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# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
15087141 (England and Wales)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 September 2024

## End date: 31 August 2025

# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

Balance sheet |
Additional notes |
Balance sheet notes |
Community Interest Report |

# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 August 2025

| Notes | 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Current assets
Stocks: | 3 | 1,040 | 1,118
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 1,565 | 5,980
Total current assets: |  | 2,605 | 7,098
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 15 |
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 2,620 | 7,098
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 2,620 | 7,098
Provision for liabilities: |  |  | ( 215 )
Accruals and deferred income: |  | ( 1,980 ) | ( 5,980 )
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | 640 | 903
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 640 | 903
Total members' funds: |  | 640 | 903

The notes form part of these financial statements

# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 August 2025 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 18 May 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Timothy Blamire Clarke
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

- ## 1. Accounting policies

  Basis of measurement and preparation

  These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2025 | 2024
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 0 | 0

# ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

## 3. Stocks

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Stocks | 1,040 | 1,118
Total | 1,040 | 1,118

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### ACCESSIBLE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION CIC

### Company Number: 15087141 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 August 2025

Company activities and impact

Since launching as a CIC in 2023 to promote accessibility across the inland waterways, we have built strong partnerships and gained recognition across the sector. We were appointed as a Nominating Body on the Canal & River Trust Council and joined both the Environment Agency National Waterways Advisory Group and the Grand Union Water Transfer Scheme consultation group, helping to ensure accessibility is considered in future waterways and towpath developments. We have also worked closely with the Canal &River Trust on the Accessible Moorings project, including the development of a new accessible bollard design that received the CRT Inclusivity Award. Our work has been recognised nationally through nominations for, and receipt of, the CRT National Volunteer of the Year Award 2025. We have strengthened relationships with major organisations, including the Environment Agency, Disability Rights UK, the Residential Boat Owners Association, and the Inland Waterways Association, supporting collaboration, campaigning, and information sharing across the waterways community. Alongside this, we have been actively involved in numerous CRT groups and forums, including Full Council, Boaters’ Representatives meetings, regional and national Boaters’ Forums, Disabled Boaters’ Forums, the Website Accessibility Working Group, and the Boaters’ App Taskforce. We regularly attend site meetings and local events to provide practical accessibility input and advice. We have also expanded our work beyond the waterways sector by opening discussions with senior NHS Care Board representatives regarding healthcare provision for boaters and participating in the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group to raise awareness of the healthcare challenges faced by the boating community. Our engagement with Sustrans, now the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, has further supported conversations around accessible and safe shared routes, beginning with a consultation on improved signage in Gloucester with wider national ambitions. To raise awareness and build support, we have attended major waterways events, including Canalway Cavalcade at Little Venice, Crick Boat Show, and the Braunston Historic Boat Rally. We are also pleased to have secured the support of Sir David Suchet to help promote our work. In addition, we have begun developing a disability and accessibility training manual for staff and volunteers, intending to roll it out across the Canal & River Trust, the Environment Agency, and other waterways authorities in the future.

Consultation with stakeholders

The company's stakeholders are waterways navigation authorities and boaters. The directors have lived aboard their narrowboat for 12 years and naturally engage in frequent conversations with other boaters as well as with people who enjoy the canals and rivers in every other way. This includes both disabled and non-disabled people. We participate in regular disabled boaters' forums where issues are raised and discussed in a constructive manner. We represent disabled boaters at the regular boaters' reps meetings, CRT council and other appropriate meetings with the Canal & River Trust. This includes participating in APPG for Waterways meetings on relevant topics. Two successful accessible waterways days, one in Birmingham and one in London, have raised awareness of the need to improve accessibility. We are working with CRT to develop the accessible mooring bollard. A trial installation is currently being planned. Our campaign for accessing primary health care has seen us meet with the APPG for Health, where we highlighted the difficulties nomadic boaters (amongst many others) can experience if they cannot provide a postcode within the surgery area.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
18 May 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Timothy Blamire Clarke
Status: Director