The charities taking part include:

• Bridge 19-40 is a small charity supporting the heritage and environment of the Union Canal near Broxburn, Winchburgh and Philpstoun, between bridges 19-40.

• Community Moorings Scotland is working towards Scotland’s first community moorings model to encourage busy canals and vibrant spaces.

• Forth & Clyde Canal Society, originally formed to campaign to reopen the canal, is operated by volunteers to promote the canal through boat trips, campaigns, events and educational trips.

• Free Wheel North is a disabled cycling charity aiming to help and encourage people of all ages and abilities to get cycling.

• Lambhill Stables, on the Forth & Clyde Canal in north Glasgow, is a community hub providing a meeting place for local groups. During lockdown the organisation has packed and distributed food parcels and provided children’s packed lunches.

• The Linthlithgow Union Canal Society is a major tourist attraction on the Union Canal, operating boat trips and charters, and Scotland’s only Canal Museum.

• Pinkston Watersports, Scotland’s only artificial white water course, is a community clean-water paddle sports venue in Glasgow city centre at the very end of the Glasgow arm of the Forth & Clyde Canal.

• Re-Union Canal Boats offers volunteering, training, educational and environmental programmes to communities in Falkirk and Edinburgh, provides boat trips and delivers lock-keeping services.

• The Seagull Trust offers free canal cruises from four locations in Scotland for people with special needs.

• The Sorted Project operates its boat Panacea to assist those recovering from drug and substance dependency and associated mental health problems.

• People Know How and Polwarth Church, the Kirk on the (Union) Canal, have come together for All Aboard, a canalside venture which will run boat-based community activities from the Polwarth pontoon.