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Registered charity · Harrogate

Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £709k (2025)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
North Yorkshire, Darlington, Leeds City
Website
www.ydrt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£709k£670k
  • 2024£600k£570k
  • 2023£373k£433k
Earlier years
  • 2022£409k£429k
  • 2021£630k£729k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 60%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO CONSERVE, PROTECT, REHABILITATE AND IMPROVE THE RIVERS, STREAMS, WATERCOURSES AND WATER IMPOUNDMENTS OF THE CATCHMENTS OF THE RIVERS WHARFE, NIDD, URE, AND SWALE AND ASSOCIATED RIVER SYSTEMS THAT MAY INFLUENCE THE WATER QUALITY, FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE YORKSHIRE DALES RIVERS. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OR ANY ASSOCIATION, COMPANY, LOCAL AUTHORITY, ADMINISTRATIVE OR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR PUBLIC BODY OR REPRESENTATIVE BODY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE TOWNSHIPS OF THE YORKSHIRE DALES IN: (1) THE UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYMENT OF RIVERS, RIVER CORRIDORS AND CATCHMENTS, INCLUDING THEIR FAUNA, FLORA AND ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY, AND RIVER CATCHMENTS MANAGEMENT (2) THE NEED FOR, AND BENEFITS OF, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS.

Grants received

71 grants · £1,543,637 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 · £1,119,351 (65 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £404,426 (4 grants)
  • Two Ridings Community Foundation · £10,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,860

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £245,7262024-12-11
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £10,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002023-04-01
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.

9 trustees on the board

4.2y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

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 9Amateur Sport 1Disability 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 9Arts and leisure 2Retail and trade 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£709k 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: 4.0 months · was 0.9 in 2021

11 from 7 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.
62%
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
1107918
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 SEPTEMBER 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 3 FEBRUARY 2005 as amended on 15 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 05220147 · Active
Contact on the register
07920387544 · marie.taylor@ydrt.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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