The Basingstoke Canal Society is a voluntary organisation established in 1966 to campaign for the restoration and preservation of the [Basingstoke Canal](/wiki/basingstoke-canal), a 37-mile waterway running through Surrey and Hampshire. The Society coordinated much of the volunteer restoration effort throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and is credited in the 1994 Hampshire County Council waterways register as the first civic body in England to restore a navigable canal using exclusively unpaid labour. It remains active, publishing a quarterly bulletin and maintaining a small archive of canal engineering records at its offices in Woking.