Tony Hales CBE, who formally stepped down after 10 years as chair of British Waterways and then the Canal & River Trust, reflected on a decade of extraordinary change over the past decade.
“We do something special, we do something that is fun, and it has been a real privilege to play a tiny part, together with so many of you - colleagues and friends, in the development of something as beautiful and with such potential as our waterways.” Tony Hales
Key results
Chief executive, Richard Parry, gave an update on the Trust's key results from the past financial year, before introducing Tony's successor as chair, Allan Leighton. Three of our waterway partnership chairs gave presentations on their work to develop projects and connections with local communities and this was followed by a lively Q&A session covering topics as diverse as mooring enforcement, canal etiquette and the proposed transfer of the EA navigations to the Trust.
You can read more about Tony Hales in our 2015 Annual Report
