Posts Tagged ‘children’
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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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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Sunday, November 29th, 2015
There will be a family-friendly festive get together for boaters on Saturday 12th December, 3pm-9pm, at the Love Lounge, The Bell Inn, Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BW. The event will include children’s activities, music, information and discussion about what to do if CRT has refused to renew your boat licence for 12 months. There will be time to socialise and sing a few sea shanties too.
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Tags: arts and culture, Bath, children, community, continuous cruising, enforcement, Events, liveaboards, music, sea shanties
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