Users now Online

Page 1 of 41234
Council Candidates | Private Boating

WILTSHIRE, Richard - Private Boating

My name is Richard Wiltshire. I am looking for your support for my nomination to the CRT. I have been involved with the waterways system for many years, through work and pleasure, and therefore have a vested interest in ensuring their protection. There are many changes taking place within our waterways and hopefully through our combined efforts we will produce something which can be enjoyed and protected for the future. My aim is to contribute to preserving the waterways for all, whatever our pastimes or hobbies. Walkers, boaters or fishermen appreciate the rivers and canals and all have a responsibility to contribute to their survival. With your support I can voice any concerns that you have about the changes and help to shape the future of our waterways. I attend various committee meetings related to the protection and preservation of the River Severn and offer my support as and when necessary. . . . → Read More: WILTSHIRE, Richard – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

WELCH, Vaughan - Private Boating

I have more than forty years boating experience, a long-standing IWA Trustee specifically responsible for supporting waterway restoration, Droitwich Canals Trust Chairman and a successful hard working waterways campaigner. With your support I hope to:

  • Establish primacy for boating
  • Prevent navigation being subsumed by other waterway interested bodies
  • Stop the spiralling costs of boating
  • Seek internal and external cost reductions
  • Reduce ‘top heavy’ Management costs
  • Establish salaries equivalent to ‘like’ charities
  • Develop a proper dredging programme
  • Improve vegetation management
  • Increase provision and improve essential boaters facilities
  • Prevent closures
  • Seek network expansion
  • Re-establish the Right of Navigation
  • Establish opening hours to suit the users
  • Compensate for long term closures
  • Encourage residential boating
  • Legitimize those who have chosen the waterways as their home
  • Establish security of tenure
  • Develop measures to enable all levels of society’s participation in traditional boating activities

I do hope I can count on your support. . . . → Read More: WELCH, Vaughan – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

VINNICOMBE, Alf - Private Boating

I have owned a boat on the Birmingham-Worcester Canal for the past 33 years. I worked for 5 years in a Boat Build and Hire Company in Alvechurch and I am passionate about our waterways and the environment. My main concern is the ever-increasing cost of owning and running a pleasure craft, and if elected to Council, my mandate will be to ensure that NO boater will be priced off the water. British Waterways have done a good job, and the momentous task that the Trust faces will not be easy, especially with the dark black financial clouds that the country has forecast. Within the boating community, boat clubs, volunteer groups, etc, every encouragement must be given to nurture the enthusiasm they have. I wish to carry on enjoying the waterways and for you to do the same. . . . → Read More: VINNICOMBE, Alf – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

SMETHAM, Tony - Private Boating

I am a 51-year-old CC liveaboard and have been an active member of London Boaters for the past year or so. London Boaters is becoming a pioneer of community-based provision of services and facilities for boaters (e.g. moorings, boaters’ credit union). I believe that this could serve as a template for use in other areas, and fits in well with the local partnership model embodied in the CRT structure. There is a view that the canal network is a scarce commodity with competition for resources between leisure and residential users. Our research showed this not to be the case, and that a vibrant residential community actually encourages leisure users to make better use of the canals. I will work to promote the use of the waterways to maximise the benefit for all users. I am independent of all organisations representing boaters. . . . → Read More: SMETHAM, Tony – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

SCOTT, Peter - Private Boating

Council will “help to shape policy”: We need policies that:

  • keep our waterways open and measure openness from one year to the next
  • harass Management into improving availability; and reverse their creeping closures which restrict navigation – eg eleven day May closure for Oxford Canal bridge demolition; four-days-per week closure at Standedge Tunnel; 4pm daily closure Newlay to Leeds
  • get more boats, more moving boats, on our underused waterways
  • persuade the non-navigation majority of Council that while their interests could be served by a series of disconnected duck ponds, we all need open, used, connected, navigations

I’m Chairman of IWA Northeast and Yorkshire and do a thousand boating miles each year across the whole connected system. More thoughts at http://tinyurl.com/scott-yorks. . . . → Read More: SCOTT, Peter – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

SCOTT, Robert - Private Boating

My love affair with the inland waterways began on a hire boat in 1974. After a number of family holidays on the rivers and canals I have now reached the stage where I am a boat owner and Boatmaster. Over the past 6 years I have had the good fortune to be able to spend more and more time travelling around the country on the water. Experiencing the state of the system first hand, I worry that the next generation will not be able to travel the system as I have done. Maintaining and improving the system for all boaters is my top priority whether they be hirers, private owners or commercial operators, residential or continuous cruisers. Whilst I am a member of several charities and societies, I have no vested interest in the waterways other than as a boater. Please give me your vote. . . . → Read More: SCOTT, Robert – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

RUDD, Stephen - Private Boating

RUDD, STEPHEN

The navigations of the UK are a resource to be treasured and maintained so that they can be enjoyed both now and in the future. Regrettably, the quality of maintenance achieved in the past by BW has been disappointing resulting in the navigations deteriorating rather than improving. BW didn’t always use its resources . . . → Read More: RUDD, Stephen – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

ROPER, Paul - Private Boating

ROPER, PAUL

I have boated for years and been an owner for 11. I’m an IWA Trustee and Chairman of their Navigation Committee which campaigns for boaters. I have been the principal lead for IWA’s response to the government’s CRT proposals. My primary concern, should you elect me, is to ensure that from the outset . . . → Read More: ROPER, Paul – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

ROBERTSON, Iain - Private Boating

Location: Glasgow 25 years, Inverness-shire 8 years, Berwickshire 9 years, Edinburgh 4 years, Isle of Arran 20 years, Nottingham 7 years. Work: National Service RAMC 2 years, paper manufacturing 15 years, publisher of photography based tourism products 15 years, operator of seaside caravan/camp site, shop, restaurant, golf course, 22 years. Leisure: Scouting, rugby, golf, B&B operation, travel, cruiser, m/cycle. Skills: Management, problem solving, planning, marketing, photography, DIY, IT. Waterways: In August 2011 203 miles single-handed cruiser voyage provided very considerable user understanding of the good and the bad of our canal system. Contribution: My exceptionally wide tourism and service involvements combined with this recent boating experience generate many ideas and opinions that could be utilised in the determination of positive policies, planning, and marketing, towards the betterment of the canal system. Retired, fit and mobile, I look forward to being of service. . . . → Read More: ROBERTSON, Iain – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Council Candidates | Private Boating

PINFIELD, Bob - Private Boating

I have been boating on the River Severn for over 30 years, travelling up and down most weeks of the summer months. Been treasurer of 2 yacht clubs & committee member. Currently Chairman of Cookmill Parish Council (20 yrs+). Member of Wychavon Standards Committee & an R.Y.A Instructor. Understand budgeting, precepts, accounts, sales & marketing, wages and spreadsheets. I run a small family business in Worcester (30 yrs), with my wife & son. I wish to join the CRT as I have the knowledge (as a boater) and experience gained over many years to give the new Trust. . . . → Read More: PINFIELD, Bob (Robert) – Private Boating CRT Candidate

Page 1 of 41234