EAST YORKSHIRE RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1115043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST YORKSHIRE CHALK RIVERS TRUST

To conserve, protect, rehabilitate and improve the chalk rivers and streams of East & North Yorkshire. To advance the education of the public in the understanding of rivers, river corridors and catchments including their fauna and flora.

Objects

(3) THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-(A) TO CONSERVE, PROTECT, REHABILITATE, AND IMPROVE THE RIVERS, RIVER CORRIDORS ANDWATER IMPOUNDMENTS OF THE CATCHMENTS COMPRISING THE CHALK RIVERS AND STREAMS OF EAST YORKSHIRE AND NORTH YORKSHIRE.(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OR ANY ASSOCIATION, COMPANY, LOCAL AUTHORITY, ADMINISTRATIVE OR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR PUBLIC BODY OR REPRESENTATIVE BODY IN:- (1) THE UNDERSTANDING OF RIVERS, RIVER CORRIDORS AND CATCHMENTS, INCLUDING THEIR FAUNA, FLORA AND ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY, AND RIVER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT. (2) THE NEED FOR, AND BENEFITS OF , CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS.

Area of benefit: EAST YORKSHIRE AND NORTH YOURKSHIRE.

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: Kingston upon Hull, City of, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £28,808 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £85,516. The trustees hold these reserves to enable the continuation of charitable activities, with no stated policy target defined in the filing. The financial statements were independently examined rather than audited, with no matters coming to the examiner's attention that would cause concern.

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 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/02/2025, 17 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Morten Evans
• David Russell Southall
• Jake Finnigan
• Oliver Southgate
• PROFESSOR IAN GRAHAM COWX · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Edward Hampshire
• Richard Pratt

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RIVERS TRUST income £963k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• YORKSHIRE DALES RIVERS TRUST income £709k
• NORFOLK RIVERS TRUST income £2.8m
• RIVER THAME CONSERVATION TRUST income £600k
• THE SOUTH EAST RIVERS TRUST income £2.5m

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