CANAL MUSEUM TRUST

Registered charity 277484 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON CANAL MUSEUM

To promote public awareness and knowledge of London waterways and to provide educational opportunities for young people at the museum. Also to preserve objects of historical interest for public benefit.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HISTORY AND USE OF INLAND WATERWAYS BY THE PRESERVATION AND DISPLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OBJECTS AND OTHER MATERIAL OF HISTORICAL OR OTHER INTEREST ASSOCIATED WITH INLAND WATERWAYS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £40,078 for the year, with total income rising to £287,680. The trustees report that cumulative unrestricted reserves are very healthy at £460,012, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £75,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence 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

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN SACHchair
• Adam Usher
• Craig Nicholson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Katherine Durrant
• Lorraine Cornish
• MALCOLM TUCKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• TIM LEWIS

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE CHESTERFIELD CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.0m
• THE COTSWOLD CANALS TRUST income £609k
• THE CHICHESTER SHIP CANAL TRUST income £77k
• THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £816k
• THE GRANTHAM CANAL SOCIETY income £79k
• THE TANK MUSEUM LIMITED income £10.8m

Side by side with its peers

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