Linslade RCTA Easter Floating Market
Gt. Haywood RCTA Easter Floating Market
St Richards Canal Festival
IWA Canalway Cavalcade
Norbury Canal Festival
Moira Canal Festival
BCNS Brownhills Canal Festival
BCN Explorer Cruise
Etruria Canal Festival
Middlewich Fab Festival
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.
17 December 2018 The Canal & River Trust has finalised the sale of its wholly-owned marina subsidiary, BWML, in a transaction that sees LDC invest in the business,supporting the existing management team. Stuart Mills, chief investment officer at the Canal & River Trust,says: “We are delighted to have completed the sale of BWML and will . . . read more
7 November 2018 BOAT LICENCE FEES FOR 2019-20 The Canal & River Trust is today confirming that headline private and business boat licence fees will be frozen for 2019 and will remain at current prices until 1 April 2020. As previously announced, following the Trust’s national boat licence consultation, which concluded in March, several changes . . . read more
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
8 October 2018 ECO-MOORING ZONE IN DEVELOPMENT IN ISLINGTON The Canal & River Trust and Islington Council are creating an ‘eco-mooring zone’ for visiting boats between York Way and Danbury Street on the Regent’s Canal. Supported by funding from Defra, the zone will include electric charging points to provide boaters with an alternative to running . . . read more
T H E W A T E R W A Y S OMBUDSMAN Press release: Waterways Ombudsman issues Annual Report The Waterways Ombudsman and the Waterways Ombudsman Committee have issued their Annual Reports for 2017/18. The Ombudsman’s Report shows that the number of complaints entering the Canal & River Trust’s complaint process was 252, slightly . . . 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
5 October 2018 CANAL & RIVER TRUST WINS AWARD FOR OPENNESS The Canal & River Trust has won the award in the charity category for Openness in Reporting at the Building Public Trust in Corporate Reporting Awards 2018, it was announced last night. Now in their 16th year, the Awards celebrate organisations who are leading . . . read more
