Canal & River Trust

So I work with three major charities.

Uh, one is the International Trust of the Salvation Army, the second is the Canal & River Trust, and the third is the Quintin Hogg Trust, which is an educational trust based here in London.

Thank you.

So I'm gonna, gonna ask some very general questions to our panelists, and I'm gonna start with you, Tim.

But before any of that happens, it's time to take a look at the ship's telegraph, news from the canal world.

[digital beeping] The Canal & River Trust has published its annual report and accounts for 2025 to '26, a period which was dominated by droughts.

Yet despite the UK's warmest and sunniest year on record, and the driest spring since 1974, the trust says it was able to keep over 80% of the network open and operational this year.

The report also says the trust completed more than 55 million pounds worth of major infrastructure projects, spent around 29 million pounds upgrading reservoirs, removed over 75,000 tons of muck by dredging, and completed 137 large-scale winter maintenance projects.

The trust also secured additional public funding.

The Welsh Government announced it would contribute to increased costs of water supply for the Mon and Breck Canal over the next five years, while Defra announced an extra six and a half million pounds for projects to build resilience across the network.

The full annual report and accounts for 25/26 is available on the Canal & River Trust website.

I've left a direct link to it in the show notes.

F*** you.

Though he is the spawn of the bloody Canal and River Trust, and therefore definitionally a duplicitous, untrustworthy schemer who should definitely be assumed as lying spy, f*** you.

could you be like, just a little bit more like,

well, the thing about me- Then obviously I get laid in a sex way.