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.
Liveaboard boaters, both with and without a home mooring, are invited to a meeting with Danny Kruger, the MP for Devizes, tomorrow Friday 16th June 2023 at 3pm at Caen Hill Marina to continue to lobby for liveaboard boaters to be included in the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS). The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald will attend from 4pm; BBC Radio Wiltshire is also interested in covering the exclusion of liveaboard boaters from the EBSS. The meeting has been organised by Devizes Food Bank.
We have received an invitation from Bath and NE Somerset Council (BaNES) to attend a workshop on the Bath Local Plan on Monday 30th January 2023 at 4.30-7.30pm. If you can attend and you want to put forward the views of the liveaboard boating community on the future of Bath and its environs, please sign up using this link https://forms.office.com/e/94cYJawJwB
CRT is holding its 2022 Annual Public meeting online at 12 noon to 1.30pm on Wednesday 12th October 2022. CRT is inviting people to submit questions to be answered in the meeting. See https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/annual-report-and-accounts/annual-public-meeting-2022
You can email questions to
annualpublicmeeting@canalrivertrust.org.uk
or send them via CRT’s social media channels
https://www.facebook.com/canalrivertrustboating/
https://www.facebook.com/canalrivertrust
https://www.instagram.com/canalrivertrust/
https://twitter.com/canalrivertrust
The Annual Public Meeting of CRT’s South West Regional Advisory Board will take place on Zoom on Thursday 7th April 2022 at 5pm to 6pm. The meeting will end with a question and answer session. You can submit questions in advance by emailing them to enquiries.walessouthwest@canalrivertrust.org.uk before 4th April. You can also ask questions on the day.
CRT is holding an online Kennet and Avon User Forum on Thursday 4th November at 6pm-7pm. The second half of the session will be a question and answer session. If you have a question you can raise it on the day but CRT also asks people to submit questions by email beforehand no later than Wednesday 27th October. Questions can be sent to enquiries.walessouthwest@canalrivertrust.org.uk
CRT is to hold a virtual User Forum for Wales and South West region on Zoom on Wednesday 10th February at 5pm-7pm. This is an opportunity to raise issues that concern you, such as waterway maintenance, enforcement, and what CRT should be doing to protect liveaboard boaters during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
The K&A Boaters’ Action Group will be holding a telephone meeting on Monday 30th November 2020 at 7.30pm-9.30pm to discuss the current CRT consultation on changes to the Boat Licence Terms and Conditions. We are very concerned that the proposals will have serious implications for all boaters but especially for liveaboards.