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Registered charity · Devizes

The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Limited

The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Limited is a registered charity (number 209206) based in Devizes, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Graham Stanley Puddephatt since 2023. Latest income £481k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £481k (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation and 1 more
Where
West Berkshire, Reading, Wiltshire, Bath And North East Somerset and more
Website
www.katrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£481k£456k
  • 2024£585k£364k
  • 2023£446k£506k
Earlier years
  • 2022£432k£477k
  • 2021£326k£360k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL TRUST SEEKS TO: A) PROMOTE, FACILITATE, AND ASSIST IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL AND ITS ASSOCIATED WATERCOURSES, TOWPATHS, STRUCTURES AND BUILDINGS;B) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE KENNET & AVON CANAL AND ITS ASSOCIATED STRUCTURESC) PROTECT AND CONSERVE, OBJECTS, SITES AND BUILDINGS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING OR HISTORIC INTEREST ON, IN THE VICINITY OF, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH THE KENNET & AVON CANAL;D) PROMOTE AND FACILITATE RECREATIONAL USE OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL BY A WIDE SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PUBLIC;

Grants received

7 grants · £686,764 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £650,253 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £21,511 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £15,000

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £15,0002024-01-10
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £27,7602023-02-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £613,2002016-06-21
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £8,5002008-01-21
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £8,5002008-01-21
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.

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

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 10General Charitable Purposes 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.

Arts and leisure 9Education 2Finance 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£585k latest income
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.

19.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

4
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
209206
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/06/1962AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/09/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/05/2015AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/10/2015 as amended on 19 Sep 2020 as amended on 03 Jun 2023
Companies House
Company number 00726331 · Active
Contact on the register
01380721279 · admin@katrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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