THE MONTGOMERY WATERWAY RESTORATION TRUST

Registered charity 510448 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the restoration of the Montgomery Canal from Welsh Frankton in the County of Salop to Newtown in the County of Powys

Objects

FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PROMOTE THE RESTORATION TO GOOD AND NAVIGABLE ORDER AND CONDITION OF THE MONTGOMERY ARM OF THE SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL RUNNING FROM WELSH FRANKTON IN THE COUNTY OF SALOP TO NEWTOWN IN THE COUNTY OF POWYS AND ANY BRANCHES THEREOF.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total net liabilities of £112,309 for the year ending 31 October 2024, a significant deterioration from the net assets of £863,079 in the prior year. The organization is classified as a small company and is exempt from audit, relying instead on an independent examination. No specific reserves policy or fundraising cost ratios are disclosed in the provided text.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Stuart LIMBREYchair
• Ambereene Hitchcox · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christine Elizabeth Palin
• NICHOLAS STEPHEN GODFREY BOSTOCK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Philippa Mary Bursey
• ROBERT ARNOLD DEWEY
• STEPHEN GRAHAM CLEWS · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Powys · Shropshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MONMOUTHSHIRE, BRECON AND ABERGAVENNY CANALS TRUST LIMITED.

• MONMOUTHSHIRE, BRECON AND ABERGAVENNY CANALS TRUST LIMITED income £148k
• THE SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £190k
• THE CHESTERFIELD CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.0m
• THE WEY AND ARUN CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £816k
• WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST income £884k
• HEREFORDSHIRE AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE CANAL TRUST LIMITED income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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