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Registered charity · Sheffield

DON Catchment Rivers Trust

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £623k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City and more
Website
www.dcrt.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
DON Catchment Rivers Trust
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£623k£626k
  • 2024£649k£755k
  • 2023£649k£755k
Earlier years
  • 2022£857k£535k
  • 2021£482k£368k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) UNDERTAKE, ADVISE UPON, CREATE, CONSERVE AND SUPPORT USE, MANAGEMENT,CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION, IMPROVEMENT OF AND COMMUNITY BENEFITSFROM THE RIVERS, STREAMS, WATERCOURSES, WATER IMPOUNDMENT'S AND OTHER AQUATICENVIRONMENTS OF THE CATCHMENTS COMPRISING THE RIVERS DON, ROTHER AND DEARNE'INCLUDING THEIR TRIBUTARIES AND ADJACENT ESTUARINE AND COASTAL AREAS(B) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OR ANY ASSOCIATION, CHARITY, LOCAL AUTHORITY,ADMINISTRATIVE OR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR PUBLIC BODY OR REPRESENTATIVE BODY IN,(1) THE UNDERSTANDING OF RIVERS, RIVER CORRIDORS AND CATCHMENTS, INCLUDING THEIRFAUNA, FLORA AND ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY, AND RIVER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT,(2) THE NEED FOR, AND BENEFITS OF, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION ANDIMPROVEMENT OF AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS, AND(3) THE BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY OF EFFECTIVE AND COMPETENT MANAGEMENTAND USE OF RIVER CATCHMENTS

Grants received

33 grants · £3,366,447 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £2,526,389 (3 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £389,401 (20 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £199,923 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £185,734 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £50,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002025-01-24
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £15,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £30,0002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £40,0002024-04-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £180,5002023-07-31
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.

8.9y median 11y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 9Education/training 9Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Agriculture 8Arts and leisure 2Tech and media 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£623k 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.4 in 2021

13 from 10 in 2022
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
1134414
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 JUNE 2008 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 30 JANUARY 2010
Companies House
Company number 06618848 · Active
Contact on the register
01142685422 · david.rowley@dcrt.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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