IWA Canalway Cavalcade 2025 - Dates/Times TBC
The Batchworth Rally
2025 Waterways Festival Foxton & Market Harborough
Middlewich Folk & Boat 2025
Linslade Canal Festival 2025
Brownhills Canal Festival 2025
Black Country Boating Festival 2025
25 October 2023 Nominations invited to join Canal & River Trust’s Council of Members The Canal & River Trust charity is inviting people to put themselves forward for election to sit on its Council. Those elected will serve a term of four years on the Council, which is responsible for the appointment of the charity’s . . . read more
23 October 2023 COUNTING THE COST OF CLIMATE CHANGE: CANALS LEFT DAMAGED BY STORM BABET The Canal & River Trust, the national canal charity, is working across its 2,000 miles of historic canals and navigable rivers to respond to the damage left by Storm Babet. Hundreds of trees have been blown down, and . . . read more
4 October 2023 CANAL & RIVER TRUST SHARES STRUCTURE OF BOAT LICENCE PRICING Following the announcement on 19 September about changes to future boat licensing, the Canal & River Trust is today giving further details about the increases in licence fees to be applied from 1 April 2024 for boats without a home mooring . . . read more
26 September 2023 Canal & River Trust 2022/23 Annual Report & Accounts published The Canal & River Trust has published its Annual Report & Accounts for 2022/23. The Report highlights the importance of the 250-year-old canal network in helping to address key societal challenges, but also the significant risks the ageing canals are facing . . . read more
19 September 2023 CHANGES TO CANAL & RIVER TRUST BOAT LICENCE FEES Canal & River Trust is announcing changes to future boat licence pricing following a consultation with boaters. Alongside growth in income from other commercial and fundraising activity, the changes will help support the long-term future of the 2,000 miles of waterways that . . . read more
CRT have now published their planned winter stoppages for 2023-24.
3 August 2023 CANAL CHARITY WARNS OF INCREASING BATTLE AGAINST AQUATIC WEEDS The Canal & River Trust – the national charity working to protect the nation’s historic canals – is predicting that warmer wetter summers bought about by climate change are making the fight to stop Britain’s canals from becoming choked by invasive . . . read more
24 July 2023 INNOVATION AT CANAL CHARITY’S LOCK GATE WORKSHOPS The Canal & River Trust’s lock gate workshops, at Bradley in the West Midlands and Stanley Ferry in Yorkshire, are bringing forward several small changes to lock gate production to increase speed and efficiency. With over 1,500 locks across the Trust’s canal . . . read more
17 July 2023 CANAL CHARITY ANNOUNCES PROGRAMME OF WORK TO HELP PROTECT THE NATION’S HISTORIC WATERWAYS The Canal & River Trust has announced an £89m programme of engineering work, illustrating the scale of the resource required to protect and preserve the nation’s 250-year-old canal network. Against a backdrop of the government announcing . . . read more
10 July 2023 Government funding cuts put future of nation’s historic canals at risk Canal & River Trust issues stark warning that government funding cuts mean the nation’s much-loved canal network is at risk of closures. The announcement comes as the growing impact of climate change is increasing the cost of maintaining historic . . . read more
