RIBBLE RIVERS TRUST LIMITED

1. RIBBLE RIVERS TRUST LIMITED 2024-05-19 → present
2. RIBBLE CATCHMENT CONSERVATION TRUST LIMITED 1998-01-26 → 2024-05-19

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

PM+M Solutions for Business LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. RIBBLE RIVERS TRUST LIMITED · parent
   1. Ribble Rivers Consultancy Limited · England and Wales · consultancy services

Significant events

• “Continuing to deliver a catchment scale project in the Loud Catchment with United Utilities to reduce flood risk through Natural Flood Risk Management, and to reduce Phosphate sources from agriculture.”
• “Ongoing partnership work with Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust developing the Farm Group in the Upper Ribble the "Ribblesdale Farm Group" looking at Habitat creation and restoration to support reduced Diffuse Pollution and improved Natural Flood Risk Management.”
• “Delivery of our Ribble Revival: Room for River programme supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and DEFRA's Species Survival Fund. Including; Fish Passage on Bezza Brook, as well as Wetland creation near Holden, Long Preston and Hellifield, engagement and volunteering activities, monitoring of impact, and finalising details for delivery of remaining projects in 2025.”
• “Continuation of the Catchment System Thinking Monitoring Cooperative (CaSTCo) project, seeking to increase the use of citizen science to inform action and plans by a range of stakeholders through River Blitz's resulting in action to improve rivers.”
• “Working with the Turning Tides partnership and communities to develop and deliver activities that will support better coast Bathing Waters. This has focused on opportunities in Main Drain, Liggard, Eaves and Savick Brooks.”
• “Delivery of the Lancashire Woodland Connect campaign, which continues our riparian and catchment woodland programme, seeking to deliver a decade of woodland creation, with 63,000 Trees planted and creation of 45 hectares of woodland. Currently the campaign is working to deliver 48 Hectares of woodland in the 25/26 planting season.”
• “Commencement of three EA NFM Programme supported projects in Clitheroe, Darwen and Wrea Green.”
• “Continuation of Trawden Natural Flood Risk Management projects, through the growing Farm Group, with support and funding from the EA.”
• “Ongoing activity within the Mainstreaming Nature Based Solutions programme, a national OFWAT innovation fund supported project, led by United Utilities.”
• “Collaborating with partners to monitoring, investigate and deliver actions to improve the status of the Bathing Water at Edisford which was designated in 2024.”
• “Community Catchments as a campaign secured project funding from United Utilities in 2024, that will see three years of delivery across the Ribble Catchment, supporting development of 4 community catchment initiatives.”
• “The wetland previously developed in 2023 were deliver in spring 2024. This involved close partnership working with the EA, West Lancashire Borough Council, the Friends of Tawd Valley Park and the community. The wetland has developed into a wildlife haven, delivering biodiversity and water quality benefits, and such is the success was the location of a visit from a DEFRA funding and policy team in 2024.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +94.5%

  £1,945,131 → £3,784,016

• Cash

  +150.8%

  £764,477 → £1,917,065

• Net assets

  +124.1%

  £1,197,004 → £2,682,439

• Employees

  +12.5%

  24 → 27

• Profit before tax

  +1,821.2%

  £77,320 → £1,485,435

• Wages

  +21.5%

  £614,880 → £747,274

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers