STOURBRIDGE NAVIGATION TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1094294 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Control, maintenance and enhancement of waterside conservation area and listed buildings

Objects

FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RESTORE PRESERVE MAINTAIN IN GOOD ORDER AND IMPROVE AND MAKE FULLY NAVIGABLE THE CANAL (HEREINAFTER THE "CANAL") MEANING THAT PART OF THE UNDERTAKING OF BRITISH WATERWAYS WHICH IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1948 WAS COMPRISED IN (A) THE UNDERTAKINGS OF THE COMPANY OF PROPRIETORS OF THE STOURBRIDGE NAVIGATION AND (B) THE STOURBRIDGE EXTENSION CANAL UNDERTAKING OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND ANY BUILDING STRUCTURE OR CANAL FURNITURE ASSOCIATED WITH OR FORMING PART OF THE CANAL LYING WITHIN A CONSERVATION AREA AS WAS DESIGNATED WHEN THE STOURBRIDGE NAVIGATION TRUST WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL OF DUDLEY OR THE THEN COUNTY COUNCIL OF WEST MIDLANDS UNDER SECTION S277 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971 AND ENCOMPASSING ANY PART THEREOF OR WHICH IS A BUILDING (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 290 OF THE SAID ACT OF 1971) LISTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT UNDER SECTION 54 OF THE SAID ACT OF 1971 AS A BUILDING OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST OR AN ANCIENT MONUMENT AS DEFINED BY SECTION 61 OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS ACT 1979 AND TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO PROMOTE THE FULLEST USE OF THE CANAL BY ALL FORMS OF WATERBORNE TRAFFIC AND ALL FORMS OF WATER RELATED RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS AFORESAID WITH THE INLAND WATERWAY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE STOURBRIDGE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is self-supporting with no external funding received and maintains unrestricted reserves of £158,651. The trustees confirm 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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN JAMES COWDALEchair
• ANN POLLARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS DYCHE
• DAVID MURRAY CAUNT
• Dr Paul Henry Collins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey Thomas Cooke
• LANCE CARTWRIGHT
• MALCOLM PERKS
• NICOLAS ANTHONY BARLOW
• PAULINE HOOPER
• STEVEN GRAY

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

Operates in: Dudley

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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