West Wales Rivers Trust

Through community partnership inititives secure the conservation, protection, rehabilitation and improvement of the rivers, lakes & wetlands of Pembrokeshire.

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion
• Carmarthenshire
• Pembrokeshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire and Adjacent Areas

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £883,964 and spent £964,267.

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

Up 63%, from £541,140 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £883,964 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 109% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

96% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£852,864).

Largest funder

Natural Resources Wales gave £114,128 in the year to 31 March 2025, 13% 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 March 2025: £683,315 from 21 grants. Government contracts: £169,549 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 March 2025, the charity named 17 funders who gave £394,612 between them. £221,611 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 6 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £178,801.

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 3 payments to this charity worth £291,199 between 15 July 2021 and 11 March 2022.

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.

• 19 March 2025, Ceredigion

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Thriving Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee

  Update on Phosphates workstreams

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• 30 January 2024, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Place, Sustainability & Climate Change Scrutiny Committee

  CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ENVIRONMENT ACT FORWARD PLAN JAN 2023 - DEC 2025

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• 17 May 2023, Carmarthenshire

  Named in a decision of Cabinet Member for Deputy Leader and Regeneration, Leisure, Culture and Tourism

  FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE FOLLOWING GRANT FUNDS: RURAL INNOVATION FUND

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

• 15 June 2022

  Named by Joyce Watson in the Senedd

  …ow issues in my region. Just last week, I was contacted by the Ask About the Arth community project, which is working with Dŵr Cymru, the West Wales Rivers Trust and Ceredigion Birds and Wildlife to reduce overflow into the Arth, and to regain a flag status for Aberarth beach. In 2019-20 raw sewage…

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• 12 October 2021

  Named by Julie James in the Senedd

  …authorities across Wales. They’re working in partnership with landowners and key stakeholders, such as Snowdonia National Park Authority, West Wales Rivers Trust and the Woodland Trust, to deliver those mutual benefits. Once the pilots have completed, we’ll be able to take the learning from that and…

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher StrettonAppointed 1 April 2018
• Clive RobertsAppointed 26 April 2017
• Dr Mark Graham MacklinAppointed 13 November 2023
• Edward Thomas Huw EvansAppointed 26 April 2017
• Kay Dearing

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, 2 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1105663

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 August 2004

Governing document

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 18 FEBRUARY 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 FEB 2017AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 24 JAN 2017

Company number

04668878This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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: Pembrokeshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Pembrokeshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro