About the Wendover Arm Trust

The Wendover Arm Trust was formed in February I989 as a voluntary body, set up to promote the restoration of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. It is a company limited by Guarantee and without share capital, and a registered charity.

At the time of formation, there was a danger of the canal suffering further deterioration due to neglect, and the severing of the Arm by what was then only a proposal to construct the Aston Clinton By-pass.

If we paraphrase the trust’s Articles of Association, the aims of the trust are:

• To promote and achieve restoration to navigable standard of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal from Bulbourne to Wendover. This includes the waterway, all buildings, works, and structures.
  
  
• To maintain and improve the waterway for the use and benefit of all
  
  
• To promote the fullest use of the waterway by all forms of waterborne traffic and for all forms of local amenity, tourist and recreational, and water-related activities for the benefit of the public.
  
  
• To promote and educate the public in the history, use and associated wildlife of canals and inland waterways generally, and of the Arm in particular.
  
  
• To restore, reconstruct, preserve, and maintain canals and inland waterways and works and auxiliary works and buildings generally, provided that there is a net benefit to the public.