WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1105663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PEMBROKESHIRE RIVERS TRUST

Through community partnership inititives secure the conservation, protection, rehabilitation and improvement of the rivers, lakes & wetlands of Pembrokeshire.

Objects

THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES AND OTHERWISE, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY:- (I) TO SECURE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RIVERS, STREAMS, WATERCOURSES AND WATER IMPOUNDMENTS IN THE COUNTIES OF CARMARTHENSHIRE, CEREDIGION AND PEMBROKESHIRE AND ADJACENT AREAS AND OF THEIR BANKS, RIPARIAN LANDS AND CATCHMENT AREAS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS. (II) TO SECURE THE CONSERVATION, REHABILITATION AND PROTECTION OF INDIGENOUS SPECIES OF ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE OF THE RIVERS, STREAMS, WATERCOURSES AND WATER IMPOUNDMENTS IN THE COUNTIES OF CARMARTHENSHIRE, CEREDIGION AND PEMBROKESHIRE AND OF THEIR BANKS, RIPARIAN LAND AND CATCHMENT AREAS, AND THEREBY TO ENHANCE THE COUNTIES BIO-DIVERSITY. (III) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF AQUATIC HABITATS, THEIR RELATED CATCHMENT AREAS, AND THEIR ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE, AND THE NEED FOR THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SUCH ENVIRONMENTS.

Area of benefit: CARMARTHENSHIRE, CEREDIGION AND PEMBROKESHIRE AND ADJACENT AREAS

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: Pembrokeshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £80,303 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £581,484 to £501,181. The trustees' report indicates that the organization aims to hold reserves equivalent to approximately one year of running costs to manage volatile grant funding, but the current unrestricted reserves of £261,557 are not explicitly compared to this target in the financial statements. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 21/02/2024, 21 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 12/03/2023, 40 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 12/03/2022, 40 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund — “We’re delighted that we have been awarded £46,673 by the Pen y Cymoedd Wind Farm Community Fund for our Valleys River Restorers project.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Stretton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clive Roberts
• Dr Mark Graham Macklin
• Edward Thomas Huw Evans
• KAY DEARING

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• WESTCOUNTRY RIVERS TRUST income £4.6m
• WEST CUMBRIA RIVERS TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• COTSWOLDS RIVERS TRUST income £47k
• SEA TRUST WALES income £177k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• TEWKESBURY NATURE RESERVE LTD income £172k

Side by side with its peers

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