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Floating Fayre, Bathampton, 18th-19th May

May 13th, 2024

The K&A Floating Fayre is back! On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May 2024, the visitor moorings by the George Inn, Bathampton will be full of boats selling unique art, crafts, jewellery, traditional canal art and craftwork and other handmade wares; bike repairs, gifts of all kinds, clothes, food, drink and much more. Support our roving canal traders!

Radio 4’s Today programme wants to interview a boater on the K&A this week

April 28th, 2024

We have been contacted by a journalist from Radio 4’s Today programme. Producer Emily Knight wants to interview a boater on the K&A this week beginning 29th April 2024. Emily says:

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Tomorrow! CRT rubbish collection by boat, Bath to Bradford on Avon, 11th April

April 10th, 2024

Tomorrow, Thursday 11th April 2024, between 10am and 3pm, CRT volunteers’ work boats will be collecting rubbish between Bath and Bradford on Avon. If you have any bulky items such as mattresses, barrels of oil, waste from boat fit-outs etc, just give them a shout as they pass. They will also be doing some litter picking on the towpath as they go, and boaters are welcome to do their own litter picking and dispose of it as the work boat passes.

Keep the CRT boater bins at Bathampton – please sign petition!

April 10th, 2024

A group of local residents, itinerant boaters and long-term mooring holders have started a petition to keep the CRT boater bins at Bathampton, which were closed by CRT a month ago on 11th March with only a week’s notice and no consultation. Please sign the petition here https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-crt-boater-bins-in-bathampton

Boaters’ Easter regatta protest against surcharge 30th March – bus from K&A!

March 10th, 2024

There will be an Easter Regatta in protest against the surcharge on boat licence fees without a home mooring on Saturday 30th March 2024 at 12 noon. It will take place in Paddington Canal Basin in central London. There will be a demonstration, music, stalls and more. The march begins at the exit from Paddington Station to the canal.

There will be a minibus running from the K&A which will pick up at Pewsey and Bradford on Avon. Spaces are limited and selling fast, so get your tickets here https://buytickets.at/kanbta/1162660

Please sign petition to keep the Bike Boat on the water

March 10th, 2024

Please sign the petition to keep The Bike Boat trading on the Kennet & Avon Canal – see https://www.change.org/p/get-the-canal-river-trust-to-let-the-bike-boat-to-continue-trading-on-the-kennet-avon

Energy grants for boaters in Wiltshire who missed out on Government support – apply by 31st March

March 1st, 2024

Liveaboard boaters in Wiltshire who missed out on the Government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme are being offered £400 by Wiltshire Council. If you did not get any winter fuel and food payments from Julian House, you can apply. The funding covers boaters on residential, leisure and other non-residential moorings. Anyone in Wiltshire who has previously missed out on funding needs to upload a PDF of their CRT licence, and the first 500 households will receive £400. Neither CRT nor any mooring companies or marinas etc will be involved in the application process. The deadline to apply is 31st March 2024. You can apply by phone, contact 0300 003 4576.

Please oppose restricted opening all year for Caen Hill flight

February 10th, 2024

We have been alerted to the fact that CRT may be considering restricted opening hours all year round on a permanent basis for the Caen Hill flight in Devizes, should no objections be raised. The winter opening hours for Caen Hill (Locks 29-44) are 10am – 1pm every day, with last entry into the flight by 1pm.

Please object to this!

Shower Tuesday is back at new time 5-7pm

February 10th, 2024

Shower Tuesday is back at the new time of 5-7pm, every Tuesday at the St James Centre, Estcourt Crescent, Devizes SN10 1LR. Also available are hot drinks, hot soup and rolls, and a warm space. The shower is fully accessible. Shower Tuesday is run by the Waterways Chaplaincy. All welcome.

UK Boaters for Energy Justice – please sign petition

February 9th, 2024

More than 18 months on, many boat dwellers have still not been able to obtain the energy support payments which were promised to all households in the UK in 2022. Boat dwellers who legitimately have leisure moorings or ‘high use’ moorings, and boat dwellers without a home mooring on non-CRT waterways, are still excluded, as are some other groups such as Gypsies and Travellers living on the road. These groups still face a doubling in energy costs with no support.

Boaters in Wiltshire have launched a petition in the next phase of their campaign calling for access to two energy support payments which were promised to all eligible households in the UK.

Please sign and share the petition here https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/get-vital-ps600-energy-bill-support-to-remaining-off-grid-households-currently-excluded-from-support

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