OTTER VALLEY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 278266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as O V A

Development planning oversightHeritage buildings and local history databaseTalks & walksLitter pickingHimalayan Balsam clearance

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES;(B) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.”

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £38,264 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £272,674. The Treasurer's report describes the financial year as satisfactory, noting that assets stand at £272,739 and are held in various bank accounts and investment funds to cover regular outgoings and specific project allocations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deirdre Marie Woods
• Dr Christopher Boorman
• Geoffrey Martin Porter
• Jonathan Kershaw
• Michael Miller
• Peter Charles Ross Williams

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SID VALE ASSOCIATION CIO.

• THE SID VALE ASSOCIATION CIO income £319k
• HERITAGE ASSEMBLY income £106k
• TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £152k
• ORTERSHAM LIMITED income £102k
• THE OTTER TRUST income £62k
• OTTERSPOOL ANIMAL HAVEN income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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