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Registered charity · Oxford

Freshwater Habitats Trust

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th 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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.freshwaterhabitats.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Freshwater Habitats Trust
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.8m£2.7m
  • 2024£2.8m£2.7m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2021£1.2m£953k
Charitable objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY OF PONDS, WETLANDS, CATCHMENT SYSTEMS AND OTHER WATER HABITATS;3.2 TO PROMOTE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION AND CREATION OF PONDS, WETLANDS, CATCHMENT SYSTEMS AND OTHER WATER HABITATS, AND THEIR WILDLIFE AND HISTORICAL FEATURES, AND THEIR PRUDENT USE AND ENJOYMENT BY THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:(A) THE PROMOTION AND CONDUCT OF RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF;(B) THE PROMOTION AND CONDUCT OF ACTIVE CONSERVATION AND CREATION OF PONDS, WETLANDS, CATCHMENT SYSTEMS AND OTHER WATER HABITATS BY LAND OWNERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS;3.3 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THING FIT OR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT.

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.

7 trustees on the board

2.3y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
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 7Education/training 2Disability 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 9Agriculture 1Education 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£2.8m 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.

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

43 from 11 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.
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
1107708
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/12/2004AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/07/2013
Companies House
Company number 05317683 · Active
Contact on the register
01865595505 · info@freshwaterhabitats.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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