Charitable trusts

This vital funding enables us to embark on new projects, using our waterways and museums as unique spaces that make a difference to people’s lives.

Charitable grants help us to achieve much more so that an increasing number of people can get out there and enjoy all that the waterways have to offer. From education and arts initiatives to projects bringing communities together to enhance heritage sites and protect their local environment.

Recent projects that our trusts and foundations supporters have helped us to bring to fruition have included:

• The Window on the World heritage restoration project
• Our Artist in Residence at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port
• From Birmingham to the Sea redevelopment project at Gloucester Waterways Museum
• Nantwich Aqueduct makeover
• Creating water vole homes on the River Stort
• The Line sculpture walk
• Skills for the Future training scheme 
• Community Roots environmental volunteering programme 

Thank you 

We are hugely appreciative of the support of all our current charitable trusts and foundations supporters, including:

Association for Industrial Archaeology

Baron Davenport’s Charity

Clark Bradbury Charitable Trust

DCMS/Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund

Donald Forrester Trust

Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Hobson Charity Limited

The Leverhulme Trust

Oak Foundation

The Pilgrim Trust

The Radcliffe Trust

Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners Charitable Foundation

Royal Foundation of St Katharine

The Tower Hill Trust

Waynflete Charitable Trust

The Wolfson Foundation

Get in touch

If you think we should be talking to a charitable trust that you are involved in about our work, please consider emailing major.gifts@canalrivertrust.org.uk