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The WYE and USK Foundation

(I) To conserve and maintain, protect, restore and improve the environments and habitats of the rivers Wye and Usk, their entire catchments, tributaries, watercourses and estuaries, including the Severn Estuary, together with their fish species...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Animals and 3 more
Where
Gloucestershire, Powys, Ceredigion, Denbighshire and more
Website
www.wyeuskfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The WYE and USK Foundation
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.6m£1.9m
  • 2023£2.0m£2.0m
  • 2022£2.0m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2020£1.5m£1.4m
Charitable objects

(I) To conserve and maintain, protect, restore and improve the environments and habitats of the rivers Wye and Usk, their entire catchments, tributaries, watercourses and estuaries, including the Severn Estuary, together with their fish species especially salmon and other indigenous species of animal and plant life.(ii) To advance education in the conservation of rivers, river catchments and their animal and plant life and the need for conservation, protection, restoration and improvement of such environments for the wellbeing of future generations.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6.1y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Amateur Sport 10Animals 1Religious Activities 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.

Other services 14Finance 6Agriculture 4

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.6m latest income
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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2020

34 from 26 in 2020
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.
47%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1080319
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/04/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/10/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/10/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/01/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/10/2011 as amended on 23 Apr 2019
Companies House
Company number 03343965 · Active
Contact on the register
01874711714 · admin@wyeuskfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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