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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

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 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 Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £29,266 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £8,974

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £8,9742022-08-10
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £22,5002020-11-09
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £6,7662020-11-09
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

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (5)

2
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 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1Recreation 1

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

Professional services 2Arts and leisure 1Education 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

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
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