The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

Wilts & Berks Canal Trust

Registered charity 299595 Registered since 1988

Operates: West Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Swindon

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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.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

7
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 8Recreation 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 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 8Arts and leisure 2Education 2

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£347k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

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.wbct.org.uk
Emailinfo@wbct.org.uk
Phone0845 625 1977
AddressWilts & Berks Canal Trust, Dauntsey Lock, CHIPPENHAM, SN15 4HD

Finances

£346,704 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£439,362£112,754
2022£388,533£279,068
2023£313,313£311,931
2024£301,945£262,229
2025£346,704£249,192

What it does

What

Environment/conservation/heritageRecreation

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open Space

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSTRUCTION RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A NAVIGABLE WATERWAY LINKING THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL NEAR TROWBRIDGE WITH THE THAMES AND SEVERN CANAL (OR THE RIVER THAMES) NEAR CRICKLADE AND THE RIVER THAMES AT OR NEAR ABINGDON TO GOOD AND NAVIGABLE ORDER AND TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE WATERWAY FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION THE WATERWAY SHALL INCLUDE THOSE PARTS OF THE ORIGINAL ORIGINAL WILTS AND BERKS AND NORTH WILTS CANALS AND THEIR BRANCHES WHICH FORM PART OF THE NAVIGABLE LINKS AND ALL OTHER WATERWAYS BUILDINGS STRUCTURES AND WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WATERWAY.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15TH JUNE 1988 AS AMENDED 31ST OCTOBER 1992, AS AMENDED 18 NOVEMBER 1997, AS AMENDED 25 SEPTEMBER 1998 AND 18TH OCTOBER 2003.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 OCT 2015 as amended on 09 Apr 2022

Trustees (8)

8trustees
67median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Wilts & Berks Canal Trust · 02267719 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 15/06/1988

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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