The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Bridge Educational Trust (1996)

Registered charity 1068720 Registered since 1998

Operates: Dorset

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11.4y median 11.5y
average tenure
28y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 2Other services 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£89k latest income

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.bridgeeducationaltrust.org.uk
Emailbridgeeducationaltrust@outlook.com
Phone07501225054
AddressC/O PIDDLE VALLEY FIRST SCHOOL, PIDDLETRENTHIDE, DORCHESTER, DORSET, DT2 7QL

Finances

£89,428 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£82,292£87,034
2022£85,889£132,201
2023£87,781£87,576
2024£88,448£90,203
2025£89,428£89,280

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To Individuals

Charitable objects

HELPING (EITHER BY SINGLE GRANTS OR BY PROVISION OF BURSARIES) WITH THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS OF ANY SEX RACE COLOUR OR CREED DRAWN PRIMARILY FROM THE PARISHES OF PIDDLETRENTHIDE (WITH PLUSH) PIDDLEHINTON AND ALTON ST. PANCRAS (AS THEIR PARISH BOUNDARIES STOOD AT THE DATE HEREOF) AND SECONDARILY FROM THOSE BORN OR HAVING THEIR MAIN RESIDENCE IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET AND IN THIS DEED THE WORD "EDUCATION" SHALL BE DEEMED TO INCLUDE PARTICIPATION IN EXPEDITIONS OR TRAVEL GROUPS ORGANISED FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURAL OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 21 FEBRUARY 1998.

Trustees (8)

8trustees
67median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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