Registered charity (CIO) · Banbury
Tooley's Boatyard Trust
- 11 trustees
- Income £26k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Richard David Benedict GuardChair · since 2024
- Andrew MchughTrustee · since 2022
- Anthony O'DonnellTrustee · since 2026
- Chukwudi Peter Festus OkekeTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Catherine SaffinTrustee · since 2019
- Dr Richard Ivan GroveTrustee · since 2026
- John Ernest SprattTrustee · since 2019
- John Roger MaddenTrustee · since 2019
- Jonathan Mark WaltonTrustee · since 2023
- Paul RodgersTrustee · since 2023
- Verna SmithTrustee · since 2021
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
- Where
- Oxfordshire
- Website
- tooleysboatyardtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£26k£19k
- 2024£10k£10k
- 2023£9k£23k
Earlier years
- 2022£20k£16k
- 2021£74k£41k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ESTABLISHING TOOLEY’S BOATYARD AS A WORKING HERITAGE CENTRE OF NARROWBOAT MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION DESIGNED TO ENHANCE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF NARROWBOATS AND CANAL LIFE AND THE KEY ROLE PLAYED BY BANBURY, AND TOOLEY’S BOATYARD IN PARTICULAR, IN THE HISTORY OF CANALS. 2) TO PRESERVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TOOLEY’S BOATYARD AS A BUILDING OF HISTORIC INTEREST.
Grants received
3 grants · £38,240 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £29,266 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £8,974
Most recent
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
11 trustees on the board
- Richard David Benedict Guard Chair since 2024
- Andrew Mchugh since 2022
- Anthony O'Donnell since 2026
- Chukwudi Peter Festus Okeke since 2024
- Dr Catherine Saffin since 2019
- Dr Richard Ivan Grove since 2026
- John Ernest Spratt since 2019
- John Roger Madden since 2019
- Jonathan Mark Walton since 2023
- Paul Rodgers since 2023
- Verna Smith since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Catherine Saffin since 2019
- John Ernest Spratt since 2019
- John Roger Madden since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Richard David Benedict Guard Chair since 2024
- Anthony O'Donnell since 2026
- Dr Catherine Saffin since 2019
- Dr Richard Ivan Grove since 2026
- John Roger Madden since 2019
- Verna Smith since 2021
Portfolio (5)
- Andrew Mchugh since 2022
- Chukwudi Peter Festus Okeke since 2024
- John Ernest Spratt since 2019
- Jonathan Mark Walton since 2023
- Paul Rodgers since 2023
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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1182371
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Mar 2019
- Contact on the register
- 07831421175 · john@tooleysboatyardtrust.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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