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
The Canal & River Trust will launch its £1.6 million major works programme at Earlswood Lakes, with project managers available for interview Canal & River Trust, the national waterways and wellbeing charity, is starting a £1.6 million programme of improvements to the reservoirs at Earlswood. The works, which are required to ensure the reservoirs are . . . read more
25 February 2021 Figure of Three Storm Damaged Lock New Drone Footage Released one year on as £3m Major Repair Work nears completion A major £3 million repair project at Figure of Three Lock on the Calder & Hebble Navigation is nearing completion. Drone footage has been released by waterways and wellbeing charity Canal & . . . read more
Following the Government’s update on Covid-19 last night, we have updated our guidance for boaters. Please visit our website for further information. All navigation in England and Wales should remain limited to essential use only. We are closely monitoring the guidance and will confirm any update on cruising as soon as we can. Boaters who . . . read more
Calling all artists and makers within the membership. Would you like to volunteer take the following project forward? This project has been in gestation for a number of years now and it should have gone ‘live’ in 2020 but was scuppered by the pandemic. If ever a project was a victim of circumstances, it must . . . read more
We are pleased to announce the re-launch & re-brand of RCTA Online “Floating” Markets. To make things easy, we have created a specific RCTA Online Markets Facebook page. All online markets will be published from here. If you could invite your friends to like this page, it would be really helpful. 19-20 February Online Market . . . read more
11 February 2021 Canal & River Trust has invited a third of boat licence holders to complete a short survey asking for views on the Trust and the upkeep of its waterways. The Annual Perceptions Survey is issued via SNAP Surveys to licence holders by email, text, or post where an email address for a . . . read more
11 February 2021 The Canal & River Trust has published its Annual Lockage Report for 2020 which shows how many times locks were used across the charity’s 2,000 miles of waterways. As Covid-19 lockdown restrictions interrupted boaters usual cruising patterns for much of the year, the Report charts an unprecedented drop in use. The Report . . . read more
Baked on Board The story so far After holidaying on narrow boats for many years, Paul Partridge and his then partner started to seriously think about giving up full time jobs, buying a boat and leaving behind their beloved life in Cornwall to live and work on a narrow boat full time on the Shropshire . . . read more
2020 was a Difficult Year for the RCTA and Members alike. Like everyone else, we have faced a totally unknown scenario. One of the main features of the RCTA, the Floating Markets, came to an abrupt halt when lockdown was announced.
28 October 2020 The Canal & River Trust has published its Boater Report 2020 for its 34,500 leisure licence holders. The Report sets out how the Trust generates its income, including the contribution from boaters, and how that money is invested in the network. The Report will be provided as an emailable PDF which will . . . read more
