RCTA Crystal Palace Berkhamsted Floating Market
RCTA Barbridge Floating Market
RCTA Middlewich BH Floating Market
Black Country Boating Festival 2026
RCTA Anderton Floating Market
Oxford Canal Festival
Nancy May Crochet is getting ready for Winter. With Christmas just around the corner, her hooks are working overtime making stock. Creating is a full time occupation for Jan Price (sorry Haydn, this means more wool, lol!). This year, Jan is concentrating on making affordable woollens for easy gifts to give, or keep yourself warm: . . . 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
Baked on Board The story so far After holidaying on narrow boats for many years, Paul Partridge and his then partner started to seriously think about giving up full time jobs, buying a boat and leaving behind their beloved life in Cornwall to live and work on a narrow boat full time on the Shropshire . . . 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.
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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
