The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

The WEY and Arun Canal Trust Limited

Registered charity 265331 Registered since 1973

Operates: Surrey, West Sussex

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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.

9 trustees on the board

7.2y median 7y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 9Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Other services 10Arts and leisure 2Business services 1

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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£607k 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.

11.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.8 in 2020

6 from 7 in 2020
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.weyarun.org.uk
Emailsupport@weyarun.org.uk
Phone01403752403
AddressWey & Arun Canal Trust, Canal Centre, Onslow Wharf, High Street,Loxwood, BILLINGSHURST, West Sussex, RH14 0RD

Finances

£816,107 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£788,112£681,386
2022£519,040£556,529
2023£679,941£695,265
2024£607,474£478,179
2025£816,107£595,250

What it does

What

Environment/conservation/heritage

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

For the purposes of these Objects ‘the Wey & Arun Canal’ means a waterway from the Wey Navigation in the vicinity of Gun’s Mouth, Shalford, Surrey to the River Arun in the vicinity of Pallingham, West Sussex, including, but not limited to, the abandoned but partially restored Wey & Arun Junction Canal and Arun Navigation,The Objects are, for the public benefit:4.1 to promote and facilitate the restoration, preservation, conservation, protection, improvement, construction, use, and maintenance in good order, of the Wey & Arun Canal and its associated watercourses, towpaths, structures, buildings, other works and adjacent land;4.2 to promote, facilitate and provide facilities for the use of the Wey & Arun Canal including the use of the Wey & Arun Canal for navigation and recreation;4.3 to preserve, conserve and improve the natural environment of the Wey & Arun Canal and adjacent land and provide education and share information about it; and4.4 to protect, conserve, research, and provide education and share information about:(a) the heritage associated with, and(b) structures, objects and sites of archaeological, architectural, engineering or historical interest of, or associated with,the Wey & Arun Canal.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5TH FEBRUARY 1973, AMENDED 10TH JUNE 1993 AND 30 APRIL 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 APR 2018 as amended on 22 Apr 2023 as amended on 28 Apr 2023

Trustees (9)

9trustees
74median age
6aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

WEY & Arun Canal Trust Limited (the) · 01094232 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 05/02/1973

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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