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Registered charity · Chesterfield

The Chesterfield Canal Trust Limited

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City, Derbyshire and more
Website
www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Chesterfield Canal Trust Limited
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£306k
  • 2024£3.3m£200k
  • 2023£886k£213k
Earlier years
  • 2022£515k£299k
  • 2021£227k£176k
Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE RESTORATION OF WATERWAYS FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC(2) TO PROMOTE THE FULLEST USE OF WATERWAYS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND(3) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND USE OF CANALS AND WATERWAYS

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

5.8y median 5.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10Recreation 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 10Business services 1Property 1

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Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 36.2 in 2021

1 from 1 in 2022
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1071376
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14 JULY 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 30 SEPTEMBER 1998 AND 26 MARCH 2007.
Companies House
Company number 03403203 · Active
Contact on the register
01246 477569 · contact@chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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