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Public Health Wiltshire Boaters’ Survey – respond by 27th October

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

Public Health Wiltshire is running a boaters’ survey to find out about the health and other needs of liveaboard boaters who live or travel in Wiltshire. The purpose of the survey is to determine what boaters’needs are and how they can be met. The more boaters who complete the survey, the more evidence there is for extending or setting up services such as Julian House Travelling Communities Support into Wiltshire and the K&A canal.

You can complete the survey online here

https://surveys.wiltshire.gov.uk/s/boaters

Boaters’ meeting to discuss licence fee surcharge, 15th October, Bradford on Avon

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

There will be a boaters’ meeting to discuss the CRT surcharges for boats without a home mooring; lack of facilities; lack of waterway maintenance and other issues that affect the community of liveaboard boaters on the K&A, and what we can do to protect our way of life.

The meeting will take place at 5pm on Sunday 15th October 2023 at the Wallington Hall, Church St, Bradford on Avon BA15 1LN. Church St is opposite the Dandy Lion pub; the hall used to be called the Masonic Hall or the Church Hall.

CRT impose surcharge on boat licences without a home mooring

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

Following the CRT consultation on licence fees in March this year, CRT announced on 5th October 2023 that it would impose a surcharge on licences without a home mooring, making these licences more expensive than licences for boats with a home mooring. We oppose this discriminatory and unfair move, which is the biggest attack on the community of liveaboard boaters without a home mooring since CRT’s 2015 enforcement policy for boats without a home mooring.

Boaters invited to anti-poverty meeting with MP to raise exclusion from energy bill support

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Liveaboard boaters are invited to an event in Pewsey tomorrow, Friday 6th October, where Danny Kruger, the MP for Devizes, Marlborough and Pewsey will be attending. The event is organised by Devizes and District Food Bank, which has supported boaters in our struggle to receive the energy bill support that the Government promised to ‘every household’. Many liveaboard boaters are still excluded, despite the Government decision to pay the grant to boaters licensed by CRT without a home mooring.

Kennet and Avon Boating Community Website

Archive for October, 2023

Public Health Wiltshire Boaters’ Survey – respond by 27th October

Boaters’ meeting to discuss licence fee surcharge, 15th October, Bradford on Avon

CRT impose surcharge on boat licences without a home mooring

Boaters invited to anti-poverty meeting with MP to raise exclusion from energy bill support

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