What we have achieved during 2010/2011
Over the past year, we secured over £1.25 million (including £630,700 in Scotland) and a further £1 million in new pledges (including £490,600 in Scotland) for projects based along our canals and rivers. Since we started working in 1999, we have now raised over £15 million (including nearly £7 million in Scotland).
We delivered projects across the UK, working with 450 volunteers. Over the past two years, 1095 young people have taken part in our flagship projects Waterways Action Squad in north-west England and Green Action in Scotland.
Environment & heritage
We believe in protecting, conserving and enhancing our waterside environment and history.
Improved health
Our canals and rivers offer a wealth of free and accessible ways for people to improve their health and well-being.
Stronger communities
We are using waterway-based arts, activity, environmental and education projects to bring communities together.
Improved learning
Our canals and rivers offer amazing learning opportunities for people of all ages.
Regeneration
Our canals and rivers provide a focal point for an area. Restored or enhanced, they can help bring communities together.
Finances
Our income and expenditure for 2010/11, and funders and donors who make our work possible.
And what for the future?
We are entering an exciting new phase as we move forward with our plans to merge our work in England and Wales with the new Canal & River Trust, creating a unique new national charity.
Since our inception in 1999, we have seen much success in a number of important areas including fundraising, building partnerships and attracting and working with volunteers. We are looking forward to building on these successes as part of the Canal & River Trust.
In Scotland, where waterways will remain in public ownership, The Waterways Trust Scotland will continue its valuable work, extending our reach and influence and enabling even more people to benefit from our community, health, environmental and educational projects across the Scottish canal network.
Environment & Heritage
We believe in protecting, conserving and enhancing our waterside environment and history. Together with our partners we are improving our canals and rivers for wildlife and enabling more people to enjoy and learn from our important waterway heritage.
- We are working with Westminster City Council, English Heritage and British Waterways to develop a bid to reinstate a bridge designed by Brunel across the Paddington Branch of the Grand Union Canal in London.
- Our annual wildlife appeal raised £18,000 to help undertake vital management work on waterside woodlands. Twelve projects along the upper reaches of the River Thames also benefited from £22,610 in grants from our Thames Appeal.
- Through the Heritage Boatyard, we are continuing to restore the historic collection. With support from Kraft Foods, we have been able to restore and repaint historic narrowboat Mendip. Extensive repair work has also been undertaken on Marlyn, a harbour launch or ‘gig boat’. Read & Watch more at Mendip on BBC News
- People in Northamptonshire voted Stoke Bruerne’s Canal Museum the winner of Northamptonshire Heritage Awards’ People’s Choice category for the second year running.
- We secured £55,900 from the People’s Millions Lottery to create a heritage trail and upgrade the towpath alongside the Cotswold Canals.
- We raised £10,000 from Community Wildlife to improve the environment surrounding the Stroudwater Canal. The funding has also helped to create pond dipping platforms which can also be used as angling points for people using wheelchairs.
- Waterways Action Squad volunteers took part in a wide range of environmental improvement projects, making a difference to canals across the North West, including: working with Lancashire Wildlife Trust to repair a 2 mile stretch of dry-stone wall along the Leeds / Liverpool Canal in Rishton, laying 2 miles of hedge along the Shropshire Union Canal, completing a 6 week programme to transform a garden in Litherland into a wildflower and wildlife haven, invasive species ID training, hedge-laying at Todmorden, creating a wildlife garden at Standedge Visitors Centre, tree-planting in Maghull, conservation activities in Agecroft and woodland management activities at Freemans Copse.
- We worked with volunteers in Stroud to plant 100 trees donated by the Royal Horticultural Society alongside the Cotswold Canals.
- Together with Re-Union and British Waterways Scotland, we launched a new waterway discovery project, Blue Motion, in July. We are working with three Edinburgh schools, staff from SiEMENS and community groups to help them learn about, enjoy and care for the Union Canal in Edinburgh. We secured funding from Scottish Natural Heritage for the initiative.
- We worked with 60 school children to make bird boxes at an event to mark the unveiling of new artwork at Sikeside on the Monkland Canal.
"I never realised how tough finding work would be. The people at Green Action have been a massive help. They've taught me what it takes to be a success and how to go about things in the right way."
Bob Goodsir, Green Action volunteer, now employed.
Green Action is our waterway-based environmental and tourism training programme in Falkirk and North Lanarkshire. We provide young volunteers aged 16-24 who are not in employment, education or training with the opportunity to develop new skills, gain valuable work experience and qualifications.
Antony, Green Action volunteer
Antony was one of Green Action’s first volunteers in October 2009. During the twelve-week long programme, Antony helped create an outdoor classroom in the grounds of the Action Outdoors Centre in Falkirk.
He returned to volunteer with the programme in 2010. During this spell, he built a wooden stairway at the centre and helped construct a path at The Falkirk Wheel.
The experience enabled Antony to get a placement with BTCV Scotland as a Volunteer Officer.
“It’s great to be invited to be a Volunteer Officer for BTCV and help other people. I’m really grateful for the chance and my mum is dead chuffed! As for the future, I’d like to get a job doing this kind of work full-time. I’ve done a lot with Green Action and I’ll be able to put my new role on my CV too which will help.”
Friends of Rochdale Canal (Far right - Jane Chadfield).
Jane Chadfield
Friends of Rochdale Canal volunteer
I have been involved with the Friends of Rochdale Canal for four years, for the last eighteen months as the Secretary. I had been a very passionate community activist around Newton Heath for a long time before this, but was asked to get involved with a canal tidy up and everything mushroomed from there.
I walked into Manchester along the canal regularly with my husband and we were disappointed by the litter and poor state of it, as we could see the potential and were both interested in nature and biodiversity. I am a firm believer in action rather than words and so was keen to get stuck in to change this.
We have worked hard over the years but have seen improvements starting to take place and lots of agencies and people start to get involved.
We were instrumental in getting the Canal Connections – East Manchester project up and running with The Waterways Trust. The project will bring about practical habitat improvements and towpath tidying and give local people opportunities for getting out and enjoying the canal and starting to value it as central nature resource.
I think that that projects like this bring people together, improve the environment and are a focus for galvanising communities.
2,300
People got involved with events & activities at Rochdale Canal festival this year
We are using our waterways heritage to encourage people living in Burnley to develop a sense of pride in their community.
Through our work with schools, community groups and individual volunteers, residents of the town are discovering the importance and historical value of the canal and a new Burnley Canal Festival and QR Tag Canal Trail will enable people to celebrate this rich heritage.
This two-year long project is helping to create a sense of ownership of the waterway. Our Active Volunteers are improving the canal-side environment by clearing litter, repairing the towpath and managing vegetation. To help ensure the sustainability of the project, we are also recruiting Canal Keepers to care for short stretches of the waterway on their doorstep.
Our new Caledonian Canal Officer is helping people in the Highlands explore the natural environment and heritage of the waterway and get involved in volunteering opportunities along the canal. A series of ‘Bat Surveys’ have already got people out exploring the canal. During August and September, intrepid wildlife lovers ventured out along the Caledonian Canal on a mission to record evidence of bats.
We secured funding for the post from the Heritage Lottery Fund, British Waterways Scotland, the European Community Highland LEADER 2007-2013 Programme and Highland Council, and work with the Great Glenway Ranger Service and Forestry Commission Scotland.
Improved Health
Whether it is walking or cycling along the towpath or canoeing on the water, our canals and rivers offer a wealth of free and accessible ways for people to improve their health and well-being. By working with others, we are helping more people make the most of these opportunities.
- We are working with our partners to enable people living in Calderdale, Rochdale, Oldham and Manchester experience a variety of healthy activities. From canoe taster sessions to guided bike rides along the new Connect2 cycle route; Tai-Chi to geocoaching, the fifth Rochdale Canal Festival highlighted the many different ways that our waterways can help people improve their lifestyle.
- At the National Waterways Museum, our activity partner Let’s Go Adventure uses the museum’s basin to give schools and groups the opportunity to try their hand at kayaking, canoeing and bell boating.
- We are working with our partners on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow and representatives of different paddlesports organisations to establish a new and exciting white water paddlesports centre at Port Dundas. As well as developing the funding strategy we are helping to raise the £2.2million needed to make this exciting project a reality.
- Since it opened, over 6,500 children and young people have enjoyed canoeing, cycling and walking activities at our Action Outdoors learning centre on the Union Canal in Falkirk.
People living in Bordesley and Sparkhill in east Birmingham are discovering the Birmingham Heartlands Canal Ring through our ladies cycling and walking programmes. Many have never before ventured to the canal, which passes through the heart of their community.
Yasmin Bi, 42, has been walking in the area following advice from her doctor. A friend introduced her to the Ladies Walks.
“I didn’t know we had canals close to where I live. I like walking along them because they offer privacy.”
As well as improving her health, Yasmin has been learning about the canal.
“I have learnt that the canals are really old. They were used to carry things like spices from Pakistan. I have learned that canals are free to use and are for everyone. I have been back to the canals with my daughters and have walked along the towpath all the way to town. I enjoy walking along the canal in the summer with my friends and family.”
The Heartlands canal ring runs directly through the city centre of Birmingham
We raised £28,000 from People’s Postcode Lottery, Scottish Natural Heritage and a major private donor to run a further four Feet First programmes in Falkirk, North Lanarkshire and Edinburgh. We have been running this educational walking programme for school groups and the local community since 2006. On the walks, people learn about the canal, the heritage and the natural environment of the area.
Working with Forestry Commission Scotland, with funding from Awards for All Scotland, we have started a walking and forest skills programme to help people with long-term health conditions improve their health and well-being.
The walks include practical activities such as creating wildlife habitats, carrying out surveys of wildlife, identifying trees, vegetation control and learning forest arts & crafts.
By caring for and improving the canal and forest areas, more people will be encouraged to use their local environment for exercise and leisure.
Through this project we are enabling sedentary people to increase their levels of physical activity, meet new people, increase their self-confidence, mental health and well-being whilst also developing transferable skills and increase their ability to return to employment, training or volunteering.
Stronger Communities
Working in partnership with others, we are using waterway-based arts, activity, environmental and education projects to bring communities together, creating a sense of pride and ownership in their local area.
- The second phase of Waterways Action Squad involves 16 to 19 year olds who are not in education, employment or training in six month volunteering and social action projects within The Waterways Trust and British Waterways. Project 24:24 is funded by the Department for Education with delivery led by v. Over the next two years, three cohorts of five young people will volunteer for 24 hours a week for 24 weeks. The project will run until February 2013 and the first group of volunteers are based at the National Waterways Museum.
- Together with our partners, we launched a new project in Birmingham to transform the Heartlands Canal Ring into a dynamic community resource, used and valued by local residents.
- The National Waterways Museum is involved with a number of community-focussed initiatives. Our Youth Activity Centre brings young people together through a range of activities including drama, fishing, media workshops and skippering a narrowboat. The successful coffee and crochet group now has more than 60 members and has expanded to include a sewing group. The dedication of the volunteers who run the group was recognised at the 2011 Waterways Renaissance Awards where the project won the Education & Learning category.
- New volunteer partnerships at the National Waterways Museum and Gloucester Waterways Museum have seen the number of volunteers at each museum site increase dramatically. More than 50 volunteers help operate Gloucester Waterways Museum helping to ensure its future viability and at the National Waterways Museum, more than 140 volunteers are now involved in all areas of the museum’s day-to-day activities.
- We helped organise the second Monkland Canal Festival which saw 1,300 people enjoy a range of water-based activities at Summerlee Heritage Museum, near Coatbridge.
- Together with our partners we helped residents in Calders, near Edinburgh, establish a community garden and orchard, creating an inviting gateway to the Union Canal. The community has developed a range of new skills and regularly come together to maintain the garden and canalside environment.
- Our project to help people in Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire discover, enjoy and care for Forth & Clyde Canal concluded in December 2010. Our Community Canal Liaison Officer post was funded by Scottish Natural Heritage, Heritage Lottery Fund, Glasgow City Council, British Waterways Scotland, West Dunbartonshire Council and ISIS Waterside Regeneration. From wildlife safaris to walking groups, towpath tidies to learning how to build wooden boats, more than 8,000 people have had their eyes opened as to the potential of the canal. These projects have increased usage of the waterway and engendered a sense of pride and ownership. We have successfully secured further funding to continue the post in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire until December 2012.
- We are working with the Lowland Canals Volunteering Group to create a shared vision of how Scotland's lowland waterways could look in ten years’ time and beyond. By working together, we will enable more people to get involved with the Lowland Canals through a range of community engagement and volunteering opportunities.
Our two-year long youth volunteering project, Waterways Action Squad, concluded in June. More than 960 young people aged 16-25 have taken part in a range of volunteer opportunities along our waterways over the past two years.
Candice, 21 - Action Squad Volunteer
Following a car crash six years ago, Candice was left with a serious brain injury which affected her short-term memory. Due to difficulty in retaining information, Candice was unable to work and suffered low self-esteem and confidence.
Candice joined Waterways Action Squad in the team’s office, learning admin and computer skills. The opportunity enabled her to develop new techniques for remembering and doing things.
During her time volunteering, Candice gained a Level 2 NVQ in Business Administration – something she felt she would never have achieved without the opportunities that Waterways Action Squad gave her.
Candice is now working at front of house for the National Waterways Museum, a testament to how much her confidence and self-esteem has grown since she joined Waterways Action Squad.
“Doing front of house stuff has boosted me as well because I have been able to meet customers. I’ve helped out in the café as well. I’m really happy now I’m here doing this job.”
Allen, 25 - Action Squad Volunteer
Allen responded to a Waterways Action Squad advert asking for people to paint a mural alongside the Shropshire Union Canal.
Allen worked with eight other young volunteers to design and paint a mural on the side of one of the bridges across the canal in Ellesmere Port.
As a result of the success of the project, Allen was asked to lead a second project in Bootle. He also joined in with some practical conservation tasks.
During his time with Waterways Action Squad, Allen gained a v50 award for clocking up over 50 hours of volunteering on the programme. As well as using his experiences with WAS to expand his CV Allen has been able to draw on his volunteering on the programme to use as evidence to support his PGCE course.
“I always mention my volunteering. At the moment I am putting together my Q Standards file for my PGCE and there are quite a few things that I can use the WAS stuff for and the v50 award.”
“It was great to work with so many different types of people. I loved everyone I met there and everything I did I got a buzz from.”
“It was great to work with so many different types of people. I loved everyone I met there and everything I did I got a buzz from.”
Allen, Action Squad Volunteer
The Rochdale Canal, from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester
We are working with communities along the length of the Rochdale Canal from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester to discover, use and care for the historic waterway.
Over two weeks in August, more than 3,000 people came together to discover what the waterway had to offer.
Fifty different events and activities entertained, educated, motivated and inspired communities along the length of the canal - from a lantern parade in Calderdale to a masquerade in Mytholmroyd, underground walks in Manchester to Tai Chi sessions in Oldham.
“I enjoyed watching all the children from the community having fun.”
An observer at Newton Heath canoeing session.
Over the past three years we have worked with communities in Croy and Kilsyth to create a sensory garden and nature trail at Auchinstarry Basin on the Forth & Clyde Canal. Over 100 school children, volunteers from the local community and apprentices from Twechar Environmental Project have worked together to transform the site into a welcome destination for everyone to enjoy. We have also helped establish a ‘Friends of Auchinstarry’ group to ensure the future sustainability of the project.
Improved learning
Our canals and rivers offer amazing learning opportunities for people of all ages. Together with our partners, we are using our waterways and museums to help people develop new skills and interests, improve their employment prospects and grow in confidence.
- We worked with West Cheshire College to run eleven different adult learning courses, including watercolours, sketching and photography. We also provided valuable work experience for the college’s painting & decorating students.
- We developed a series of curriculum linked courses, benefiting more than 3,200 pupils.
- We enabled over 100 young people to take part in arts, drama, environmental and water-based activity projects through our Youth Activity Centre.
- We worked with Connexions to deliver a range of activities for young people aboard our new youth activity boat.
- Our Victoria Arm Dry Dock project at our Heritage Boatyard was named 2011 Haven Academy Winner for Boat Conservation.
- At the Canal Museum in Stoke Bruenre, we worked with art students from Lodge Park School, Corby to transform a non-descript room at the museum into a colourful and inspiring educational facility.
- With our partners, we are creating four new interpretation installations for the Rochdale Canal in Calderdale. These information points will tell canal visitors more about the canal’s history and encourage them to explore it further.
- In Burnley, we launched a new two-year long project to help local people to learn more about and care for their canal through volunteering, arts and heritage projects.
- Our Waterways Action Squad volunteers also gained a wide range of awards and accreditation including; vAwards, certificates in Emergency First Aid, Water Safety, John Muir Awards, NCFE accredited Introduction to Environmental Conservation, AQA in dry-stone walling, NVQs in Business Administration and IT.
- More than 560 people have improved their knowledge and understanding of local canal wildlife through our Canal Connections East Manchester project.
- We launched a new walking programme in Edinburgh. Splash introduces walkers to the importance of water safety and the heritage and wildlife of the Lowland Canals and around The Falkirk Wheel.
- Together with Cumbernauld College we established the Vital Spark Project, a series of historical walks along the Forth & Clyde Canal for the local community. Using their newfound knowledge, the young people worked with a professional artist to create unique orientation and interpretation panels for the canal, depicting the heritage of the Kelvin Valley.
- We helped 84 young people not in employment, education or training develop environmental management and tourism skills through our waterways-based Green Action project.
- We enabled children from two primary schools in Edinburgh to work with a professional artist to design three sculptural tree guards as part of plans to revitalise Harrison Park East alongside the Union Canal. The tree guards include words about the canal, wildlife, cycling and health in over 20 languages.
Together with National Historic Ships, we launched our new ‘Keeping History Afloat’ project at the Heritage Boatyard. This £126k initiative is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund's 'Skills for the Future' programme. Three new trainees have joined the Boatyard for 18 months. As well as learning how to restore heritage canal boats, the trainees are undertaking placements at specialist boatyards across the country to further develop their practical skills and knowledge.
Huw, 26 from Rock Ferry (Wirral)
“I really like boats and have my own gig boat. ‘Keeping History Afloat’ seemed an excellent way to develop my skills and get more closely involved on heritage boats. It is important to look after our waterways heritage, by maintaining our traditional boats we provide an important link to the past and our ancestors.
“The best thing is getting paid and trained at the same time, while looking after boats with such important histories. I am developing my practical skills and getting lots of experience of working on different types of boat from what I have been used to. It will really help me get a job in boat building in the future.”
Andy, 23 from Birkenhead
“I have real passion for boats and saw ‘Keeping History Afloat’ as a great way to get back in this world. Old boats show us how people used to get themselves around, it is really important that we learn from the techniques used in the past.
“I’m learning new practical skills and building on my existing carpentry skills. These skills will certainly help me in getting job in a boatyard in the future.”
Mark, 19 from Lowestoft
“Historic boats teach us how boats were built in the past, from that we can understand how to build boats now. I did an NVQ in traditional boat building at International Boatbuilding Training College ‘Keeping History Afloat’ sounded like an excellent chance to develop these skills.
“I’m learning new practical skills and getting the chance to visit other boat building yards and organisations. This will all help me find and get a job in a boat building yard when I’m finished.”
We raised £370,000 to create a mini-canal and educational water play area at The Falkirk Wheel. The new water park enables children to have fun whilst learning how to source and move water.
With a range of hands-on, push and pull buttons and winders, visitors can launch a mini boat, open glass fronted canal locks and move water uphill with an ‘Archimedes Screw’.
A miniature Falkirk Wheel shows how the rotating boat-lift works and a pedal bike sucks up water for irrigation. This was designed by mechanical engineering students at the University of Strathclyde as part of a project to create water collection technology to assist communities in Malawi.
There is also an outdoor classroom space adjacent to the water park.
Over the past three years, our Canal Community Liaison Officer, Steven Cole, has been using waterways to bring learning to life for young people across Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire, he has now extended his work to include North Lanarkshire.
Water safaris
Over 400 children took part in this year’s Wildlife Safari and Heritage Hunt Boat trips along the Glasgow Branch of the Forth & Clyde Canal. Young people were able to learn about the industry that used to exist along the canal, take part in the British Waterways wildlife survey and had the chance to delve into the canal handling kit. The children used their experiences to draw pictures which were then used to make bunting for the Forth & Clyde Canal 10 celebrations.
Discovering canal beasties
Away from school, 500 children have discovered more about the beasties that live in the canal at numerous events that Steven has run over the year, including Bats, Beastie and Buried Treasure at the Claypits, Possil, Wild in the City events run by Glasgow City Council Countryside Ranger Service, and the Monkland Canal festival at Summerlee.
At these events children could also play the Forth & Clyde Canal game. This Game was research, designed and produced, by young people on the Impact Arts Challenge Us project, and has been well used at schools and events.
Steven has also helped a further 180 pupils achieve their John Muir Award.
Staying safe by the water
This year, 550 primary school children from Glasgow have learnt how to Stay SAFE when visiting the Forth & Clyde Canal through Steven’s water safety sessions. Part of the Healthy Transitions programme organised by Glasgow Life, the sessions also included the history about the canal and an explanation of how locks work. Steven used the Water Safety Box produced by the Wild Over Waterways team to help the children discuss what they should do in an emergency, how to respect the environment and other canal users and ensure they get the most of their visit and return home safely.
Regeneration
Our canals and rivers provide a focal point for an area. Restored or enhanced, they can help bring communities together. We are working with our partners to promote and improve our waterways and transform them into valuable spaces for people and wildlife.
- Together with our partners, we are developing plans and a funding bid for Phase 1b of the Cotswold Canals. The plans include restoring Walk Bridge to navigation, taking the canal under the A38 and M5 and restoring the canal’s path under the railway.
- The eleven categories of the 2011 Waterways Renaissance Awards saw recognition given to a diverse range of projects from across the UK, from an innovative engineering and construction scheme in the Olympic Park to a pioneering environmental initiative on Merseyside.
- By developing a broad mix of events and activities at our three waterways museums, we are helping to attract visitors to Ellesmere Port, Gloucester and Stoke Bruerne. The number of people visiting the National Waterways Museum has increased by 20% over the past year.
- We are working with a range of local authorities, charities and voluntary groups in towns and cities including Birmingham, Oxford, Burnley and Leicester to support the development of waterways as part of wider regeneration and neighbourhood initiatives.
- The Dalriada Project was completed in March. It has helped to conserve and enhance the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Dalriada landscape in Argyll by delivering 10 related projects across the area, including woodland management, habitat creation for black grouse, archaeological surveys and excavations and provided innovative interpretation and improved access to the area’s heritage. The project reached the semi-finals of the National Lottery Awards, it also won the Environment & Heritage Waterway Renaissance Award and was named Runner-up in the Recreation & Tourism category.
- We are working with the Helix Trust to raise funds for the transformation of a 300-hectare site of unused land between Falkirk and Grangemouth into the Helix, a superb, vibrant new visitor attraction. The Helix includes creating a 1.85 kilometre canal link linking Grangemouth on the River Forth into Scotland’s canal network and two 30 metre ‘Kelpie’ horse heads for the entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal. We have already raised £500,000 towards the Helix Central Park and Lagoon from Avondale Environmental through the Landfill Communities Fund.
This year, we set out our 10 year development strategy for the National Waterways Museum. It is our ambition for the museum to become the premier national centre for Britain’s waterway heritage.
Over the coming decade we will work with our partners to realise this vision. It is our aim that by 2020 the museum will be...
- recognised as the leading Waterways Museum in the UK
- a high quality centre for those wishing to enjoy, study and experience the waterways, their history, boats, people, buildings and artefacts
- a major focus to enable young people to develop through experiencing the waterways
- a well-loved local facility for people where they can relax, learn and develop
- an exemplar of a forward-looking partnership of volunteers, staff, agencies and companies
- a nationally important visitor destination
The restored Droitwich Canals opened this year. As part of the Droitwich Canals Restoration Partnership, we raised £476,000 towards this £11 million programme and delivered eight projects to involve the local community in the restoration including:
- Restoring Barge Lock in Vines Park, which joins the Barge Canal with the Junction Canal
- Salt to Severn environmental trail
- Hanbury Locks play area
- Wych Barge interpretation point
- Netherwich Tunnel arts installation
- Creation of new reedbed
- Community mind map and play
Working with the Monkland Canal Steering Group, we have raised £400,000 to help transform the Monkland Canal corridor. This year, four projects at strategic locations along the canal have been completed:
- At Blair Bridge we worked with renowned sculptor Andy Scott and local school children to develop a fantastic new archway to form a new gateway to the canal. Landscaping works also helped to create an inviting and high quality environment which will encourage more people to use this stretch of the canal.
- At Drumpellier we have worked with local school children and artists to install a viewing platform together with artistic railings, designed by the children, revitalising this once neglected area. People now have a reason to visit this place and can stop and enjoy the tranquillity of the canal and admire the new artwork.
- We have involved pupils at Sikeside and Calderbank in projects to design new entranceways to the canal at these locations. This work has helped raise the profile of the canal and make it a welcoming and inviting place to explore.
- We have also secured funding for a new footbridge at Calderbank to link the canal corridor to the wider access network.
Funders & Supporters (for financial year 2010/11)
The Waterways Trust would like to thank the many individuals and organisations whose time and support has made our work possible.
- Bank of America
- Big Lottery Fund – Access to Nature
- Big Lottery Fund – Community Wildlife
- Boat Museum Society
- Bolton Council
- British Waterways
- Calderdale Council
- Cheshire West & Chester Council
- Connexions
- DCMS Wolfson
- Ellesmere Port Education Improvement Partnership
- Environment Agency
- Friends of Gloucester Waterways Museum
- Friends of the Canal Museum
- Future Jobs Fun
- Gloucester City Council
- Gloucestershire Environmental Trust
- Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust
- Heritage Lottery Fund – Mighty Creatives
- Heritage Lottery Fund – Skills for the Future
- Heritage Lottery Fund – Young Roots
- Inland Waterways Association
- James Brindley Society
- Kendal Town Council
- Kaiser Trust
- Lancaster Canal Trust
- MLA Renaissance North West
- MLA Renaissance Innovation Fund
- Oldham Borough Council
- Oxford City Council
- Rochdale Municipal Borough Council
- South Cumbria District Council
- South Pennine Leader
- The John Ellerman Foundation
- Todmorden Town Council
- U-Project
- Urenco
- v
- Westminster City Council
- Wild in Art
- Avondale Environmental – Landfill Communities Fund
- Big Lottery Fund – Active Futures
- Braes Social Club
- British Waterways Scotland
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Dalmuir Park Housing Association
- Energy Saving Trust
- Falkirk Council
- Forestry Commission Scotland
- Forestry Commission Scotland – Forestry Challenge (F4P)
- Glasgow City Council
- Heritage Lottery Fund – Your Heritage
- ISIS
- Kelvin Valley Leader Programme
- Linkwide – Scottish Government Wider Role
- Maryhill Housing Association
- North Lanarkshire Council
- Peoples Postcode Trust
- Private Donor
- Queens Cross Housing Association Ltd
- Rank Foundation
- Robertson Trust
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Tay Charitable Trust
- Voluntary Action Fund
A full version of our Annual Report & Accounts is available on-line at www.thewaterwaystrust.org.uk or by calling 01432 318220.