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Registered charity · London

Thames21 Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals and 2 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.thames21.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Thames21 Limited
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.2m£3.3m
  • 2024£3.0m£3.1m
  • 2023£2.5m£2.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.3m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 32% · Government grants 21%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROTECT, MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE THE NATION'S RIVERS CANALS AND OTHER ASSOCIATED FEATURES (THE "WATERWAYS") IN PARTICULAR BY:(A) THE REMOVAL OF LITTER, WASTE AND DEBRIS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN THE PLANTS, WILDLIFE AND ECOSYSTEMS OF THE WATERWAYS AND OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS WHETHER BY TEACHING, PRODUCING MATERIALS OR BY CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH (AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH); AND (C) RAISING AWARENESS OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE WATERWAYS MIGHT BE PROTECTED FROM POLLUTION AND IMPROVED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE IN PARTICULAR BY THE USE OF PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, THE MEDIA, PUBLIC ADVOCACY AND OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATION.

Grants received

144 grants · £8,127,139 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 · £1,773,358 (114 grants)
  • LUND TRUST · £1,758,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,745,280 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £955,468 (2 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £888,739 (7 grants)

Most recent

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.

9 trustees on the board

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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

Utilities 9Other services 3Business services 2

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£3.2m 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.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

49 from 26 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.
53%
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
1103997
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 DECEMBER 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 27 APRIL 2004 AND 9 AUGUST 2004.
Companies House
Company number 04985828 · Active
Contact on the register
02072487175 · info@thames21.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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