ASHBY CANAL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1063566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as A.C.A.

To preserve, promote, enhance the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal, for the benefit of all, and to assist the restoration of the Northern Reaches of the canal

Objects

FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST AND APPRECIATION OF THE HISTORY, STRUCTURE AND BEAUTY OF THE ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE CANAL, KNOWN AS THE ASHBY CANAL, AND WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM SUCH FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North West Leicestershire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £2,205.37 for the year ended 30th September 2025, with total funds carried forward amounting to £187,657.57. The trustees report that the charity is a going concern and has no current liabilities. The policy is to maintain reserves sufficient to meet anticipated revenue expenditure in the short term, up to one year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03396198

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JENKINS, Arran Philip — director, appointed 02/01/2022on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Robert Timothy — director, appointed 15/01/2018on trustee list
• WALKER, Clive Jonathan Barton — director, appointed 11/11/2013on trustee list
• OAKDEN, Peter — director, appointed 10/11/2008on trustee list
• ASTON, Cindy — director, appointed 13/11/2000on trustee list
• HETHERINGTON, William Gray — secretary, appointed 05/07/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER OAKDENchair
• ARRAN PHILIP JENKINS
• CINDY ANN ASTON
• CLIVE JONATHAN BARTON WALKER
• DAVID NIGEL WATTS
• Michael John Jeffs
• ROBERT TIMOTHY TAYLOR
• RODNEY JAMES SMITH

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL SOCIETY.

• THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL SOCIETY income £119k
• THE SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £190k
• LICHFIELD AND HATHERTON CANALS RESTORATION TRUST LIMITED income £411k
• FRIENDS OF THE CROMFORD CANAL income £113k
• HUDDERSFIELD CANAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £34k
• THE CHICHESTER SHIP CANAL TRUST income £77k

Side by side with its peers

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