HUDDERSFIELD CANAL SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 510201 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity was set up to oversee the restoration and reconstruction of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and Broad Canal for the use of the public. The Charity now exists to promote preserve maintain and improve the canal.

Objects

THE RESTORATION, RE-CONSTRUCTION, PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL FROM ASPLEY TO ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND THE HUDDERSFIELD BROAD CANAL FROM COOPER BRIDGE TO ASPLEY.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £24,390 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a significant investment gain of £23,384. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £359,948, which the trustees consider more than adequate to meet their policy of retaining necessary reserves to fulfil objectives. The charity maintains adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no funds in deficit.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN LESLIE STOPHERchair
• Anne Goggin
• KEITH SYKES
• MARTIN JOSEPH CLARK · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL HARRY MCHUGH
• Nicholas John Lever
• PATRICIA RITA BAYLEY
• TREVOR ELLIS

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

Operates in: Kirklees · Oldham · Tameside

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).