TEES RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1128953 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is involved in activities to improve the rivers, streams, watercourses and water impoundments of the catchments of the river Tees and its tributaries. In particular, work has been undertaken to deliver advice and capital works on diffuse rural pollution and invasive species control at a number of locations. The charity has also delivered River lab projects into local schools.

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Latest income

£2.0m

Latest spending

£1.3m

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group received income of £2,001,842 and held total reserves of £7,257,300 at year end. The trustees report that the charity is in a strong financial position with adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: more than £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 in both the current year and the prior year.” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 in both the current year and the prior year.” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: adequate funds to cover funding claims made in arrears, redundancies and a year’s operating cost (held: £791k)

“The Trust' policy is to ensure that there are adequate funds to cover funding claims made in arrears, redundancies and a year’s operating cost.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: In the prior year, M Hannaford, a trustee of the Charity, provided contract spraying services totalling £9,713. No such transactions occurred during the current year.

“In the prior year, M Hannaford, a trustee of the Charity, provided contract spraying services totalling £9,713. No such transactions occurred during the current year.” — page 28

“In the year, income of £800 (2024: 600) was received from a company in which one of the Charity’s trustees is a director, in respect of environmental consultancy services.” — page 28

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: In the year, income of £800 (2024: 600) was received from a company in which one of the Charity’s trustees is a director, in respect of environmental consultancy services.

“In the prior year, M Hannaford, a trustee of the Charity, provided contract spraying services totalling £9,713. No such transactions occurred during the current year.” — page 28

“In the year, income of £800 (2024: 600) was received from a company in which one of the Charity’s trustees is a director, in respect of environmental consultancy services.” — page 28

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Nature Based Solutions Limited

“The financial statements consolidate the results of the charity and its wholly owned subsidiary, Nature Based Solutions Limited, on a line-by-line basis.” — page 19

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Dave Simpson — Chairman (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income

£2.0m

Total spending

£1.3m

Reserves (reported)

£791k

Employees

15

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

David Jeremy Simpsonchair
Chris Noble
Diana Marisa De Siva Feliciano
Mark Hannaford
Olly Shepherd
PROF Edward Maltby · trustee of 1 other charity
RICHARD MURROUGH WILSON · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · North Yorkshire · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£2.0m	£1.3m
31/03/2024	£7.0m	£1.1m
31/03/2023	£1.4m	£1.4m
31/03/2022	£741k	£620k
31/03/2021	£611k	£432k

Common questions

Is TEES RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group received income of £2,001,842 and held total reserves of £7,257,300 at year end. The trustees report that the charity is in a strong financial position with adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of TEES RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the more than £60,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	05/12/2024	£2.6m	"Tees Invasive Species Project (TISP)"
UK government	01/04/2024	£15k	CHF_WEIFNSG-2425
UK government	11/11/2020	£18k	GRCF2020 Long-term Biological control of Invasive Non Native Species
UK government	11/11/2020	£90k	GRCF2020 Long-term Biological control of Invasive Non Native Species
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/08/2020	£10k	"COVID 19 - Tees Rivers Trust"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	07/03/2017	£422k	"Tees Operation Hogweed (TOPHOG)"
UK government	—	£40k	Lustrum Beck Habitat Improvements
UK government	—	£15k	Tees
UK government	—	£35k	Tees Estuary Habitat Vision Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£52k
THE DERBYSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST LIMITED	1	£51k
Community Foundation North East	1	£33k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY	1	£14k
THE LINDER FOUNDATION	1	£3k
THE WILLIAM LEECH CHARITY	1	£2k
THE BARBOUR FOUNDATION	1	£2k

Charities like this

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

THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST income £1.9m
THAMES RIVERS TRUST income £136k
TYNE RIVERS TRUST income £1.4m
SEVERN RIVERS TRUST income £2.9m
EAST MERCIA RIVERS TRUST income £966k
EAST YORKSHIRE RIVERS TRUST income £147k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
TEES RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST	£2.0m	more than £60,000	1	above	—	no doubt
THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST FY2025	£1.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THAMES RIVERS TRUST FY2025	£136k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TYNE RIVERS TRUST FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
SEVERN RIVERS TRUST FY2025	£2.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EAST MERCIA RIVERS TRUST FY2025	£966k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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