SWANSEA CANAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1168894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity runs regular work parties to maintain and restore the canal in conjunction with Canal and River Trust, and a small canoe hire operation for local groups and families.We also liaise with local government and other relevant bodies.

Objects

1. TO RESTORE, RECONSTRUCT, PRESERVATION AND MAINTAIN THE SWANSEA CANAL AND TO CONSERVE ITS NATURAL CHARACTER AS A NAVIGABLE INLAND WATERWAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.2. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HISTORY AND USE OF THE CANAL.3. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH A VIEW OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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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Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is financially sound with total funds carried forward of £671,468. The trustees report that risks are mitigated by insurance and safe practices, resulting in no significant problems. The charity relies heavily on voluntary income and grants, with charitable activities accounting for the majority of its expenditure.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 16/02/2024, 11 days after the 05/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gordon David Walkerchair
• Alan Tremlett
• JOHN GWALTER
• James La Trobe-Bateman
• John Raymond Gravelle
• Lance Allan Goodenough
• Sharon Louise Walker Blackford

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

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

• THE LANCASTER CANAL TRUST income £26k
• THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL SOCIETY income £119k
• MONMOUTHSHIRE, BRECON AND ABERGAVENNY CANALS TRUST LIMITED income £145k
• THE GRANTHAM CANAL SOCIETY income £79k
• THE SAFE ANCHOR TRUST LIMITED income £46k
• THE BCN SOCIETY income £269k

Side by side with its peers

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