THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1089239 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRENT SALMON TRUST

To preserve, protect and improve the rivers and streams of the Trent catchment and the biodiversity they support, by maintaining and improving water quality by reducing the impacts of rural and urban land use upon watercourses. Maintaining, improving and restoring the natural habitat and function of streams and rivers and their floodplains.

Objects

The objects of the Company shall be to protect, conserve and enhance, for public benefit, the natural aquatic environment and biodiversity of the catchment of the River Trent and promote understanding of sustainable approaches to water management in urban and rural area.

Area of benefit: THE RIVER TRENT AND ITS TRIBUTARIES

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a modest surplus of £67,769 with total funds increasing to £1,024,980. The trustees report healthy levels of reserves and a strong project pipeline, confirming the charity is financially resilient and prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 11/06/2024, 11 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04225307 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Trent Rivers Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MARSHALL, Hollie, Dr — director, appointed 21/03/2025on trustee list
• WALSH, Tom — director, appointed 21/03/2025on trustee list
• GIBBS, Elisabeth Helen — director, appointed 21/03/2025on trustee list
• STARK, Martin Leonard — director, appointed 28/02/2023on trustee list
• KAY, Richard James — director, appointed 03/12/2021on trustee list
• HOLT, Valerie Lois — director, appointed 29/10/2015on trustee list
• FARR, Timothy Hordern — director, appointed 17/01/2012on trustee list
• BUTTERFIELD, Ian — director, appointed 17/01/2012on trustee list
• OWEN, Mark — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• NICKOLDS, Geoffrey David — director, appointed 27/11/2003not on trustee list
• HOLT, Valerie Lois — secretary, appointed 19/02/2019

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK OWENchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Hollie Marshall
• Elisabeth Helen Gibbs
• IAN BUTTERFIELD
• MR GEOFF NICKOLDS
• Martin Leonard Stark
• Richard James Kay
• Timothy Hordern Farr · trustee of 4 other charities
• Tom Walsh
• Valerie L Holt

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Derbyshire · Doncaster · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire · Rotherham · Solihull · Staffordshire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• ACTION FOR THE RIVER KENNET income £559k
• RIVER THAME CONSERVATION TRUST income £600k
• ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RIVERS TRUST income £963k
• THAMES RIVERS TRUST income £135k
• SEVERN RIVERS TRUST income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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