Hart was the daughter of Jennifer Gibson, and Norman Cressy Bridge who was a consultant electrical engineer.
She was an activist whose quest for equal rights saw her work extensively with the World Council of Churches[4] (WCC).
From early days in the playgroup movement, through work with the Church of Scotland – she was President of the Woman’s Guild in the 1970s – to ecumenical involvement with the WCC, she followed her belief that women, too, are made in the image of God.
[1] After attending the WCC Vienna conference on human rights in 1982, she became a founder member of the Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women.
SCOW circulated a questionnaire to the political parties to discover what they were thinking of in terms of women's representation.