May 23rd, 2018
We would like to hear from all boaters who took a mooring after their licence was restricted to 6 months or 3 months. Did you feel pressured into taking the mooring? If you took a CRT auctioned mooring, did you pay more than the reserve price for the mooring?
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Tags: 3 month licence, 6 month licence, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, mooring auctions, moorings
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May 21st, 2018
Mark Evans, who has been the manager of the Kennet and Avon Canal since April 2015, will lose his job as a result of CRT restructuring.
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Tags: CRT restructuring, Dale Marshall, Devizes, ex-services, Jon Horsfall, liveaboards, Mark Evans, Mike Grimes, Richard Thomas
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May 21st, 2018
A group of volunteers who run the Claverton Pumping Station recently started a campaign to prevent CRT from selling the engineman’s cottage on the site due to the risk that the heritage building would be altered beyond recognition or even demolished. However despite an online petition with 599 signatures, the volunteers reluctantly announced that their campaign was at an end. This is the joint statement today (21st May 2018) from CRT, the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, and the Claverton Volunteers:
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Tags: Claverton, Claverton pumping station, heritage, History, Mark Evans, Stuart Mills, volunteers
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May 3rd, 2018
There will be a floating market in Bath, on 5th, 6th and 7th May 2018 from 11am to 4pm.
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Tags: arts and culture, Bath, community, floating market, liveaboards, roving traders, traditional canal crafts
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April 13th, 2018
CRT is currently attempting to re-brand itself as an organisation promoting well-being. The purpose of the re-branding is to raise funds from local authorities and the NHS for the promotion of health and well-being of the general population. However CRT appears to have no intention of safeguarding the well-being of boat dwellers, even vulnerable ones.
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Tags: Boater eviction, children, continuous cruising, CRT rebranding, enforcement, eviction, Health, liveaboards, NHS, school, wellbeing
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April 11th, 2018
CRT announced in the last few days that the K&A will not be split between two regions in the charity’s ongoing restructuring, as was originally proposed. The waterway will be incorporated as a whole into the new Wales and South West Region.
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Tags: BANES Council, CRT restructuring, K&A Canal Trust, Local Waterway Partnership, West Berkshire Council, Wiltshire County Council
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April 2nd, 2018
CRT is currently carrying out a review of the visitor moorings between Devizes and Reading in a consultation exercise in which most of the user groups of the K&A are represented. Five meetings were held between August 2017 and March 2018. Proposals for any changes are due to be finalised this month, April 2018, and trialled for 12 months. During the trial, all boaters will have an opportunity to comment on the changes.
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Tags: angling, continuous cruising, Devizes, liveaboards, NABO, Reading, visitor mooring review, visitor moorings, Wiltshire County Council
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April 2nd, 2018
The Boaters’ Cafe Club outreach boat Litania will be at Bathampton Wharf on Tuesday 3rd April from 12 noon to 4pm. The Health Visitor for travelling communities will be on board.
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Tags: Bathampton, canal ministries, community, food parcels, Health, Health Visitor for travelling communities, Julian House, Litania, liveaboards, support, Travelling Community Support Service, welfare, welfare benefits
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March 29th, 2018
There will be a benefit gig to raise funds towards the community buyout of the Barge Inn, Honeystreet at 6pm on Saturday 31st March 2018, at the Bouverie Hall, North St, Pewsey SN9 5EQ. Tickets cost a minimum £5 donation on the door.
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Tags: Alton Parish Council, arts and culture, boating community, community, crop circles, the Barge Inn Honeystreet
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March 27th, 2018
The K&A Boaters’ Action Group’s next meeting is on Monday 9th April 2018 at 7.30pm at the George Inn, Bathampton BA2 6TR, right on the canal at bridge 183. All are welcome.
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Tags: Bath, Bathampton, community, continuous cruising, CRT review of boat licensing, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Mooring Strategy, meeting, The George Inn
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