13/14 Annual Report widely praised Income ahead of plan and greater - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Introduction and apologies 6.30 • Trust update 6.35 • Enterprise update 7.00 • Angling strategy / plan development 7.10 • Refreshments – Networking 7.20 • Customer Q and A 8.00 • Date of next meeting 8.50 • Close 9.00

• 13/14 Annual Report widely praised • Income ahead of plan and greater Waterway spending • Small improvement in overall asset condition (D/E assets < 15%)

• Strong Property income growth, £6m ahead of plan

• Weather works completed • Additional waterway spend planned • £90m this year, up £7m from 13/14 • Over £1m of additional customer service works added + added vegetation works • More dredging! • Details now published on the Trust website

Employee Safety improving … Employee Lost Time Injuries LTIs/month Monthly Occurences and Trend Ave LTIs/month 5 4 3 2 1 0

Fundraising • New ‘in house’ team working well • 7,500 active Friends at 30 September – up c2,000 since 1 April • + over £100k Trust grant funding

Marketing

Volunteers & Communities • A dozen more Community adoptions (65 in total) • Increase in volunteer lock keepers (c.425) • New ‘welcome stations’ in place at 20 key locations

Education ‘Explorers’ • ‘Explorers’ have worked with c.20 ,000 children so far this year … + a few Tory MPs

Sharing Towpaths • Consultation during May yielded over 2,000 responses

Restorations • First conference held – over 50 groups attending • ‘Water Adds Value’ video + Sir Tony Robinson -led campaign

HS2 • Fradley junction route alignment change accepted by HS2 • Fantastic success from joint working with IWA / local groups • Assurances given to Lichfield Canal Society

• APPWG Inquiry held in July and report published: • Strong endorsement for the Trust’s first two years • Support for EA navigations transfer • Active political engagement continuing • MP visits • Exhibition at Westminster this week

Contract success …

Mobile devices roll-out

Customer / Boaters’ engagement • Open meetings in spring reached 800+ people • Live Facebook Q&A gained over 100 responses

First Angling Canal Championships held

Filming – c£120k to date

Hay Festival

Tour de France comes to the Rochdale Canal …

Vision What we want to be Caring Open Local Involvement Excellence Values

£354K £584K HPN stoppages Submitted plan £6557K

£627K £801K HPN £133K dowry £380K dredging veg mgmt £129K other £999K £266K floating plant PPM £162K Inspections £226K manned structures £245K £62K M&E £65K rapid response £480K customer service volunteering stoppages £1982K

£543K £585K Reactive & Arising Works Utilities/ Premises Costs Insurance Depreciation Training, Vehicles etc NI & Pensions £271K £311K £133K £139K

£- £500 £1,000 £1,500 £2,000 £2,500 KEY HPN Plan dowry Actual to date dredging Forecast veg mgmt other floating plant PPM Inspections manned structures M&E rapid response customer service volunteering stoppages

Timber Repairs £109K Metalwork Repairs £76K Seepage Repairs £48K Concrete Repairs £83K Masonry Repairs £209K Safety Works £114K Bank Repairs £86K £k £50k £100k £150k £200k £250k

£k £50k £100k £150k £200k £250k Bank Repairs KEY Safety Works Plan Actual to date Masonry Repairs Forecast Concrete Repairs Seepage Repairs Metalwork Repairs Timber Repairs • Arising HPN’s for Safety works – sluice repairs and tripping hazards

• Developing 4 major towpath improvement schemes with local authority partners • Looking to work with partners to bid into European Structural Funds next year • Developing a follow on scheme to the current Aire Action Leeds partnership • Developing new bid on back of success of community project in Dewsbury • Working with partners to develop Victoria Quays in Sheffield as commercial and visitor destination

• Sheffield & Tinsley Towpath: now secured a design cost to send to Sheffield CC circa 90k for a 1.2M project. Funding potentially from LSTF within the next 2 years. • Humber Levels Stainforth & Keadby Towpath: Consultants now in place to deliver public consultation and design work for website. A number of events have been held to make connections between each of the projects. • Dewsbury Waterlinked: potential to secure extra 20k from Big Lottery (project underspend in year 1 still on our books), business case to be sent early next week. • Knottingley Towpath: Wakefield undertaking consultation – will be on our website next week. Work to be undertaken this year on a 1.9km stretch. • Continuing to scope funding for freight activities regionally and Europe wide.

• Pocklington Canal: submitted all updated documents as requested, await confirmation from HLF. First activities will be to recruit a consultant to co-ordinate production of a Conservation Management Plan, a consultant to deliver the Visitor Interpretation Plan and recruitment of Development Officer. We will have 12 months to submit Round 2. • Scoping funding bid to Veolia with Becca Dent for an angling project where the hydro scheme developer will be the match funder. Circa 50k, this will include new angling pegs and environmental improvements.

Lock gates 2014 / 15 – • Flood gates at Anchor pit, Long cut end, Battyeford and Greenwood • Thornes, Battyeford, Tinsley 5 and 6 and Fall Ings Lock gates 2015 / 16 • Priorities Major works Completed • Fairies Hill, Selby Dredging, Tees Gate Maintenance, • Major works underway • Sykehouse Lockbridge, Eastwood footbridge, • Walker Bridge

• ‘Be Inspired Go Fishing’ National Angling Strategy launched (Sept 2013) • Recruitment of a National Angling Development Manager (Sept 2013) A few priorities emerging from the strategy: - Gain a national picture of canal clubs currently renting waters (national survey) - Develop 11 local plans considering local issues in line with national findings (North East region is our first pilot) - Development volunteer opportunities with a fisheries and angling focus - Attract funding to fisheries and angling to aid project delivery. - Increase participation, with a specific focus on youth in angling on Canal & River Trust managed waters. Canalrivertrust.org.uk

• We interviewed 203 of 220 Angling Clubs and Associations. • Most of the Trust contacts have been members of their club for 25 years or more, half are aged 65+ • A wide variation in sizes; a quarter have fewer than 50 members, a fifth have over 500 • In total these Angling Clubs and Associations have around 60,000 members • A fifth of these clubs only fish Trust canal/s – these are mostly small clubs • Larger clubs do most of their fishing elsewhere, not on the Trust canals • When clubs fish both canals and still waters, usually the still waters are more popular with members: • Around half of clubs report their membership levels are fairly static • But among the remainder, for each expanding club there are two who are losing members, mainly due to: • the growth in commercial fisheries • a lack of interest in fishing among the young, resulting in an ageing membership • 18% of clubs are growing – some said this is because they now provide members with more places to fish; well-stocked, quality waters

Key priorities: • Fish stocks • Access • Towpath behaviour • Fish theft & illegal fishing • Fish predation & non native species • Communication • Signage • Digital presence & marketing • Illegal mooring • Volunteering

Fisheries & Angling Action Plan Stage 1 • Where are we in relation to the national emerging priorities from the club survey • Where do we want to be in ten years time Stage 2 • Take outputs from stage 1 and test them with clubs • Identify actions to be delivered in 5 years time Stage 3 • Sustainable action plan for Yorkshire

Becca Dent National Angling Development Manager becca.dent@canalrivertrust.org.uk