FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FROME

Registered charity 1062090 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To ensure that the corridor of the Somerset River Frome is respected, protected and enhanced.

Objects

TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, DEVELOP AND IMPROVE THE RIVER FROME AND TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ABOVE.

Area of benefit: THE RIVER FROME

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

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity ended the financial year with unrestricted reserves of £15,211.92, an increase from the opening balance of £5,847.55. The accounts show a net credit for the year of £9,364.37, driven primarily by significant income from crowdfunding and a legacy donation related to the Adderwell Water Meadow project. Expenditure was largely concentrated on the purchase of the meadow land and associated project costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Bullchair
• Richard Ackroyd · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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• THE FRIENDS OF ROWAN ASSOCIATION income £41k
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• THE FRIENDS OF ASHDOWN FOREST income £120k
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Side by side with its peers

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