THE INLAND WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.5m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£151k

Accounts grants total

£157k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Environment/conservation/heritage (4 grantees)
Recreation (3 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Economic/community Development/employment (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

City Of Swansea (1 grantee)
Devon (1 grantee)
Essex (1 grantee)
Neath Port Talbot (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2023	FY2025
new	ESSEX WATERWAYS NAVIGATION TRUST	—	£145k
new	CANAL & RIVER TRUST	—	£3k
new	Litchfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust	—	£3k
new	Leicestershire Search & Rescue	—	£900
not listed	Other grants and donations	£29k	—
not listed	The Rolle Canal & Nothern Devon Waterways Society	£12k	—
not listed	SWANSEA CANAL SOCIETY	£9k	—
not listed	Devon County Council	£6k	—
not listed	THE STOVER CANAL TRUST	£4k	—
not listed	Friends of Exeter Ship Canal	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Essex Waterways Navigation Trust	FY2025	£145k	Donation/Grant to former subsidiary's successor charity
Canal River Trust	FY2025	£3k	Donation
Litchfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust	FY2025	£3k	Donation
Leicestershire Search & Rescue	FY2025	£900	Donation
Other grants and donations	FY2023	£29k
The Rolle Canal & Nothern Devon Waterways Society	FY2023	£12k	Investigate, preserve and explain the heritage Ridd Inclined Plane
Swansea Canal Society	FY2023	£9k	Coed Park Slipway project
Devon County Council	FY2023	£6k	Grand Western Canal
Stover Canal Trust	FY2023	£4k	Relining and rewatering Ventiford Basin
Friends of Exeter Ship Canal	FY2023	£2k	Feasibility study for saving Gabriel’s Wharf
Swansea Canal Society Coed Park Slipway project	FY2022	£15k	Waterways In Progress Fund
Wilts & Berks Canal Trust Shrivenham Canal Park project	FY2022	£13k	Waterways In Progress Fund
Other grants	FY2022	£11k	General
Langport Town Council	FY2022	£2k	General

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 151469 vs reference 156562 (3.3% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.