River Holme Connections

Registered charity 1163873 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIVER 2015

River Holme Connections (RHC) aims to open up access to the River Holme from its origins to its junction with the River Colne for the benefit of local people and visitors to the Holme Valley. It also undertakes practical tasks to improve the river environment and to educate people about the river's environmental importance.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE RIVER HOLME CORRIDOR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE RIVER HOLME CORRIDOR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £639,774 against total expenditure of £582,013, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £189,531, with £87,386 in free general reserves, which the trustees consider sufficient to fund day-to-day operations.

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 6 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 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
• Paying staff
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• One Community Foundation — “A huge thank you to the One Community Foundation for supporting the work of River Holme Connections in 2026 through: Thornton Family Fund (£…” (source page)

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Noblechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Barraclough
• Arthur Lovitt
• Chris Abell
• Chris Green
• Lynva Russell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tom Benjamin Harman
• Trevor Doherty

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

Operates in: Kirklees

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 HOLME FAMILY CONNECT.

• HOLME FAMILY CONNECT income £35k
• RIVER THAME CONSERVATION TRUST income £600k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• HOLME VALLEY U3A income £91k
• CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN CONNECTION WITH CLEEVE HILL COMMON income £310k
• RIBBLE RIVERS TRUST LIMITED income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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