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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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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May 27th, 2024
Boaters can apply for Pewsey Cost of Living Fund vouchers if they are in need of emergency food or have other urgent needs. If you know anyone who is in need please pass this message on to them.
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Tags: continuous cruising, cost of living, food bank, liveaboards, Pewsey Community Area Partnership, welfare
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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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May 27th, 2024
A new branch of the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is forming on the Kennet & Avon Canal! The first branch meeting will take place online on Monday 3rd June 2024 at 7pm. Come to the meeting to discuss and plan actions and support for liveaboard boaters locally!
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Tags: Bargee Traveller's Association, continuous cruising, liveaboards, meeting, online meeting
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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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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!
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Tags: arts and culture, Bathampton, continuous cruising, Floating Fayre, floating market, liveaboards, roving traders, The George Inn, traditional canal crafts
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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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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.
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Tags: Bath, Bradford-on-Avon, CRT, Dundas, litterpick, liveaboards, refuse disposal, towpath tidy
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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
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Tags: BANES Council, Bathampton, CRT, flytipping, refuse facilities, rubbish bins
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