SOUTH CUMBRIA RIVERS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1114682 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCRT

The charity aims to monitor, maintain and improve the aquatic environment of the lakes, rivers and streams of South Cumbria. It also aims to educate the wider general public in the importance of the aquatic environment of South Cumbria and the problems presently faced.

Objects

1 TO CONSERVE AND PROTECT AND WHEN NECESSARY REHABILITATE AND IMPROVE BIODIVERSITY OF THE LAKES, RIVERS AND STREAMS OF SOUTH CUMBRIA INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITS.2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, COMPANIES AN PUBLIC BODIES IN:A THE UNDERSTANDING OF LAKES AND RIVERS INCLUDING THEIR FAUNA, FLORA, SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND AMENITY VALUE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER.B THE NEED FOR, AND BENEFITS OF, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: SOUTH CUMBRIA

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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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £76,191 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £663,153 and expenditure of £586,962. Per the trustees' report, total funds increased to £638,371, although actual cash reserves declined as funds were tied up in work in progress. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months.

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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 06/12/2023, 36 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 22/11/2022, 22 days after the 31/10/2022 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).

• UK Government — “SCRT have been successful in securing two Water Restoration Fund projects, funded by the UK Government.” (source page)
• The National Lottery — “Supported by The National Lottery” (source page)
• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Heritage Lottery Fund” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Gardner
• DAVID JOHN CLEAVER
• DIANA DEVENISH
• DICKON PETER RICHARD KNIGHT
• David George Muir Kelly
• HAL BAGOT
• JULIUS ARMSTRONG BARRATT
• LORD CAVENDISH OF FURNESS RICHARD HUGH CAVENDISH DL
• Nigel Wilkinson
• Richard Hines
• Stephen Anthony Benn
• Tracey Dawn Griffiths

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• WEST CUMBRIA RIVERS TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RIVERS TRUST income £963k
• OUSE & ADUR RIVERS TRUST income £434k
• THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST income £1.9m
• SOUTH LAKELAND HYDROTHERAPY LIMITED income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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