RIVER THAMES SOCIETY

Registered charity 288380 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the River Thames Society continues to be that of preserving and promoting the beauties and amenities of the River Thames

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION THE BEAUTIES AND AMENITIES OF THE RIVER THAMES AND THE PRESERVATION OF LANDS AND TENEMENTS (INCLUDING BUILDINGS) OF BEAUTY OR HISTORIC INTEREST ADJACENT TO THE RIVER THAMES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THEIR NATURAL ASPECT AND THE PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC RECREATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE RIVER THAMES.

Area of benefit: THE RIVER THAMES

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,893 for the year ended 31 October 2025, compared to a deficit of £943 in the prior year. Unrestricted reserves decreased from £216,141 to £209,248, with the trustees confirming that adequate resources remain available to fund activities for the foreseeable future.

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 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Finchchair
• ABIGAIL HELEN ELIZABETH REYNOLDS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Milsom
• Andrew Wallace
• Anita Lightstone
• GREGORY WILKINSON
• Hilary Pereira
• John Richard Tamsitt
• Michael William Sullivan
• Nicholas Bourne
• Peter John Hall
• Roy Miller
• Thomas Robert Berman

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Essex · Gloucestershire · Kent · Oxfordshire · Reading · Surrey · Throughout London · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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