TYNE RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1107358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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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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 NENE RIVERS TRUST CIO.

• NENE RIVERS TRUST CIO income £748k
• WEAR RIVERS TRUST income £832k
• EAST YORKSHIRE RIVERS TRUST income £147k
• DON CATCHMENT RIVERS TRUST income £623k
• MERSEY RIVERS TRUST income £1.2m
• TEES RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.