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Registered charity · Durham

Wear Rivers Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £832k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Sunderland, Durham
Website
www.wear-rivers-trust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wear Rivers Trust
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£832k£839k
  • 2024£580k£615k
  • 2023£484k£544k
Earlier years
  • 2022£463k£440k
  • 2021£328k£435k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 50%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO CONSERVE, PROTECT, REHABILITATE, AND IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPE, RIVERS, STREAMS, WATERCOURSES AND WATER IMPOUNDMENTS OF THE WEAR CATCHMENT, COUNTY DURHAM, INCLUDING WEARDALE, THE LOWER WEAR AND ADJACENT ESTUARINE AND COASTAL AREAS.B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OR ANY ASSOCIATION, COMPANY, LOCAL AUTHORITY, ADMINISTRATIVE OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY OR PUBLIC BODY OR REPRESENTATIVE BODY IN - (1) THE UNDERSTANDING OF RIVERS, RIVER CORRIDORS AND CATCHMENTS, INCLUDING THEIR FAUNA, FLORA AND ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY, AND RIVER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT.(2) THE NEED FOR, AND BENEFITS OF, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS

Grants received

64 grants · £848,934 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £705,318 (53 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £66,300
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £24,999 (3 grants)
  • Northern Rock Foundation · £24,272 (2 grants)
  • Community Foundation North East · £17,800 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £11,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £17,2502024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £33,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £51,7502024-04-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

3y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 7General Charitable Purposes 7Economic/community Development/employment 1Education/training 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 8Professional services 3Hospitality 1

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£832k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

21 from 15 in 2024
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
1094613
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/07/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/10/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04/12/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/08/2012
Companies House
Company number 04260195 · Active
Contact on the register
07786886014 · admin@wear-rivers-trust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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