{"id":2104,"date":"2015-05-20T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2015-05-20T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:05:01","slug":"crt-stunning-year-financially-plus-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/crt-stunning-year-financially-plus-involvement\/2104","title":{"rendered":"CRT has &#8216;stunning year financially&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canal &amp; River Trust (CRT) stands to make a \u00a35m profit this financial year rather than the expected \u00a36m loss, despite spending more on maintenance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CRT has had a &#8220;stunning year financially&#8221; according to a very positive report by chief executive Richard Parry. The year-end income is now expected to be around \u00a315m better than in its original 2014\/15 plan. This includes an additional spend on waterways of about \u00a33 to 4m, resulting in a greater improvement in the condition of CRT\u2019s major assets.<\/p>\n<p>There has been strong growth in capital value of endowment assets and in grants for projects from such outside bodies as the Heritage Lottery Fund and charitable trusts.<\/p>\n<p>Recruitment of Friends of CRT passed 10,000 regular donors in April and the target hours for volunteering has been exceeded (411,000 hours in 14\/15). Public awareness of CRT is up 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 community adoptions of section of waterway area now \u2018live\u2019 and more money is promised for towpath improvements (\u00a313m to 2018).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/fradley2.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday at Fradley\" width=\"650\" height=\"248\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/fradley2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/fradley2-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A record number of over 400 million visits to its waterway were recorded in CRT\u2019s survey for 2014\/15. <em>Above, busy Sunday at Fradley Junction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CRT\u2019s annual national boat count, completed in March, confirmed that licence evasion rates are below 5% for the sixth year in a row; with 95.4% of boats holding up-to-date licences.<\/p>\n<p>On CRT\u2019s contract with government, which gives it guaranteed grant funding,\u00a0 Mr. Parry said: \u201cOur Ten Year Strategy is the response to this opportunity, to re-shape the organisation, how it operates, and its funding sources, to combine core navigation authority and waterways \u2018conservancy\u2019 role with wider public benefit opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Harry Arnold and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterwayimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterway Images <\/a>for this report and photo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canal &amp; River Trust (CRT) stands to make a \u00a35m profit this financial year rather than the expected \u00a36m loss,<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waterways-news"],"acf":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}