OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bridges Project

Known as Bridges

ActiveCharity number SC036976
Registered18 November 2005
Main locationEast Lothian
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC036976
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
16
Postcode
EH21 6RT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our purpose is to enable young people from the Lothians to access and sustain the key services they require to make a safe transition to adult responsibilities including independent living, employment, further education, training and personal well-being. We believe that young people should determine the shape of their futures and participate fully in the social, economic, political and cultural life of their communities. We offer quality services, which value young people's strengths and work with their inter-related needs and barriers to progress. We listen to the views of young people in designing and monitoring our services. Programmes and services will be adapted to young people's changing circumstances, aspirations and progress. We commit Bridges to working in local partnerships, which aim to coordinate and maximise resources using approaches which are informed by an understanding of the processes, needs and wishes of this marginalised group.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(1) To provide and/or promote training for young people, particularly in such skills as will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (2) To relieve unemployment for the public benefit among young people in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. (3) To promote and protect the welfare and physical health of young people, and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for young people. (4) To relieve poverty among young people. (5) To relieve the needs of young people who suffer from mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment. (6) To work towards the elimination of discrimination (whether on the grounds of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or otherwise) in relation to young people, and to promote and support equality of opportunity for all young people irrespective of race, religion, disability, gender or sexual orientation. (7) To help young people to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (8) To promote public safety, in particular with regard to young people. (9) To assist in the provision of housing for young people who are in necessitous circumstances. (10) To advance education among young people. (11) To promote and/or support other charitable projects and programmes for the benefit of young people.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£692,559£621,0451620 November 2025
31 March 2024£601,771£624,1451618 November 2024
31 March 2023£639,404£597,2941625 October 2023
31 March 2022£690,878£549,0451613 October 2022
31 March 2021£572,707£499,2621615 November 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Unit 1, Bogpark Road, Musselburgh, East Lothian
Website supplied to OSCR
www.bridgesproject.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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