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Registered charity (CIO) · Stockport

Mersey Rivers Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.merseyrivers.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2024£975k£843k
  • 2023£683k£655k
Earlier years
  • 2022£937k£1.1m

Income trend, 2022 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 69%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND WHERE APPLICABLE DELIVER PROJECTS FOR THE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, AND DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AND RURAL WATERWAYS AND THEIR ENVIRONS, INCLUDING ADJACENT ESTUARINE AND COASTAL AREAS AS DEFINED IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT AND ITS WILDLIFE. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUES RELATING TO SECURING, IMPROVING AND MAINTAINING SUCH URBAN AND RURAL WATERWAYS AND THEIR ENVIRONS. TO PROMOTE AND WHERE APPLICABLE DELIVER PROJECTS FOR THE USE OF AND ACCESS AND TO SUCH URBAN AND RURAL WATERWAYS AND WATERSIDES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

7 grants · £170,331 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 · £170,331 (7 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £11,2502024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £4,5002024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £13,6782024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £3,8182024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £14,1822024-04-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.1y median 5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

3
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 10Amateur Sport 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.

Arts and leisure 3Health and social care 1Other services 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 4 years.
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.2m 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.

2.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.2 in 2022

24 from 13 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
1196777
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 25 Nov 2021
Contact on the register
07503178433 · info@merseyrivers.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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