THE GRANTHAM CANAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 507337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GRANTHAM CANAL RESTORATION SOCIETY LIMITED

Promotion support and facilitation of the restoration maintenance use and enjoyment of Inland Waterways and in particular the Grantham Canal

Objects

TO ADVOCATE AND PROMOTE THE RESTORATION TO GOOD ORDER AND CONDITION AND THE MAINTENANCE IN GOOD ORDER AND CONDITION OF THE GRANTHAM CANAL.

Area of benefit: GRANTHAM TO NOTTINGHAM

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reports total unrestricted reserves of £270,666 against a stated policy target of holding an annual reserve balance of £10,000. The accounts state that the Society’s position is satisfactory as it is in a position to meet all predictable commitments falling due in the following financial year.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01351149

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Grantham Canal Society (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• GOODY, Anthony Christopher — director, appointed 15/08/2023on trustee list
• GORDON, Roderick Steven — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• GRYLLS, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• OSBOND, Anthony James — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• STONE, Michael Anthony — director, appointed 12/12/2007not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MIKE STONEchair
• Anthony Christopher Goody
• Anthony James Osbond
• Jane Elizabeth Grylls
• Mary Noble
• Roderick Steven Gordon

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWANSEA CANAL SOCIETY.

• SWANSEA CANAL SOCIETY income £749k
• THE CHESTERFIELD CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.0m
• THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £816k
• FRIENDS OF THE CROMFORD CANAL income £113k
• MONMOUTHSHIRE, BRECON AND ABERGAVENNY CANALS TRUST LIMITED income £148k
• THE SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £190k

Side by side with its peers

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