Yeo Rivers Community Trust

Registered charity 1180724 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YEOVIL RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST

The key activities are to promote, protect, restore and create natural and constructed blue infrastructure, e.g. ponds, rivers and sustainable drainage features, to provide multiple benefits for the public and wildlife to combat climate change, deliver enhanced and resilient ecosystems and natural capital for amenity, biodiversity, educational, wellbeing, aesthetic and conservation purposes.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BOTH LOCALLY IN YEOVIL AND THE WIDER PUBLIC WITHIN SOMERSET AND DORSET, THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING AND MAINTAINING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, NOTABLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE RESTORATION, ENHANCEMENT AND CREATION OF WATERCOURSES AND ANY OTHER WATER FEATURES (INCLUDING MULTI-FUNCTION SURFACE FEATURES AS PART OF A SUSTAINABLE DRAINAGE SYSTEM) AND THEIR ADJOINING TERRESTRIAL AREAS. MAINTAINING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCLUDES MANAGING AND MONITORING RELEVANT HABITATS FOR THE MUTUAL BENEFIT OF BIODIVERSITY AND THE PUBLIC.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

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

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Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £21,175 for the year, with total income of £83,372 against expenditure of £62,197. Per the trustees' report, the charity does not currently hold any unallocated financial reserves, as the year-end credit balance of £69,033 consists entirely of restricted grant funds committed to specific projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORNE EDWARD JEANS THOMSONchair
• Anna Marie Anderton
• Josiah David Knights
• THOMAS ANTHONY RICHARD BELL BSC

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

Operates in: Dorset · North Somerset · Somerset

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
• EAST YORKSHIRE RIVERS TRUST income £147k
• THE TRENT RIVERS TRUST income £1.9m
• TEES RIVERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.0m
• INTERNATIONAL ECO FUND income £138k
• WYRE RIVER TRUST income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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