WILTS & BERKS CANAL TRUST

Registered charity 299595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WILTS & BERKS CANAL AMENITY GROUP, WILTS AND BERKS CANAL AMENITY GROUP

To protect, conserve and improve the route of the Wilts & Berks and North Wilts canals and branches for the benefit of the community and environment.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CONSTRUCTION RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A NAVIGABLE WATERWAY LINKING THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL NEAR TROWBRIDGE WITH THE THAMES AND SEVERN CANAL (OR THE RIVER THAMES) NEAR CRICKLADE AND THE RIVER THAMES AT OR NEAR ABINGDON TO GOOD AND NAVIGABLE ORDER AND TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE WATERWAY FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION THE WATERWAY SHALL INCLUDE THOSE PARTS OF THE ORIGINAL ORIGINAL WILTS AND BERKS AND NORTH WILTS CANALS AND THEIR BRANCHES WHICH FORM PART OF THE NAVIGABLE LINKS AND ALL OTHER WATERWAYS BUILDINGS STRUCTURES AND WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WATERWAY.

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

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £97,512 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £1,034,210. The trustees confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, noting that expenditure commitments are managed to ensure funds are available to meet them. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed pension deficits.

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
• Conflicting interests
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• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wilts & Berks Canal Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

24 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold); recorded price paid £305k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Bryan Rhoades
• BRIAN PETER STOVOLD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Gavin St John-Heath
• John Anderson Nigel Graham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin D Lewis
• Martin Christopher Holliss · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard John Green
• STEPHEN PAUL BACON
• Stuart Cakebread

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire · Swindon · West Berkshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE COTSWOLD CANALS TRUST income £609k
• THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £816k
• THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL SOCIETY income £119k
• LICHFIELD AND HATHERTON CANALS RESTORATION TRUST LIMITED income £411k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL TRUST, LIMITED income £481k

Side by side with its peers

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