Registered charity · Merseyside
Wyre River Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £2.1m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
- Where
- Lancashire
- Website
- www.wyreriverstrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Wyre River Trust
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.1m£2.0m
- 2024£697k£793k
- 2023£591k£509k
Earlier years
- 2022£235k£284k
- 2021£545k£322k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 30%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RIVER WYRE AND SURROUNDING AREA FROM ITS SOURCE TO THE IRISH SEA INCLUDING ITS FLORA AND FAUNA FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT
Grants received
23 grants · £740,139 total360Giving 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 · £740,139 (23 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Philip Robson Chair since 2012
- Alan Edney since 2012
- David Lawson since 2025
- Dr Andrew Martin Folkard since 2021
- Graeme Cook since 2017
- Jean Wilson since 2023
- Michael James Gornall since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Philip Robson Chair since 2012
- Alan Edney since 2012
- Graeme Cook since 2017
- Michael James Gornall since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Philip Robson Chair since 2012
- Alan Edney since 2012
- David Lawson since 2025
- Dr Andrew Martin Folkard since 2021
- Graeme Cook since 2017
- Jean Wilson since 2023
- Michael James Gornall since 2016
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 15.5 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1161776
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 MAR 2012
- Companies House
- Company number 08008486 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01704 500299 · info@fellgrills.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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