WOODBRIDGE RIVERSIDE TRUST

Registered charity 1159510 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ENHANCE THE CHARACTER OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT THE DEBEN RIVERSIDE, AND TO PROMOTE THE MARITIME HERITAGE OF WOODBRIDGE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC

Objects

1. TO PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ENHANCE THE CHARACTER OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF THE DEBEN RIVERSIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE MARITIME HERITAGE OF WOODBRIDGE.3. TO MANAGE AND DEVELOP THE LONGSHED AS AN INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE COMMUNITY RESOURCE PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE BUILDING IN RELATION TO RIVERINE AND MARITIME HERITAGE, AND OTHER COMMUNITY INTEREST.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £22,169 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the prior year. Free unrestricted reserves excluding designated funds and tangible assets stood at £18,673, which is below the stated policy target of £40,000. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern and note that activities are mainly carried out by unpaid volunteers.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Day
• Jake Daniel Smith
• John Michael Baddeley Cooper
• Nancy McFall Clay
• Patricia Clark
• Richard Alexander Lyon
• Teresa Susan Bale

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• Dee Trust income £511k
• BRIDGE TRUST income £1.3m
• WEST CUMBRIA RIVERS TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• WATERSIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £773k
• WYRE RIVER TRUST income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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