Our charity has been funded by three main methods
- Profits from Trading Operations (trip boat Birdswood plus merchandise sales)
- Membership fees
- Ad-hoc donations and legacies
In 2021 we improved the ease of making ad-hoc donations by introducing “Give As You Live” facility – see the DONATE button on this website.
Here’s a selection of recent funders:
- Awards for All
- Nora Smith Settlement
- HDH Wills
- The D’Oyly Carte Ct
- William Dean Countryside and Educational Trust
- M J Camp Charitable Foundation
- Foundation Derbyshire
- Mansfield BS
- Gordon Fraser
- Derbyshire Environmental Trust
- BNA CIO
- Duke of Devonshire
- The Lady Hind Trust
- The Big Give
- The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust
- Marsh (Christian) Charitable trust
- Wirksworth Running Club
- Derbyshire Dales DC
- Weeping Cross Fund
- M J Camp Charitable Trust
- The Gordon Bramah Charitable Settlement
- The Headley Trust
- Big Give – Regular Campaign
- William Dean C and E Trust
- Central Co op Community Fund
- Swire CT
- Magic Little Grants
Here’s the range of things we’ve done:
- Purchase of a welfare cabin to support work party volunteers
- Purchase of coir rolls for canal bank stabilisation
- Weed clearance at Pinxton wharf
- Lime mortar training of work party volunteers
- Chain saw certification of work party volunteers
- Weed clearance at Cromford
- Purchase of tools for work party volunteers
- Technical survey work on the Aqueduct Cottage to Gregory Tunnel stretch
- Purchase of materials for the enhancement of Lock-keepers garden
- Funding of generic “core” charity operation
- Maintenance of our trip boat “Birdswood”
- Footpath maintenance at Lower Hartshay
- Drainage work at Beggarlee (phase1)
- Flood mitigation work at Beggarlee (phase2)