SEVERN RIVERS TRUST

Registered charity 1134096 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SRT

Environmental improvements, research, education and public awareness and activities with regard to the river Severn catchment.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income reached £2.8 million, with unrestricted reserves totaling £470,745. The charity reports a surplus for the year and maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence. The organization is actively diversifying its income sources through commercial activities to reduce dependence on grant funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06642409
• Trading subsidiary: SEVERN RIVERS ECOLOGY LIMITED Companies House 10081868

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joe Pimblett — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Tony Harvey — Chair of Trustees (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BOTHAM, Anne Eliza — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• BRADLEY, David Charles — director, appointed 20/03/2025on trustee list
• MC FADZEEN, Louise Kerr — director, appointed 02/03/2023not on trustee list
• PETERS, Grant Charles — director, appointed 02/03/2023on trustee list
• GORDON, Ian Thomas — director, appointed 01/05/2022on trustee list
• HARVEY, Antony Stuart — director, appointed 01/03/2022on trustee list
• CAMERON WATT, Penny — director, appointed 17/07/2018not on trustee list
• WHARF, Jennifer Frances — secretary, appointed 19/10/2023

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 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 (71% 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: 21.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Eliza Botham
• Antony Stuart Harvey
• Dr David Bradley
• Grant Charles Peters
• IAN GORDON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Kerr Mcfadzean
• Penelope Ann Cameron Watt

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST.

• THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST income £1.9m
• THE SOUTH EAST RIVERS TRUST income £2.5m
• THAMES RIVERS TRUST income £136k
• WESSEX RIVERS TRUST income £1.8m
• EAST MERCIA RIVERS TRUST income £966k
• Dee Trust income £800k

Side by side with its peers

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