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Trustees' Annual Report and Accounts 2013/14 Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts 2013/14 “ My local canal is more than just a source of inspiration for my books; it’s a very special place for moments of contemplation or to simply watch the world go by.” – Penny Smith, author & TV presenter 1 2 5 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 These photos are just a selection of 3,000 wonderful images entered into our national photography competition this year. Image captions 1 Cromford Canal 2 Birmingham Canal Navigations 3 Trent & Mersey Canal 4 Calder & Hebble Navigation 5 Rochdale Canal 6 River Trent 7 Stratford Canal Stockton 8 Grand Union Canal on Tees 9 Trent & Mersey Canal 10 North Oxford Canal Kendal 11 Droitwich Canal 12 Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal Ripon Lancaster Skipton Bingley Preston Burnley York Ribble for 3 & 5 rise Blackburn Link Leeds Sowerby Selby Bridge Goole Rochdale Castleford Burscough Wakefield Wigan Bolton Bury Huddersfield Keadby Standedge Salford Tunnel Doncaster Liverpool Quays Rotherham Manchester Sheffield Runcorn Chesterfield Worksop Gainsborough Marple Anderton Bugsworth Boat Lift Basin Macclesfield Cromford Newark Northwich Congleton Ellesmere Port Heanor Lincoln Long Eaton Chester Kidsgrove Middlewich Grantham National Waterways Museum Stoke on Trent Nottingham on TrentBurton Nantwich Sawley Boston Market Llangollen Shrewsbury Drayton Stafford Tamworth Loughborough Ellesmere Ashby Leicester PontcysyllteAqueduct Wolverhampton Welshpool North West Waterway Stourbridge Market Harborough North East Waterway Newtown Kidderminster Welford Manchester & Pennine Waterway Atherstone Birmingham North Wales & Borders Waterway Rugby Coventry Central Shires Waterway to the Broads & Warwick Norton Junction Fens waterways East Midlands Waterway Stourport West Midlands Waterway on Severn South East Waterway StratfordRoyal Northampton South Wales & Severn Waterway upon Avon Leamington Spa Kennet & Avon Waterway Bromsgrove Droitwich Spa London Waterway Banbury non-Trust waterways coastal gateways Milton KeynesBedford Stoke Bruerne non or partly navigable waterways are indicated by a dashed line* Worcester The Canal Museum Hereford Bishop’s Aylesbury Stortford Leighton Hertford Oxford Buzzard Brecon Gloucester Harlow Waterways Museum Cricklade Hemel Hempstead Stroud Wendover Sharpness London Swindon Pontypool Watford Slough Swansea Brentford Bath Bristol Pewsey Reading Bradford Melksham Newbury upon Avon Bridgwater Taunton Godalming * Details of these and other waterway restoration projects can be found at canalrivertrust.org.uk/restoration Contents Above: Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal Note: Interactive links in text are underlined Welcome from our Chairman 2 Overview from our Chief Executive 3 Trustees’ Report (incorporating Companies Act 2006 Strategic Report requirements) How the Trust works 4 Strategic Report: Overview of 2013/14 6 Financial summary 8 Highlights from our year 10 Spring 13 Canal & River Trust Annual Report 2013/14 Canal & River Trust Summer 19 Autumn 25 Winter 31 Glandwˆr Cymru – the Canal & River Trust in Wales 36 Our plans for the future 38 Finance review 40 Governance 56 Auditor’s report 68 Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2014 69 Trustees, Council, Waterways Partnership and Advisory Group Members 110 Gifts and donations 114 Trustees’ Report & Accounts Welcome from our Chairman The past year has been one of Volunteering, which has long traditions in the restoration movement and in the waterways in general, has blossomed considerable progress for the Trust since the formation of the Trust. This has included individuals, on many fronts. Establishing a new local associations and companies, examples such as Marks & Spencer, Foxton Scouts, the Cheshire Autism Society trust is challenging and, as with and many others. They inspire us all and, increasingly, we many households, resources have see volunteers working alongside staff and contractors in a seamless way. Any organisation and activity must attract new been tight. We have therefore sought blood to survive and remain relevant, and this is the motivation to be imaginative in how we care for behind a number of new initiatives. One which I am particularly excited about, is our ‘Explorers’ Education Volunteers, who and manage our waterways. have engaged nearly 27,500 school children this year alone. Living waterways require a great deal of maintenance and One of the really exciting changes has been the way so many consistent investment, some of which is often hidden out new people are now involved in running and helping the Trust. of sight under the ground or below the waterline. Our teams This has been refreshing, challenging and stimulating, and have had to contend with water shortage and deluge over is helping us become a much more open and welcoming Canal & River Trust Annual Report 2013/14 Canal & River Trust the last 12 months – both of which have damaged our old organisation. This new way of working poses new challenges and fragile infrastructure. Prompt action has mitigated bigger for our people, and I am delighted at how they are responding problems, but the persistent winter rain in particular caused to change and thank them for their commitment to the embankments to slip and towpaths to be washed away. waterways and to the Trust. Our new Chief Executive, We have just about held our own this year, but the extreme Richard Parry, has also had a tremendous impact, meeting weather we can expect to face more frequently, adds to the and listening to so many of those who use and care for our maintenance effort needed to secure the standards we all waterways since joining us in July. want for today and for the future. Nowhere is the impact of volunteers felt more strongly Defra funding support will increase in 2015 and the economic than in the work of those who make up our governance recovery should help us with the task of earning our income, and advisory structure, with some 220 Trustees, Council, and of course, we continue to need the financial and volunteer Waterway Partnership and Advisory Group members – all support of many people to help us deliver our vision of living of whom are unpaid volunteers. Their work recognises not waterways that transform places and enrich lives. So a really only the importance of the Trust to navigation, heritage and big thanks to all our employees, volunteers, our growing band environment, but also the varied nature and role of canals of Friends and all our other financial supporters and partners; and rivers in different parts of England and Wales. I am so and to everyone who uses, enjoys and loves the waterways. grateful to everyone involved, for their experience, ideas and connections into so many different communities. Tony Hales CBE 30 June 2014 2 Overview from our Chief Executive My first nine months with the Trust During my first year I have made it a priority to meet with and listen to boaters to understand their priorities for the have been thoroughly engrossing waterways, given the central role they play. Whilst I am and enjoyable. I have relished the committed to strengthening the Trust’s relationship with its partners and customers on the waterways, we also need opportunity to get out and meet the to extend our public engagement to build the broad support people who care for and enjoy the that is so important for our long term sustainable future. In that respect, the winter open days were another important great canal and river network that step forward, bringing nearly 10,000 visitors into the heart of the Trust is responsible for. our repair work to see what we do – to marvel at the history, the engineering prowess of the canals’ construction and the great work that our people and contractors do to keep them My over-riding sense from the many conversations I have had functioning for everyone to enjoy. and places I have been to, is of how far the Trust has come in such a short time, and the opportunity we have to take forward We’ve also re-invigorated our Values to set out how we a new inclusive and collaborative approach to build a sound, do things at the Trust, with a greater emphasis on being sustainable future for our waterways. open and welcoming the involvement of others in our work, recognising that the vast experience, knowledge and passion During the winter we have honed our long term strategy, around us can help us to make better decisions and deliver centred on an inspiring vision of ‘living waterways that better outcomes for all those on the waterways. transform places and enrich lives’, and a clear strategic direction that identifies our ambition for the years ahead. Of course the year has thrown up numerous challenges that With our Waterway Partnerships developing complementary we have had to respond to. Such is the nature of our climate local strategies that link the Trust with the priorities of local that within just a few months, we went from a dry northern authorities, businesses and people in their areas, the Trust’s summer with water shortages on our Pennine canals, to a route to deliver wider social, economic and environmental prolonged spell of extreme bad weather across the south and benefits is progressing well. west that flooded many of our waterways. Our response to the winter storms showed again the dedication of employees, The growth in volunteering is having a major impact on our volunteers and contractors, and the generosity of our canals and rivers, and more profoundly on how we do things. supporters who raised over £32,000 for our flood appeal. I lose count of the number of active community groups that I have met this year, bursting with enthusiasm for what they are In business terms, we had a successful year with income Annual Report 2013/14 Canal & River Trust doing on their local patch, working alongside employees who growing more than we had predicted and additional work share their pride in what they have achieved together. Our being delivered as a result.
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