The Wye and Usk Foundation

Projects and actions to improve riparian habitats and water quality for salmon and other indigenous species of animal and plant life of the rivers Wye and Usk and their tributaries and catchments and economic benefits through the regeneration of fisheries and associated angling tourism.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Powys
• Ceredigion
• Denbighshire
• Monmouthshire
• Gwynedd
• Torfaen

Elsewhere

• Gloucestershire
• Herefordshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: River Wye and Usk

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £1,729,690 and spent £1,855,453.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

About the same: £1,729,690 in the year to 31 December 2025, against £1,763,530 in the year to 31 December 2021.

Spending against income

It spent 107% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

51% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£879,772).

Largest funder

Powys County Council gave £314,410 in the year to 31 December 2025, 18% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: £414,383 from 10 grants. Government contracts: £465,389 from 8 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2025, the charity named 10 funders who gave £1,141,458 between them. £711,567 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £30,000.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 8 payments to this charity worth £265,332 between 20 April 2021 and 3 June 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 30 July 2026, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Place Scrutiny Committee

  Local Flood Risk Management Strategy - To scrutinise the strategy in light of the consultation responses received and the Winter flooding in 2025.

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• 13 July 2026, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  River Wye Update & Water Crowfoot Species Action Plan

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• 13 July 2026, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  Field to Flow Landscape Connections Application

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• 3 November 2025, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  NLHF Landscape Connections Expression of Interest

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• 3 November 2025, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  River Wye update

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• 10 July 2025, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Place Scrutiny Committee

  Local Flood Strategy (with Public Services members) - Pre-decision scrutiny of adoption of the Local Flood Strategy

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• 23 January 2025, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  From County Councillor Tony Kear to County Councillor Catrin Maby, Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Environment

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• 8 July 2024, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  FiPL, SDF & HCF Grants update

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• 6 November 2023, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  FiPL, SDF & HCF AONB Fund update

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• 7 November 2022, Monmouthshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Wye Valley National Landscape Joint Advisory Committee

  River Wye Emergency and Action

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 10 May 2023

  Named by Huw Irranca-Davies in the Senedd

  …t allow long-term prioritisation of those long-term schemes we need. Now, I notice that, recently, the Minister for Climate Change met the Wye and Usk Foundation and Swansea University to see some schemes funded under the nature networks fund. The Minister, I understand, was very impressed by the vi…

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• 2 March 2022

  Named by Alun Davies in the Senedd

  …u'd imagine, Peter, and one of the really, really traumatic issues I look at sometimes is the impact on the Wye at the moment. I think the Wye and Usk Foundation provided us with a route-map for how we manage water quality over a period of time. I'm not sure where we've gone wrong on that, and I wou…

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• 3 February 2022

  Named by Steve Wilson in the Senedd

  On the River Wye, in the Herefordshire patch, we've agreed in a partnership with Herefordshire Council, ourselves, and the Wye and Usk Foundation to put in—at the moment I think it's around three, it might be up to five; I'll need to check on this—wetlands, where actually we're going well beyond our…

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• 3 February 2022

  Named by Steve Wilson in the Senedd

  …place. And then around particularly the River Wye, we've got a number of nature-based solutions under way, working in partnership with the Wye and Usk Foundation, to actually do some nutrient offsetting. We're putting in some wetlands on our sites with the Wye and Usk Foundation, to allow developers…

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• 25 November 2021

  Named by Creighton Harvey in the Senedd

  …n a wider basis. NRW have to regulate, but there are other ways in which advice can be given to farmers. There's the Afonydd Cymru and the Wye and Usk Foundation advice given on the two catchments in west Wales, one on the Ceri, which is a Teifi tributary, and one on the western Cleddau. Yes, there…

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12 trustees run the charity.

• Charles Newington-BridgesChairAppointed 4 November 2016
• Alan Philip Johnson FRCSAppointed 1 June 2018
• Andrew John PyleAppointed 24 November 2023
• Anthea Elizabeth Joy McIntyreAppointed 21 March 2025
• Charles Beresford Parry De WintonAppointed 24 June 2022
• Dr Anthony Robert Douglas LaversAppointed 19 March 2021
• Elizabeth PasseyAppointed 13 June 2011
• Fiona Margaret HillmanAppointed 19 March 2021
• Jonathan Fiennes BengoughAppointed 24 June 2022
• Matthew James Newsum TaylorAppointed 24 November 2023
• Peter John HorsburghAppointed 4 November 2016
• Richard Laurence NormanAppointed 19 March 2021

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

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Charity number

1080319

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 April 2000

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/04/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/10/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/10/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/01/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/10/2011 as amended on 23 Apr 2019

Company number

03343965This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.wyeuskfoundation.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Powys Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Powys's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn