THE WOODEN CANAL BOAT SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 1069820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOODEN CANAL BOAT SOCIETY LIMITED

Helping people experiencing loneliness and social exclusion by providing volunteering and employment opportunities through the preservation of historic wooden canal boats, boat recycling trips and a charity shop. Offering wellbeing breaks for disadvantaged people and those with depression or mental illness. Preserving traditional boat building skills and the heritage surrounding these boats.

Objects

TO PRESERVE, RESTORE AND MAINTAIN WOODEN CANAL BOATS OF VARIOUS TYPES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLICTO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF WOODEN CANAL BOATS OF VARIOUS TYPESTO RELIEVE PERSONS RECOVERING FROM MENTAL ILL-HEALTH OR STRESS RELATED ILLNESS BY THE PROVISION OF A CANAL BOAT HOLIDAYTO USE WOODEN CANAL BOATS FOR ANY OTHER R CHARITABLE PURPOSE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALESS

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tameside, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £2,180 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £65,671 and expenditure of £67,851. The trustees confirm that free reserves stood at £103,040, significantly exceeding their stated policy target of approximately £17,000 (three months of unrestricted expenditure). Consequently, the trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03295718

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.

• LATHAM, David Paul — director, appointed 26/07/2026on trustee list
• DAY, Christine — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list
• SHERRY, Helen Julia — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Rowland
• Christine Day
• David Latham
• Helen Julia Sherry

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

Operates in: Bolton · Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Lancashire · Manchester City · Oldham · Staffordshire · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESCUE WOODEN BOATS.

• RESCUE WOODEN BOATS income £45k
• THE STOCKPORT CANAL BOAT TRUST FOR DISABLED PEOPLE income £64k
• THE SALTISFORD CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £157k
• OLD BOAT CORNER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £485k
• WIRRAL COMMUNITY NARROWBOAT TRUST income £44k
• THE SAFE ANCHOR TRUST LIMITED income £46k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.