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Registered charity · Keswick

West Cumbria Rivers Trust Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.5m (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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.westcumbriariverstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
West Cumbria Rivers Trust Limited
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.5m£2.3m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£2.6m£2.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: - (1) TO CONSERVE, PROTECT, REHABILITATE AND IMPROVE THE RIVERS, STREAMS, WATERCOURSES AND WATER IMPOUNDMENTS OF THE CATCHMENTS COMPRISING THE RIVERS ANNAS, CALDER, DERWENT, ELLEN, EHEN, IRT, MITE, ESK, WAVER AND WHAMPOOL TOGETHER WITH ANY AND ALL SMALLER BACKS AND STREAMS NOT SPECIFICALLY NAMED HERE WHICH FLOW DIRECTLY TO THE SEA WITHIN AND AROUND THE GENERAL GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF THE ABOVE NAMED RIVERS ALL IN CUMBRIA INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE FOLLOWING LAKES: DERWENT WATER, BASSENTHWAITE LAKE, THIRLMERE, CRUMMOCK WATER, BUTTERMERE, LOWESWATER, ENNERDALE AND WAST WATER (TOGETHER WITH EACH AND EVERY TARN AND SMALL LAKE) AND INCLUDING THE ESTUARIES OF ALL SUCH RIVERS AND THE ADJACENT ESTUARINE AND COASTAL AREAS THERETO AND TO DO LIKEWISE WITH REGARD TO SUCH OTHER RIVER CATCHMENTS IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA CURRENTLY CONSTITUTED BY THE COUNTY OF CUMBRIA AS DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE TRUSTEES. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. (2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, OR ANY ASSOCIATION, INSTITUTION, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION, COMPANY, LOCAL AUTHORITY, ADMINISTRATIVE OR GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR PUBLIC BODY OR REPRESENTATIVE BODY IN: - (A) THE UNDERSTANDING, MANAGEMENT AND USES FOR ALL LAWFUL PURPOSES OF RIVERS, RIVER CORRIDORS AND RIVER CATCHMENTS, INCLUDING THEIR FAUNA, FLORA, BIODIVERSITY, ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY, AND RIVER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT. (B) THE NEED FOR, AND BENEFITS OF CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS.

Grants received

70 grants · £4,602,147 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 · £2,092,055
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £1,901,852 (59 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £542,062 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £29,804 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,8042025-12-04
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £10,0002024-04-01
  • 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 £50,0002024-04-01
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

4.1y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.2y
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 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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 7Education 4Other 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£2.5m 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.

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

27 from 16 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.
48%
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
1142396
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/09/2009NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 15/09/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27/09/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/12/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12 SEP 2017
Companies House
Company number 07019413 · Active
Contact on the register
01768775429 · info@westcumbriariverstrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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