TYNE RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1107358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q24993701 · Wikipedia

Tyne Rivers Trust has a unique role as guardian of the River Tyne Catchment, overseeing the continuing conservation and regeneration of the river from the impacts of its industrial past.The Trust provides education programmes and promotes understanding of the river to all ages, alongside the science-based, practical projects we develop and implement to improve the river system.

Objects

2.1 The Objects for which the Company is established (Objects) are:- 2.1.1 to conserve, protect, rehabilitate and improve the rivers, streams, watercourses, lakes and water impoundments of the River Tyne catchment and of the catchments comprising all of the rivers, streams and watercourses that flow into the North Sea south of the Tweed and north of the Tyne, including their estuaries and adjacent coastal areas for the advancement of environmental protection or improvement for the benefit of the public; 2.1.2 to advance the education of the public, or any association, institution, voluntary organisation, company, local authority, administrative or governmental agency or public body or representative body in: 2.1.2.1 the understanding of rivers, river corridors and catchments, including their fauna, flora, biodiversity and economic or social activity, and river catchment management; 2.1.2.2 the need for, and benefits of, conservation, protection, rehabilitation and improvement of aquatic environments.

Area of benefit: THE RIVER TYNE CATCHMENT INCLUDING ITS ESTUARY AND ADJACENT COASTAL AREA.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £160,607 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees describe as healthy and sufficient to protect cash flow and provide at least three months of liquidity. The charity reported a net expenditure of £50,343 for the year, primarily driven by charitable activities, while maintaining a positive cash balance to ensure project delivery.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Counting North 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sophia Stovall — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Kim Storey — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Jack Bloomer — Chief Scientist and Technical Director (source)
• Professor Richard Kirk — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• P F Charitable Trust — “P F Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust — “Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Henry Bell Trust — “The Henry Bell Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Charles Richard Kirkchair
• Anne Marie Gardener
• Christopher Liddle
• David Bradshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Andrew Wright
• John Hollingsworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Brown
• Samantha Dawn Legget
• Thomas David Richardson

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 RIVER THAME CONSERVATION TRUST.

• RIVER THAME CONSERVATION TRUST income £600k
• NENE RIVERS TRUST CIO income £532k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST income £1.9m
• THAMES RIVERS TRUST income £135k
• TEES RIVER RESCUE income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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