The Alde & Ore Estuary Trust

Analysis

The Alde & Ore Estuary Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Orford. It was registered in December 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Alde & Ore Estuary Trust reported income of £53k and spending of £100k, spending 188% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £119k to £53k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Alde & Ore Estuary Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Cheshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (£53k), The Second World War Experience Centre (£54k) and Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (£53k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.