Welcome to our newly designed website.

The Chesterfield Canal Trust is a charitable company run entirely by volunteers, incorporated in July 1997. In 1998 it took over the assets of the former Chesterfield Canal Society (founded 1976).

The aims of the Trust are to promote the full restoration and appropriate development of the Chesterfield Canal, and to campaign for the construction of the Rother Valley Link, a navigable waterway to join the Chesterfield Canal to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.

At present the Trust has over eight hundred members, who for a small membership fee of 10 a year, receive regular copies of the society magazine Cuckoo, so called because of the local name for the canal, the 'Cuckoo Dyke'.

The Trust welcomes contributions to the website from a wide range of authors in order to encourage discussion. Please note therefore that the content may not always reflect the policies of the Trust.

Members come from a very wide background of interests, and new members are always welcomed. The Trust has no paid staff, but relies entirely upon volunteers to initiate, develop and carry forward our projects, and we can use people with almost any skill or simply enthusiasm! Everyone is equally welcome, whether you want to become actively involved in the society's work, or just support our aims and would like to keep up to date with progress through reading our magazine.

• The Trust provides a slide presentation of the Chesterfield Canal and its restoration to local groups. If your group would like to see this, please email (Chesterfield) or (Retford)

  Campaigning among statutory bodies, councils, businesses, voluntary groups
  and individuals for support for our aim of restoring the Chesterfield Canal,
  and to prevent harmful development
• Representing our views on planning issues affecting the canal
• Carrying out practical restoration and conservation work
• Running two passenger trip boats on the canal
• Surveying, engineering and construction design work
• Organising Canal Days to publicise the canal
• Running a sales stand
• Taking our exhibition to different locations in the region
• Providing a slide and video show for local audiences
• Organising a social programme for members
• Publishing and distributing our award-winning members' magazine CCT Magazine 'Cuckoo'
• Keeping a photographic record of the canal, its wildlife and its restoration
• Conducting historical research into the canal
• Writing new publications for sale
• Designing promotional material
• Publishing press releases to spread the word about our work
• Organising fund - raising activities including raffles and sponsored walks
• Seeking sponsorship and donations
• Liaising with other voluntary groups
• Researching, publishing and leading walks along the canal and improving access
• oh yes...and updating this web site!

For further information about the Trust, click here: Contacts list now has its own page.