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Registered charity · Stroud

The Cotswold Canals Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £609k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Recreation
Where
Gloucestershire, Wiltshire
Website
www.cotswoldcanals.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cotswold Canals Trust
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£609k£485k
  • 2024£537k£434k
  • 2023£837k£407k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£506k
  • 2021£710k£3.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE TRUST IS ESTABLISHED ARE:(A) THE PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE IN GOOD ORDER AND IMPROVEMENT OF CANALS, NAVIGABLE RIVERS AND INLAND WATERWAYS (HEREINAFTER CALLED “NAVIGATIONS”) FOR THE USE OF THE PUBLIC.(B) TO PROMOTE THE USE OF THE NAVIGATIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. (C) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, USE OF AND WILDLIFE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NAVIGATIONS.(D) TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES ON THE NAVIGATION (& CONNECTED WATERWAYS AND TOWPATHS) IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEED, FOR EXAMPLE BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.(E) TO FURTHER FOR PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT, THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE NATURAL FEATURES AND WILDLIFE HABITATS OF THE NAVIGATIONS LANDSCAPE.(F) TO FURTHER ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES CONNECTED WITH THE NAVIGATIONS.?

Grants received

4 grants · £230,240 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

Most recent

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

5y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (4)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11Recreation 11

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 11Property 3Retail and trade 3

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£609k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.1 in 2021

6 from 5 in 2021
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
269721
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16TH APRIL 1975, AMENDED 29TH AUGUST 2003, AMENDED 5 APRIL 2006.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 APR 2019 as amended on 26 Oct 2019 as amended on 23 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 01207787 · Active
Contact on the register
01453752568 · mail@cotswoldcanals.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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