Posts Tagged ‘continuous cruising’
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
The Stop the Surcharge campaign is hosting a Drop-In session for MPs in Parliament to inform and seek their support regarding the threatened loss of homes, discriminatory surcharge and disproportionate punitive enforcement faced by the community of boat dwellers without home moorings. The Drop-In session is organised by the NBTA. **The date has been changed!!**
Please write to your MP AGAIN NOW!! and tell him or her that the new date for the MPs Drop-In session in Parliament is Thursday 28th November 2024 in Committee Room 3A at 10.00am to 11.00am.
Please ask your family and friends to write to their MPs as well and circulate this message to any other boaters who may be interested.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, continuous cruising, enforcement, licence surcharge, liveaboards, MPs, Parliament
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
Protest and engagement against the surcharge, this Saturday 26th October 2024! Meet at Lock 44 by the cafe at the top of the Caen Hill flight in Devizes at 10am. Join us to protest against the surcharge on boats without a home mooring and engage with the public to get their support!
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, boat licence fees, Caen Hill, continuous cruising, CRT, Devizes, engagement, licence surcharge, liveaboards, Lock 44, Protest, stop the surcharge
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Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
The K&A Floating Fayre will be at the Barge Inn, Honey Street on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th August along with the Barge Inn Craft and Gift market. Come along for a wonderful array of art, crafts, jewellery, traditional canal arts and crafts, other handmade wares, bike repairs, gifts of all kinds, clothes, food, drink and much more. Support our roving canal traders and our local artists and craftspeople! Enjoy the unique festival atmosphere of the world famous Barge Inn, home to crop circle enthusiasts and good beer! There will also be music, buskers and children’s activities. See you there!
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Tags: arts and culture, continuous cruising, Floating Fayre, floating market, liveaboards, roving traders, the Barge Inn Honeystreet, traditional canal crafts
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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
The first meeting of the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) K&A branch decided on two actions: first, to become involved in the Stop the Surcharge campaign; and second, to tackle the issues surrounding the loss of facilities despite an increase in boats and other concerns here on the K&A by getting in touch with the newly elected MPs and also by more grassroots methods. The second branch meeting will take place online next Tuesday 2nd July 2024 at 7pm. Come to the meeting to plan these actions and support for liveaboard boaters locally!
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, continuous cruising, facilities, licence surcharge, liveaboards, meeting, online meeting, stop the surcharge
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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
Volunteers are needed for leafleting and engagement against the surcharge, this Saturday 29th June 2024! Join us to leaflet the public to gain support and explain how CRT is unfairly targeting boaters without a home mooring and why the surcharge is unjust and a huge risk to our community and way of life. We need people to hand out leaflets, talk to members of the public, get petition signatures, and hold banners and placards. Meet us above Bradford Lock at 10am or find us nearby.
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, Bradford-on-Avon, continuous cruising, CRT, demonstration, engagement, leafteting, licence surcharge, liveaboards, NBTA, NBTA K&A, stop the surcharge
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Monday, May 27th, 2024
The General Election will take place on Thursday 4th July, and the polls will be open from 7am – 10pm. Register by 18th June if you want to vote.
You can vote even if you live on a boat without a fixed address, by declaring a “local connection” to the place you are currently moored in or spend a lot of your time in. If you have a “care of” address, you do not have to use that address to register to vote. You need photo ID to vote – see below.
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Tags: continuous cruising, electoral registration, electoral roll, general election, General Election 2024, liveaboards, no fixed address, register to vote, traveller's rights, voter ID, voter registration, voting
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Sunday, May 19th, 2024
Please sign and share this petition against the discriminatory CRT surcharge on the licences of boats without a home mooring!
The petition is online here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/stopthesurcharge
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Tags: continuous cruising, CRT, demonstration, engagement, licence surcharge, liveaboards, petition, Protest, stop the surcharge
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