BRADLEY CANAL RESTORATION SOCIETY
Our activities relate to the conservation and preservation of the Bradley Canal. Through fund-raising, volunteering, awareness-raising and community engagement, we intend to reinstate a stretch of waterway to benefit health, wellbeing, wildlife, environment and general usage of the canal and environment.
Objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE BRADLEY CANAL TO GOOD AND NAVIGABLE ORDER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, BOTH LOCALS AND VISITORS, ABOUT THE REGION’S PROUD INDUSTRIAL HISTORY, CANALS AND WATERWAYS, WILDLIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.2. TO CONSERVE AND ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENT BY LINKING TWO EXISTING WATER HABITATS AND NATURE CORRIDORS BY EXCAVATING AND RESTORING BURIED SECTIONS OF THE BRADLEY CANAL, PROVIDING A NEW WETLAND HABITAT, ALLOWING GREATER MOVEMENT OF SPECIES AND ENCOURAGING BIODIVERSITY, WHICH CAN BE ENJOYED BY LOCAL RESIDENTS AND VISITORS.
Policies the charity declares
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Risk management
- 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)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 50
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 50
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 50
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 31/03/2022 (received 17/02/2023, 17 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).
Trustees
- David Arthur Pearsonchair
- Darren Clift
- Emily Irene Clift
- Gavin Mark Hawkins
- ROBERT DAVID FOX
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/03/2025 | £7k | £4k |
| 31/03/2024 | £3k | £5k |
| 31/03/2023 | £4k | £4k |
| 31/03/2022 | £5k | £4k |
| 01/05/2021 | £6k | £1k |