Alrewas Arts Festival
Brownhills Canal Festival
Blisworth Festival
RCTA Milton Keynes August BH Floating Market
IWA Festival of Water 2022
Angel Canal Festival & Floating Market
Whitchurch Canal Festival
Black Country Boating Festival
2nd Shardlow Inland Port Festivel
Ginger & Spice Festival
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
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
26th September 2018 IET Birmingham Austin Court ‘The Kingston Theatre’ 80 Cambridge Street B1 2NP This is an open public meeting, which anyone can attend, but to make sure we have enough catering and seating etc. and that we don’t exceed the maximum capacity for health and safety reasons, we do ask those who wish . . . read more
Calling all members! Don’t forget the upcoming AGM to be held on the 28th September 2018, 12.00 to 15.00 pm at The Galleon, Old Wolverton Road, Milton Keynes, MK12 5NL. Everybody should have received the paperwork in an email or via the members Facebook page. If you haven’t please let me know.
It is sadly quickly coming towards the end of the season but we have two fabulous summer markets still to go. August Bank Holiday weekend opposite Campbell Park in Milton Keynes, this will be our first ever Floating Market in Milton Keynes & we are excited! In September we will be putting on a Floating . . . read more
The 2018 AGM is steadily creeping towards us and here’s a heads up that we will be wanting nominations for the committee this year. Justina Evans is retiring as Secretary and we are seeking nominations for this role. If you are an active trader and have committee experience this is the role for you. Here . . . read more
Great Haywood was my first experience in the role as volunteer market leader. What did I learn? The Facebook Messenger group set up for the market made me feel I already knew most of those attending and any slight apprehension gave way to a more relaxed feeling the closer the market came. Being on the . . . read more
If you think we have been quiet that is only because we have been working hard arranging RCTA markets & markets in conjunction with other festivals like Boxmoor Canal Festival which was a massive success for our attending traders. RCTA markets this year at Cassio Park, Berkhamsted, Gt Haywood & Market Drayton have all been . . . read more
