THE INLAND WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 212342 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE INLAND WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION LIMITED, WATERWAY RECOVERY GROUP

Activities to achieve a widely appreciated and well maintained network of inland waterways available for the benefit of all. We are the only national charity that campaigns locally and nationally for all the country's canals and river navigations.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free funds at year-end were £813,914, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target range of £350,000 to £700,000. The trustees confirmed that the group will be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least twelve months from the date of approval, with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Howard Porter
• David Chapman
• Dr Ian Christopher Redmond Sesnan
• Hannah Rigley
• Michael John Wills
• Paul Strudwick
• Peter John Court Marlow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rt Hon Sir Robert James Atkins

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION.

• INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION income £8.9m
• CANAL & RIVER TRUST income £232.6m
• THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £816k
• THE CHESTERFIELD CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.0m
• CanalAbility income £305k
• FRIENDS OF THE CROMFORD CANAL income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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