# ESSEX WATERWAYS NAVIGATION TRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1212502
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** March 12, 2025
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1212502


## Contact

- **Address:** The Navigation Office, Paper Mill Lock, NORTH HILL, CHELMSFORD
- **Postcode:** CM3 4BS
- **Phone:** 01245226245
- **Email:** essex@waterways.org.uk
- **Website:** www.essexwaterways.com



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO:2.1 THE RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT, OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE CHELMER AND BLACKWATER NAVIGATION AND ANY EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING WATERWAYS (THE "NAVIGATION"):2.1.1 FOR NAVIGATION;2.1.2 FOR WALKING ON THE TOWPATHS; AND2.1.3 FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME PURSUITS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE INTERESTS OF THEIR HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE. 2.2 PROTECTING AND CONSERVING SITES, OBJECTS AND BUILDINGS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING OR HISTORIC INTEREST ON, IN THE VICINITY OF, OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH, THE NAVIGATION.2.3 PROMOTING AWARENESS, LEARNING AND EDUCATION ABOUT THE NAVIGATION, ITS HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, USE, OPERATION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.

**Activities:** The charity, along with its trading subsidiary Essex Waterways Ltd, manages the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation in Essex for public benefit.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- **What:** Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Essex




## Trustees

- Christopher Glen Leigh Fulton — appointed May 2, 2025
- Colin Mark Hunter Edmond — appointed March 31, 2025
- James Eric Jenkins — appointed March 31, 2025
- John Richard Pomfret — appointed May 2, 2025
- Neil Edwards — appointed March 12, 2025
- ROY EDGAR CHANDLER — appointed Dec. 12, 2024
- Rebecca Loader — appointed Nov. 7, 2025