Charity Accounts Intelreading the accounts so you don’t have to

WESSEX RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1130991 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WCSRT, WESSEX CHALK STREAM AND RIVERS TRUST, WESSEX CHALKSTREAM AND RIVERS TRUST

Latest income
£1.8m
Latest spending
£1.2m
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2023

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 30 June 2023 was £1,532,018, resulting in a net surplus of £82,635. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £305,044 are adequate to meet their policy target of covering three months of salary costs and overheads. The independent auditors reported that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £305k)
“The trustees' reserves policy is to maintain reserves at a level that would permit the Trust to cover its salary costs and overheads for a period of at least three months in the case of unforeseen events.” — page 5
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Wessex Rivers Services Limited
“The company's investments at the balance sheet date in the share capital of companies Indude the following: Wessex Rivers Services Limited”
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Langdowns DFK Limited.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income
£1.8m
Total spending
£1.2m
Reserves (reported)
£498k
Employees
20

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£1.8m£1.2m
30/06/2024£1.3m£1.1m
30/06/2023£1.5m£1.4m
30/06/2022£1.2m£1.2m
30/06/2021£752k£630k

Common questions

Is WESSEX RIVERS TRUST financially healthy?

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 30 June 2023 was £1,532,018, resulting in a net surplus of £82,635. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £305,044 are adequate to meet their policy target of covering three months of salary costs and overheads. The independent auditors reported that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2023 accounts were audited by Langdowns DFK Limited.

Who funds WESSEX RIVERS TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WESSEX RIVERS TRUST as a grant recipient include JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION, THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmount
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATIONFY2023£120k
THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£20k

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE LINDER FOUNDATION1£3k

Charities like this

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