RCTA Milton Keynes August BH Floating Market
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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
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
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
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
Please note the previous release had a small error in Richard’s quote. “…as we set out in our annual Boater Report, our core network expenditure is around four times what we raise from licence fees.” Should read “…as we set out in our annual Boater Report, our core network expenditure is around four times what . . . read more
12 October 2017 BOAT LICENCE FEES FOR 2018-19 The Canal & River Trust is today announcing that private and business boat licence fees will rise by 3% from 1 April 2018, roughly in line with inflation forecasts for next year. Income from boat licence fees helps to ensure that the Trust can continue to sustain . . . read more
