THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 265331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Wey & Arun Canal Trust

To restore the Wey & Arun Canal, its towpaths, structures and adjacent land and facilitate its use for navigation and recreation; to conserve and improve the natural environment of the Canal and adjacent land; and to provide education and share information about the Canal, its structures and its history

Objects

For the purposes of these Objects ‘the Wey & Arun Canal’ means a waterway from the Wey Navigation in the vicinity of Gun’s Mouth, Shalford, Surrey to the River Arun in the vicinity of Pallingham, West Sussex, including, but not limited to, the abandoned but partially restored Wey & Arun Junction Canal and Arun Navigation,The Objects are, for the public benefit:4.1 to promote and facilitate the restoration, preservation, conservation, protection, improvement, construction, use, and maintenance in good order, of the Wey & Arun Canal and its associated watercourses, towpaths, structures, buildings, other works and adjacent land;4.2 to promote, facilitate and provide facilities for the use of the Wey & Arun Canal including the use of the Wey & Arun Canal for navigation and recreation;4.3 to preserve, conserve and improve the natural environment of the Wey & Arun Canal and adjacent land and provide education and share information about it; and4.4 to protect, conserve, research, and provide education and share information about:(a) the heritage associated with, and(b) structures, objects and sites of archaeological, architectural, engineering or historical interest of, or associated with,the Wey & Arun Canal.

Area of benefit: THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL IN SURREY AND SUSSEX

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £220,856 for the year, resulting in total net assets of £1,735,326. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £429,747 are comfortably in excess of the stated policy target of £75,000 to £150,000. The filing confirms the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01094232
• Trading subsidiary: W & A ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03039168

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.

• AKERS, Mark David — director, appointed 20/01/2026on trustee list
• POWELL, Gordon John — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• NICHOLSON, William Lambton — director, appointed 25/05/2020on trustee list
• EYRE, Giles Stephen — director, appointed 25/05/2020on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, John — director, appointed 21/04/2018on trustee list
• COLES, Anthony Richard — director, appointed 14/05/2015on trustee list
• DARVILL, Margaret Rhoda — director, appointed 27/08/2013on trustee list
• FORD, Anthony — director, appointed 14/07/2013on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Alan — directoron trustee list
• EYRE, Giles Stephen — secretary, appointed 07/07/2020

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN JOHNSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Ford
• Anthony Richard Coles
• Giles Stephen Eyre
• Gordon Powell
• John Reynolds · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Darvill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark David Akers
• William Lambton Nicholson

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

Operates in: Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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