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Registered charity · Cheshire

Canal & River Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £233m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.canalrivertrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Canal & River Trust
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£233m£233m
  • 2024£237m£252m
  • 2023£225m£248m
Earlier years
  • 2022£215m£222m
  • 2021£215m£221m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 27%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1 TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, OPERATE AND MANAGE INLAND WATERWAYS FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT: 2.1.1 FOR NAVIGATION; AND2.1.2 FOR WALKING ON TOWPATHS; AND2.1.2 FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME PURSUITS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE INTEREST OF THEIR HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE;2.2 TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT SITES, OBJECTS AND BUILDINGS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING OR HISTORIC INTEREST ON, IN THE VICINITY OF, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH INLAND WATERWAYS;2.3 TO FURTHER FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE OF INLAND WATERWAYS;2.4 TO PROMOTE, FACILITATE, UNDERTAKE AND ASSIST IN, FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF INLAND WATERWAYS;2.5 TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT AWARENESS, LEARNING AND EDUCATION ABOUT INLAND WATERWAYS, THEIR HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, USE, OPERATION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE BY ALL APPROPRIATE MEANS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MUSEUMS;2.6 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE VICINITY OF ANY INLAND WATERWAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BY:2.6.1 THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN SUCH VICINITY; AND2.6.2 THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; AND2.7 TO FURTHER ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES CONNECTED WITH INLAND WATERWAYS;PROVIDED THAT IN EACH CASE WHERE THE TRUST UNDERTAKES WORK IN RELATION TO PROPERTY WHICH IT DOES NOT OWN OR HOLD IN TRUST, ANY PRIVATE BENEFIT TO THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY IS MERELY INCIDENTAL.

Grants received

70 grants · £96,487,191 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £52,772,688 (9 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £27,866,154 (31 grants)
  • Postcode Earth Trust · £10,100,000 (4 grants)
  • Sport England · £2,942,674 (11 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,764,066 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Sport England £167,0002026-03-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £282,7972026-01-29
  • SHAREGIFT £20,0002025-08-28
  • Postcode Earth Trust £2,500,0002025-02-25
  • Sport England £1,670,0002024-07-02
Board analysis

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.

5 trustees on the board

5.8y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 5Education/training 5Environment/conservation/heritage 5

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

Finance 13Other services 7Dormant 6

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£232.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

43.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.0 in 2021

1805 from 1590 in 2021
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
1146792
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/10/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 SEP 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 SEP 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 SEP 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 SEP 2023
Companies House
Company number 07807276 · Active
Contact on the register
0303 040 4040 · customer.services@canalrivertrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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