Our charity has been funded by three main methods

  1. Profits from Trading Operations (trip boat Birdswood plus merchandise sales)
  2. Membership fees
  3. 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)