Registered charity (CIO) · Welingborough
Nene Rivers Trust CIO
- 9 trustees
- Income £748k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Sharn MatthewsChair · since 2022
- Benjamin James Walton Smith MScTrustee · since 2022
- Clive Frederick HallamTrustee · since 2022
- John Griffiths-Elsden DLTrustee · since 2022
- John Mitchell SinclairTrustee · since 2022
- Marian Cameron BSc MScTrustee · since 2022
- Nicholas HammondTrustee · since 2022
- Oliver BurkeTrustee · since 2022
- Simon ToselandTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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Public contracts won
4 contracts · £326,807 totalFrom Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.
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NFM Brigstock site 4
Management of the supply and delivery of natural flood management works at Brigstock site 4.
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NFM Brigstock site 1
Preliminary works, mobilisation, setting out features for sites, pond creation, leaky dam installation, bund creation
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NFM - Brigstock site 2
Delivery of a natural flood management scheme upstream of Brigstock village in Northamptonshire.
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NFM Brigstock site 1
Delivery of natural flood management scheme through LENs at Brigstock site 1.
About
- What it does
- Education/training, Disability, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire
- Website
- neneriverstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2022
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£748k£596k
- 2024£724k£477k
- 2023£951k£558k
Income trend, 2023 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 47% · Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:4.1 THE PROMOTION OF THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:4.1.1 SUPPORTING THE PROTECTION AND RECOVERY OF THE ENVIRONMENT FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, LIMITING THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, SUPPORTING THE ELIMINATION OF THE CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORTING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITIES TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGING CLIMATE; AND4.1.2 THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RIVERS OF THE NENE CATCHMENT, THEIR TRIBUTARIES, THEIR SOURCES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA;4.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):4.2.1 HORTICULTURE, ARBORICULTURE, AGRICULTURE, RIVERS AND WETLANDS, WILD PLANTS AND WILDLIFE; AND4.2.2 THE CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE OF THE NENE CATCHMENT; AND4.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE PUBLIC BY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROVIDING AND PROMOTING ACCESS TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.IN THIS CLAUSE 4 NENE CATCHMENT MEANS THE CATCHMENT OF THAT NAME AS IDENTIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME VIA THE CATCHMENT BASED APPROACH.
Grants received
2 grants · £263,599 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
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £248,599
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £15,000
Most recent
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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
- Sharn Matthews Chair since 2022
- Benjamin James Walton Smith MSc since 2022
- Clive Frederick Hallam since 2022
- John Griffiths-Elsden DL since 2022
- John Mitchell Sinclair since 2022
- Marian Cameron BSc MSc since 2022
- Nicholas Hammond since 2022
- Oliver Burke since 2022
- Simon Toseland since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Sharn Matthews Chair since 2022
- Benjamin James Walton Smith MSc since 2022
- Clive Frederick Hallam since 2022
- John Griffiths-Elsden DL since 2022
- John Mitchell Sinclair since 2022
- Marian Cameron BSc MSc since 2022
- Nicholas Hammond since 2022
- Simon Toseland since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Oliver Burke since 2022
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.
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
1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 8.5 in 2023
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1199701
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 19 Jul 2022
- Contact on the register
- 0330 174 2910 · info@neneriverstrust.org
- 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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