Crick Boat Show
RCTA Fazeley Junction BH Floating Market
RCTA Boxmoor May Spring BH Floating Market
Leicester River Festival
RCTA Atherstone Floating Market
RCTA Cassiobury Park Floating Market
Middleport Pottery Canal Festival
RCTA Coventry Floating Market
RCTA Cowley Park Floating Market
Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2026
The Roving Canal Traders Association traditionally starts off the year with Easter Markets, and 2023 is no exception! As usual, we have two markets – this year in Linslade and Great Haywood. There will be several traders at each event and plenty of wonderful items to buy! Take a look at the details below: 2023 . . . 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
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.
Notes from the 2019 CRT National Users’ Forum held in Birmingham on the 3rd April. This is the third time that I have attended this annual meeting to represent RCTA and it has been fascinating to observe the change in the organisation over that time. I will try to give a flavour of the meeting . . . read more
Plans have started for this years Aylesbury Waterside Festival. Representatives from all the organisations involved in creating this wonderful event met this morning bright and early. Including our own Karl Wager for RCTA. Lots of ideas are coming out of the woodwork which will help to make this an event to remember.
Notes of a meeting between Sarah Brown Development and Engagement Manager at CRT and Andrew Mills and Ronni Payne held at Stoke Bruerne on 11th October 2018. This meeting was the outcome of a letter sent by Andrew Mills to Gareth Stevens National Boating Business Manager and forwarded to Sarah Brown Development and Engagement Manager . . . read more
Meeting between Andrew Mills and Peter Moore CRT Liaison 3rd October 2018 Issues discussed 1. RCTA was seeking to simplify market booking arrangements * block bookings with CRT * a single representative to manage booking arrangements * to submit a maximum mooring length for each venue that could be adjusted to reflect actual bookings taken . . . read more
This week I was at Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum with Ronni Payne meeting Sarah Brown from CRT to discuss how RCTA and CRT might work together in the future (an exciting meeting and a report will be emailed out next week to RCTA members). After the meeting and with only a few minutes left on . . . read more
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
