News
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Sunday, November 5th, 2023
CRT is planning to levy a ‘surcharge’ on boats licensed without a home mooring, which will start at 5% of the licence fee in April 2024 and increase to 25% by 2028. This could price us off the waterways and eliminate our nomadic way of life. There will be a national protest march on CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry’s office at Cambrian Wharf in central Birmingham to oppose the surcharge on our community. The march is organised by the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA).
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Birmingham, boat licence fees, coach from K&A, continuous cruising, demonstration, licence surcharge, liveaboards, meeting, Protest, Richard Parry
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
The lane where boaters park their vehicles in Wilcot has been ‘landscaped’ to make parking impossible, according to boaters who are moored there. On 24th October, rubble and earth was piled up along the whole length of the lane on both sides, making a steep bank as shown in the photographs below. This was done even though there were some boaters’ cars parked in the lane at the time.
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Tags: continuous cruising, flytipping, liveaboards, parking, prejudice, Wilcot, Wiltshire County Council
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
Julian House Travelling Communities Support Service will be visiting Bradford Lock on 7th November 2023 and Caen Hill Marina on 14th November 2023 with nb Litania at 11am to 4.30pm. They will be providing Covid 19 and Flu vaccinations to boaters who are in the eligible groups: age 65 and over and other people who are eligible due to specific health conditions etc. There will also be support and information on welfare; other health matters, and free Boat Fire Safety packs and first aid kits.
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Tags: boat fire safety pack, continuous cruising, Covid-19 vaccination, Fire safety, first aid kits, Flu vaccination, Health, Julian House, liveaboards, nb Litania, Travelling Community Support Service, welfare
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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.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, boat licence fees, continuous cruising, inflation, liveaboards, meeting, Protest, widebeams
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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.
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Tags: cost of living, Danny Kruger MP, Devizes and District Food Bank, Energy Bills Support Scheme, fuel costs, heating, liveaboards, meeting, poverty, welfare
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Friday, August 18th, 2023
UPDATE – the deadline to make sure your details are correct with CRT has been extended to 28th August!
After great efforts of the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) and others campaigning for the energy grant, many boaters without a home mooring on CRT waterways can now get £600 each.
The Department for Energy and Net Zero (ESNZ) and CRT made an announcement yesterday that 7,000 live-aboard boaters without a home mooring will receive a voucher redeemable for cash of £600. This is the result of a concerted effort by dedicated people who took up the fight for inclusion.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, continuous cruising, cost of living, Energy Bills Support Scheme, fuel costs, heating, liveaboards, welfare
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Saturday, July 29th, 2023
The Energy Security and Net Zero (ESNZ) Parliamentary Committee is to carry out an inquiry into Preparing for the Winter, including the continued exclusion of boat dwellers and other itinerant or off-grid households from the Government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS). The Committee will hear verbal and written evidence in September 2023. You can send your own testimony to the Committee by email to commonsesnz@parliament.uk or by post to-Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. You can also submit evidence online here: https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3185/
The deadline for submitting your evidence is 25th August.
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Tags: Angus MacNeil MP, continuous cruising, cost of living, Danny Kruger MP, Energy Bills Support Scheme, fuel costs, heating, liveaboards, Parliament, Select Committee, traveller's rights, welfare
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