Tees Rivers Charitable Trust

Analysis

Tees Rivers Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Co Durham. It was registered in April 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, amateur sport and animals, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06832672). It says it provides other finance, provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Tees Rivers Charitable Trust reported income of £2.0m and spending of £1.3m, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £611k to £2.0m (+228%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 410%. Over the whole period it spent 41% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Tees Rivers Charitable Trust sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wac Arts (£2.0m), Club Doncaster Community Sports & Education Foundation (£2.0m) and Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (£2.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 59%, trading 40% and investments 1.1%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £791k would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 15 people.