoactive Substances. David Memery, a trustee of Bridge, is employed by CSG as their senior manager. Bridge received £2,353 from CSG in 2022 for office accommodation and support services (2021: £nil), Bridge paid £530 to CSG for staff training in 2022 (2021 £nil).

Ralph Berry, a trustee until 20[th] January 2022, is a councillor for City of Bradford MDC which is a significant source of funding and service contracts for Bridge. Bridge received £1,474,849 from City of Bradford MDC in 2022 (2021: £929,896).

No payments were made to Trustees in 2021-22 for any services in a professional capacity, outside of their role as a trustee. (2021: £nil)

29 Ultimate Controlling Party

The charity is under the control of the board of trustees.

30 Post Balance Sheet Event

There are no post balance sheet events to report.

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