Posts Tagged ‘community’
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
We are now able to publish the minutes of the meeting between liveaboard boaters, Michelle Donelan MP and CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry. The meeting was minuted by Wiltshire Council’s Peter Dunford, Community Engagement Manager for Bradford on Avon. Also included is a record of the discussions. You can download them here:
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Friday, August 5th, 2016
BBC Radio Wiltshire Breakfast Show will feature tomorrow’s protest against CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy towards boaters without home moorings. Listen out for the live interview at 7.25am.
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Tags: BBC, BBC Radio Wiltshire, boating community, boating in the media, children, community, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, school
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters and their supporters are invited to join a protest at Caen Hill, opposite CRT’s office in Devizes at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th August 2016 to express our opposition to CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. This policy has seen so many liveaboard boaters on the K&A having their licences restricted to 6 months, threatened with losing their homes, being pressured to give up their homes, and boat children’s education and welfare suffering due to the long distances they are being forced to travel to school.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
There will be a showing of Off the Cut, the film by Wendy Zakiewicz, at the Bell in Walcot St, Bath this Saturday 16th July 2016, followed by some great sounds.
Tags: arts and culture, community, continuous cruising, liveaboards, Off the Cut, The Bell Inn, Wendy Zakiewicz
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
Following recent media coverage of CRT’s punitive policy towards boat dwellers without home moorings, especially the features about families on the K&A who are being threatened with the loss of their home because their children go to school, a boater has contacted us with these comments. Steve Haigh writes:
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, enforcement, liveaboards, Off the Cut
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
A primary school head condemned CRT’s enforcement policy against boats without home moorings as “inhumane” because of its detrimental effect on boat children, in a meeting between CRT chief Richard Parry and local MP Michelle Donelan.
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
The next meeting of the K&A boaters action group will be on Monday June 13th at 7.30pm in Hungerford. This is the first time the group has met in Hungerford. We hope that boaters who normally spend most of their time on the eastern part of the K&A will attend, so please pass this information on to anyone you think might want to come.
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Tags: community, Hungerford, K&A boaters action group, meeting
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Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters from the K&A joined demonstrations outside CRT’s headquarters in Milton Keynes on 10th May where in total about 90 boat dwellers without home moorings protested against the charity’s punitive and unlawful enforcement action against boats without a home mooring. Some 15 boaters also protested at CRT’s licensing office in Leeds.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Milton Keynes, NBTA, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Following the handing in of the Boats are Homes petition to Prime Minister David Cameron and the Boats are Homes march, boaters are invited to join a protest at Canal & River Trust offices in Leeds and its Milton Keynes HQ at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 10th May 2016.
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Tags: community, continuous cruising, demonstration, enforcement, evictions, liveaboards, Milton Keynes, Protest, school, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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