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 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- Postcode Earth Trust
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
- David Orr CBE Chair since 2022
- Bronagh Kennedy since 2022
- Clair Jennifer Price CBE since 2018
- IAN Peters since 2022
- SIR Christopher Kelly KCB since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Clair Jennifer Price CBE since 2018
- SIR Christopher Kelly KCB since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- David Orr CBE Chair since 2022
- Bronagh Kennedy since 2022
- Clair Jennifer Price CBE since 2018
- IAN Peters since 2022
- SIR Christopher Kelly KCB since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
43.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.0 in 2021
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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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