RCTA Milton Keynes August BH Floating Market
RCTA Linslade Christmas Market - Full - Bookings Closed
Winter Floating Fayre
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
Roving Canal Traders Association Annual General Meeting 28th September 2018 was a perfect early autumn day as I drove down to the Galleon at Old Wolverton for RCTA’s Annual General Meeting. This was a drive I used to take regularly to meet my boss when I worked in Milton Keynes so I made the journey . . . read more
5 October 2018 CANAL & RIVER TRUST WINS AWARD FOR OPENNESS The Canal & River Trust has won the award in the charity category for Openness in Reporting at the Building Public Trust in Corporate Reporting Awards 2018, it was announced last night. Now in their 16th year, the Awards celebrate organisations who are leading . . . read more
A Message from Canal & River Trust: Following on from our Annual Public Meeting last Wednesday, 26th September in Birmingham, we would like to thank those of you who were able to attend the meeting, we hope you found it insightful and interesting. If you were unable to attend the meeting, or would like to . . . read more
3 October 2018 NEW BOATER-LED BOAT MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT STONEBRIDGE LOCK The Canal & River Trust is letting boaters know about its plans for Stonebridge Lock. Following a significant amount of work, much coming from the community, to improve the area, a boater-based social enterprise will now use the site to provide a new boat . . . read more
CANAL & RIVER TRUST HOSTS ITS ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING The Canal & River Trust yesterday (26 September) held its Annual Public Meeting at the IET Austin Court, Birmingham, attended by a mix of waterway stakeholders, partners, boat licence holders and members of the media. Chair Allan Leighton welcomed guests before chief executive Richard Parry spoke . . . read more
Featuring Our Members We will shortly be starting regular posts here on the RCTA website featuring you, our Members, individually with links to your websites, Facebook & Twitter pages as a promotional tool for your business. We will contact you in advance if you are a non market trading member to obtain your permission to feature . . . read more
Canal & River Trust Annual Public Meeting 2018 You may have seen Andy Tidy’s (Boating Business representative on the CRT Council) bullet point exposition of this year’s Canal & River Trust Annual Public Meeting in Birmingham (captainahabswaterytales.bogspot.com). As there is no hope that I could improve on this and rather than waste time simply repeating . . . read more
We have announced 5, yes 5! seasonal floating markets in the events page on this website. You can also find events for all of them on Facebook, please share far & wide, in the appropriate local areas. Lets get the word out there! The venues are: Autumn market at Stoke Bruerne. Christmas markets at Birmingham . . . read more
CRT made the following announcement today. For detailed information that might affect your plans please check their website. Planned winter closures View our planned winter maintenance programme for 2018/19 here. Each winter, we take the opportunity of reduced cruising activity to concentrate on essential repairs and maintenance to the canals.In many cases we have to . . . read more
17 August 2018 (missed this one while I was on holiday but here it is now! Andrew) CANAL & RIVER TRUST RESPONDS TO GOVERNMENT’S CLEAN AIR STRATEGY CONSULTATION The Canal & River Trust has urged Government to consider the needs of boaters and put financial support into the development of new, cleaner technology . . . read more
