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
Reserves policy: three months of running costs (held: £471k)
“Increase unrestricted reserves to a minimum value equivalent to three months of running costs.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Severn Rivers Ecology Limited
“The Severn Rivers Trust is the sole shareholder of the not-for-profit subsidiary, Severn Rivers Ecology Limited (SRE), company number 10081868.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
SEVERN RIVERS ECOLOGY LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
- Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £185k
- Amounts owed to group undertakings 184,815
“Amounts owed to group undertakings 184,815”
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)
Cost of raising funds
£620k
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).
- 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
Common questions
Is SEVERN RIVERS TRUST financially healthy?
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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited.
Who funds SEVERN RIVERS TRUST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SEVERN RIVERS TRUST as a grant recipient include THE HDH WILLS 1965 CHARITABLE TRUST, THE LINDER FOUNDATION.
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