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Towpath tidy as part of Leeds Year of Volunteering Leeds canal clean-up Volunteers helped to tidy the Leeds waterfront towpath behind the Royal Armouries
Photograph: John Baron/guardian.co.uk A handful of volunteers have cut back overhanging bushes, pulled out weeds and tidied the waterfront towpath in Leeds city centre. Environment Agency volunteers and . . . → Read More: Leeds volunteers clean-up waterfront What You Can Do Volunteers add value to British Waterways in an amazing number of ways and this is only going to increase. There is more to volunteering on our waterways then picking up litter and restoring locks, read below for a flavour of opportunities with British Waterways. Tasks generally break down into the following . . . → Read More: Volunteering: What You Can Do – British Waterways Droitwich was one of the first places to benefit from the canal building boom The 37-year campaign by the Droitwich Canals Trust to restore the canal has been praised by British Waterways. The restoration of the town’s Barge Canal is due for completion in 2010. The opening of the short linking Junction Canal in 2011 . . . → Read More: The Droitwich Canals Trust is praised for its work The Kennet Avon Canal Trust News Friday, 16 July 2010 Almost 200 years to the day that it was first opened, 20 years since the navigation was opened once more, and 10 years after the hugely successful Lottery supported restoration project, the Kennet & Avon Canal could soon reclaim its status as a fully-fledged, working . . . → Read More: Kennet & Avon Canal Cruises Into The Future Friday, 9 July 2010 The Erewash Valley trail project is a partnership involving British Waterways, the Local & County Councils and various other interested parties to deliver £520,000 of environmental improvements during 2010/11. This includes the formation of walking & cycling trails as well as benefits to wildlife and encouraging healthy living and connecting local . . . → Read More: Erewash Valley Sustrans Rangers Extract from Parliamentary Debate on Inland Waterways The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Richard Benyon): I congratulate the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Tristram Hunt) on securing this debate. After such a tense afternoon in the Chamber, it is nice to be able to find a subject on which there . . . → Read More: Parliament Debate on Future of Waterways Thankfully, crime hot spots on BW’s 2,200 miles of waterways are relatively rare, but where they exist, they can make lives of boat owners and towpath users very unpleasant. There is no national waterways security service, so we’re all dependent on support from local police forces. Crime mapping is an important tool used to help . . . → Read More: Waterway crime stoppers |
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