RIVER ACTION UK

Registered charity 1194995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141549923

To raise awareness on river pollution and apply pressure on industrial and agricultural producers to take greater responsibility for remedying the adverse environmental impact their supply chains are having on the health of our UK rivers.

Objects

The object of the CIO is, for the public benefit, to advance education in, and to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of, the physical and natural environment, in particular in relation to rivers and other bodies of water.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total assets decreased to £426,600, with unrestricted reserves of £340,423. The trustees report that these unrestricted reserves are slightly above the policy target of three months of operational costs (£300,000). The charity generated a net deficit of £77,569 for the period but reports a healthy surplus for the next year based on successful fundraising.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — River Action (matched by registered charity number).

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Non Cash: Charlie Maynard (MP - Member of Parliament) — £3k · 18/08/2026 · ref NC0841178
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Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Basil Lucas Watson BAchair
• Daniella Maria Boon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Maria Maitland Mosley · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Edward Macpherson
• James Richard Murray
• Marina Gibson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Emma Maria Maitland Mosley — trustee here and at THE ALEXANDER MOSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION FOR THE RIVER KENNET.

• ACTION FOR THE RIVER KENNET income £559k
• THE AIRE RIVERS TRUST income £476k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• CLEAN RIVERS TRUST income £58k
• RIVER THAMES SOCIETY income £49k
• RIVERS FOUNDATION income £338k

Side by side with its peers

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