THE WELSH WATER ELAN TRUST

Registered charity 1001347 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ELAN VALLEY TRUST

Administration of 47000 acre estate including provision of 28 tenanted agricultural holdings,in hand farming operation as part of conservation and public access remit.Also provides holiday cottages,education and information, 38 tenanted houses and conserves environment and safeguards water catchment which provides water supply to large parts of English Midlands

Objects

1.THE PRESERVATION MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF THE AREA OF GREAT NATURAL BEAUTY COMPRISING THE ELAN VALLEY AND ITS NATURAL ASPECT AND FEATURES (AND ITS ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE). 2. THE FACILITATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF ACCESS TO AND THE STUDY OF THE ELAN VALLEY (AND ITS ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE) BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC. 3.THE PROVISION AT THE ELAN VALLEY OR SUCH PART OF IT AS SHALL BE APPROPRIATE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE SAME ARE INTENDED OF FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL RECREATION WHICH SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.4.THE FACILITATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE USE OF THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE ELAN VALLEY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: ELAN VALLEY IN THE COUNTIES OF DYFED AND POWYS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £15,200,890 at year-end, with the trustees noting a strategic use of reserves to fund activities due to income uncertainty following the transition to new farming schemes. The charity reported a net expenditure of £163,081 for the year, which was covered by drawing down on these unrestricted funds.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RCH Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Ieuan Joyce — Chairman (source)
• Cllr David Owen Evans — Treasurer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~108.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elan Valley Limited

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Ceredigion · Powys

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST.

• WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST income £884k
• Dee Trust income £800k
• GERALD PALMER ELING TRUST COMPANY income £2.3m
• THE ELWYN THOMAS MEMORIAL FUND income £156k
• YORKSHIRE WATER COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.3m
• THE WOODLANDS FARM TRUST income £234k

Side by side with its peers

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