RCTA Milton Keynes August BH Floating Market
RCTA Linslade Christmas Market - Full - Bookings Closed
Winter Floating Fayre
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
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
Charity challenges public to help save the UK’s wildlife-rich canals People are being challenged to take to the towpaths over the course of June to raise money to protect the nation’s historic canal network, home to some of the UK’s much-loved and endangered wildlife. The Canal & River Trust, the charity which looks after . . . read more
The Canal & River Trust has published the results of its first-ever Boater Census of the 35,000 boats licensed on the charity’s 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales. The Census is intended to offer a snapshot of life on the waterways in the 21stcentury, 250 years after the network opened to navigation. The . . . read more
Sue Meades, Cheese Aboard I am Sue Meades and, with my partner Colin, we are into our fifth year of running our Roving Canal Traders business Cheese Aboard.
