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In Parliament on December 13th 2011, Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central, Labour asked the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average percentage change in basic salary was for: (a) directors, (b) the lowest paid member of staff and (c) the median salaried member of staff at British Waterways in the latest period . . . → Read More: British Waterways Pay: Question in Parliament Monday, 28 February 2011 Government statement on transfer of state-owned waterways into new waterways charity The Government has today announced its preference for a phased transfer of state-owned waterways in England and Wales into the planned new waterway charity, with British Waterways’ canals and rivers moving in 2012 and the Environment Agency (EA) navigations moving . . . → Read More: BW Waterways to Charity in 2012 – EA Navigations in 2015 Future of the Public Forest Estate – Myths busted by DEFRA Published on Sunday 30 January 2011 at 3:03pm The myth: Several Sunday newspapers are inaccurately reporting that the costs of the managing heritage forests will double if they pass into control of charitable trusts, and that there are no guarantees concerning future access to . . . → Read More: Future of the Public Forest Estate – DEFRA busts myths One of the targeted victims of the Coalition’s quango cull is the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) which has produced a number of worthwhile studies in support of the inland waterways over the past several years. As part of the same cull, the government has decided it wants to turn British Waterways into a charity . . . → Read More: Lords express concern about abolishing IWAC Defra has today announced that its grant to British Waterways next year will be £41.5m. This is a reduction of £9.8m (or 19%) from the 2010/11 baseline grant of £51.3m. Given that Government funding makes up approximately half of the net spend on the waterways, this will translate into an effective cut of resource available . . . → Read More: Waterways Funding Cuts Announced Thursday 14 October 2010 Louise Nousratpour of LifeStyle reports that: A government decision to turn British Waterways into a charity could threaten the future of the country’s network of canals and its vital work in flood prevention, unions warned today. Under wider plans to cull nearly 200 quangos, the government decided to move the body . . . → Read More: Union says BW Charity Plan Spells Disaster The website Third Sector reports on the new British Waterways charity: Robin Evans, CEO of British Waterways – “We’ve wanted this for ages”
The largest new arrival in the charity sector from the public sector – the English and Welsh arm of British Waterways – is looking forward to a brave new . . . → Read More: Who wants to be a charity? 21/10/2010 The British Marine Federation (BMF), which represents over 1,400 members who employ more than 35,000 people in the UK marine industry, has broadly supported the plans to convert British Waterways into a new waterways charity (NWC). The BMF believes that the Government must ensure the future of our waterways for users and those businesses . . . → Read More: BMF supports new waterway charity but… Tuesday 19 October 2010 16.30 BST From Martin Wainwright in the Guardian: British Waterways set on course its own abolition before last week’s quango cull, writes Martin Wainwright If there was one chirrup from the government’s bonfire of the quangos last week, it will have come from British Waterways, which has been pressing for its . . . → Read More: Making the cut on Britain’s canals 20th Oct 2010 Against the backdrop of forthcoming major budget cuts to publicly-funded waterways, a conference planned by AINA – the Association of Inland Navigation Authorities – will address in particular, the Government’s decision to transfer the waterways in England and Wales which are cared for by British Waterways to a new charitable body – . . . → Read More: AINA conference to focus on future for inland waterways |
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