RCTA Milton Keynes August BH Floating Market
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
26 October 2023 CANAL & RIVER TRUST PUBLISHES BOATER REPORT 2023 The Canal & River Trust has published its Boater Report 2023. It summarises the work undertaken to keep the canal network open and available for navigation and sets out how the Trust generates the income needed to support boating and the wider use . . . 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
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
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
Monday 10 July 2023 NATION’S LARGEST CANAL CHARITY LAUNCHES TOWPATH CODE TO PROTECT VISITORS AND WILDLIFE AHEAD OF A BUSY SUMMER Link to the Towpath Code film on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgElUNZPxg The nation’s canals are busier today, with more people and boats, than at the height of the industrial revolution. New figures show . . . read more
CANAL & RIVER TRUST MAKES NEW APPOINTMENTS TO ADVISORY GROUPS The Canal & River Trust has made a new appointment to its Navigation Advisory Group (NAG), three appointments to the NAG sub-groups for moorings and locks, and two appointments to its Fisheries & Angling Advisory Group (FAAG). The voluntary groups help advise the Trust on . . . read more
CONTINUED CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO OFFER ENERGY SUPPORT TO ALL LIVEABOARD BOATERS The Canal & River Trust is continuing to lobby the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), making the case that the Energy Bill Support Scheme needs to include all those living on boats. Together with the Inland Waterways Association, National Association . . . read more
Charity challenges public to help save the UK’s wildlife-rich canals People are being challenged to take to the towpaths over the course of June to raise money to protect the nation’s historic canal network, home to some of the UK’s much-loved and endangered wildlife. The Canal & River Trust, the charity which looks after . . . read more
