FRIENDS OF THE RIVER CRANE ENVIRONMENT

Registered charity 1155971 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FORCE

TO OPERATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AND WITH OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE RIVER CRANE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE RIVER CRANE

Objects

1.TO OPERATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AND WITH OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES, TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE RIVER CRANE, THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S RIVER, THEIR CORRIDORS AND SURROUNDING OPEN SPACES WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES AND ITS ENVIRONS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ECO-SYSTEM, RESIDENTS AND VISITORS.2.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE RIVER CRANE, THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S RIVER, THEIR CORRIDORS AND SURROUNDING OPEN SPACES WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES AND ITS ENVIRONS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £78,207, resulting in a net surplus of £8,690. The charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £20,089, which the trustees confirm meets their policy target of nine months' estimated unrestricted expenditure plus working capital. The organization operates with no paid staff and relies entirely on volunteer time and grant funding.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08383410

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of the River Crane Environment (FORCE) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• YOUNG, Sharon Denise — director, appointed 16/09/2021on trustee list
• WYATT, Catherine Mary — director, appointed 02/12/2020on trustee list
• CHARLES, Alan John — director, appointed 20/09/2017on trustee list
• HORWOOD, Alison Claire — director, appointed 20/09/2017on trustee list
• PECORELLI, Joe — director, appointed 01/01/2015on trustee list
• SATCHWELL, Jane Marguerite — director, appointed 01/01/2015on trustee list
• GRAY, Robert Charles — director, appointed 31/01/2013not on trustee list
• WYATT, Catherine Mary — secretary, appointed 02/12/2020

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN JOHN CHARLES
• ALISON CLAIRE HORWOOD
• Catherine Mary Wyatt
• Jane Marguerite Satchwell
• Joe Pecorelli
• ROB GRAY
• Sharon Denise Young

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

Operates in: Hounslow · Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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