Registered charity · Lancashire

Ribble Rivers Trust Limited

10 trustees
Income £3.8m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: Lancashire, North Yorkshire
Website: www.ribbletrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Ribble Rivers Trust Limited
Registered: 1998

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£3.8m£2.3m
2024£2.0m£1.9m
2023£2.2m£2.2m

Earlier years

2022£2.1m£2.0m
2021£2.0m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) To conserve, protect, rehabilitate and improve rivers, streams, watercourses and water impoundments, tributaries, banksides, margins and land of and within, but not limited to, the catchments comprising the rivers Ribble, Hodder, Calder, Darwen and Douglas, including adjacent estuarine and coastal areas, for the advancement of environmental protection or improvement particularly within the said geographic area for the benefit of the public. (2) To advance the education of the public, or any association, institution, voluntary organisation, company, local or area authority, administrative or governmental agency or public body or representative body or those involved in agriculture, aquaculture horticulture and land management in: - (a) The rivers, river corridors and river catchments, including their fauna, flora, biodiversity, economic or social activity, and river catchment management. (b) The need for, and benefits of, conservation, protection, rehabilitation and improvement of aquatic environments.

Grants received

47 grants · £4,567,773 total

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Top funders

The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,797,100 (3 grants)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £1,050,671 (36 grants)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £479,536 (2 grants)
Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £180,564
The National Lottery Community Fund · £29,803 (2 grants)

Most recent

Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside £3,9602025-09-18
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £149,6362024-08-28
The National Lottery Community Fund £19,8502024-06-17
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £75,0002024-04-01

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

6y median 6y

average tenure

12y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

Jeremy John Bruce Rawkins since 2019

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 9Accommodation/housing 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 15Health and social care 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£3.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.1 in 2021

27 from 23 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1070672
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 JANUARY 1998AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 19 MAY 2024 as amended on 18 Jul 2024
Companies House: Company number 03498691 · Active
Contact on the register: 01200 444452 · info@ribbletrust.com
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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