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Tameside Radio report that British Waterways and Tesco have launched regular clean-ups of the canal in Stalybridge as part of a drive to breathe new life into Stalybridge town centre. Attracting boaters and visitors to the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, which passes through the town centre, is seen as a crucial part of the plans drawn up . . . → Read More: Monthly clean-up for canal – News Article
The team on the boat at BW's Caen Hill yard ready to begin the refurbishment: ©Bob Naylor Waterway volunteers will be recognised in the Waterways Renaissance Awards for the first time this year — and a group on the Kennet & Avon Canal have reached the finals of the award. The Devizes-based Avon . . . → Read More: Kennet & Avon Canal Volunteering Renaissance Volunteers get £28m and the job of cleaning up England’s waterways 04 February 2012 Defra has created a £28m Catchment Restoration Fund to fund volunteers who want to reduce pollution in rivers and canals. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has created a £28m Catchment Restoration Fund to fund volunteers who want . . . → Read More: Volunteers get £28m and the job of cleaning up England’s waterways 18 January 2012 The Canal & River Trust (CRT), the charity which takes over British Waterways’ responsibility for 2,000 miles of waterways in England & Wales in April 2012, is today (Monday 16 January) calling on local communities in accross the country to get involved in a unique opportunity that will see them carry out . . . → Read More: Public invited to ‘unlock’ iconic waterway role 9th Jan 2012 An appeal has been launched to restore a historic canal boat at Stourport Canal Basins. The Bramble was donated by British Waterways to local group Stourport Forward. Volunteers from Stourport Forward plan to refurbish the Bramble so that it can be used for education and possibly boat trips. Some of the volunteers . . . → Read More: Help save historic canal boat in Stourport 19 October 2011 Local volunteers are being called upon to help make the Coventry Canal a cleaner, greener place to visit by taking part in a canal clean-up. Potential volunteers are being encouraged to give up just a few hours on Make a Difference Day on 29th October to help make the canal a more . . . → Read More: Volunteers needed to ‘make a difference’ on Coventry Canal 19th Oct 2011 Two upcoming volunteering days are asking people in Ealing, London, and Coventry, West Midlands, to help clean up their local canal. Make a Difference Day on the Coventry Canal and the British Waterways volunteer work party on the Hanwell Lock Flight, Grand Union Canal are both aimed at improving the local canal . . . → Read More: Volunteers wanted in Ealing and Coventry 20 September 2011 The new waterways charity that will become the guardian of the canals and rivers in England and Wales from April next year is recruiting people to chair the Waterways Partnerships that will help shape the future of the waterways in each of the partnership areas. The role of each Partnership is to . . . → Read More: Chair people sought for Waterways Partnerships 14th Jul 2011 British Waterways (BW) has agreed a new partnership with the Staffordshire & West Midlands Probation Trust to pilot a project which will help improve areas on the West Midlands canal network. The partnership will see offenders sentenced to Community Payback working on a range of tasks to improve canals in Birmingham, Walsall, . . . → Read More: Offenders give back on West Midlands canals Anti-social behaviour | Canal & River Trust | Volunteering | Waterway Communities | Waterway News | Waterway Politics In an article “The Big Society Cruises up Yorkshire’s Canals’, Len Tingle, Political Editor in Yorkshire suggests that it might come as a surprise to some that one of the first chunks of “big government” being taken over by the Big Society will be our 200 year old canal network. As most waterways supporters know, . . . → Read More: The Big Society cruises up canals |
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