A GROUP of volunteers that help to clear rubbish from Loughborough’s waterways say they’ve been overwhelmed by the response to their appeal for more people
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Category: Volunteering
Help us find our Top Team for 2019!
IT is that time of year again when we ask our readers to take some time to consider who might deserve our prestigious Towpath Talk
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Andrew Bridgen MP meets local volunteers who keep Sawley Locks moving
IWA Parliamentarian of the Year Andrew Bridgen MP recently visited Sawley Lock to meet the local volunteers that work alongside the Canal & River Trust
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Canal volunteers tackle nuisance invasive weed on Leicestershire’s waterways
VOLUNTEERS have been helping the Canal & River Trust to tackle a nuisance invasive weed on Leicestershire’s waterways. The volunteers have been helping the Trust,
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Lancaster Canal Bicentenary community action call
GET involved in discovering Lancaster Canal’s hidden gems – this is the call from a new project officer who has been appointed to promote the
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Loughborough campaign against pollution
A GROUP of community-minded volunteers in Loughborough are looking for people to join their crusade against rubbish and plastics in the town’s waterways. The group,
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Waterways volunteer groups launch Brindley 250 campaign
A RECENT membership drive launched by The Inland Waterways Association’s Warwickshire Branch, brought together IWA branch members, local canal restoration group, Old Mortonians and also
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What could your community do with £5000?
RURAL communities off the mains gas grid have until Monday April 29 to submit their applications to the Calor Rural Community Fund, for a chance
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Community garden launched on Rochdale Canal
THE Canal & River Trust and volunteers from the local community have joined forces to create the first urban orchard and wildflower garden on the
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Restoration groups meet in Wolverhampton
MARCH 30 saw over 40 different restoration societies and 116 individuals come together in Wolverhampton for the seventh annual Canal Restoration Conference jointly hosted by
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Back in business
THE work of Shropshire Union Canal Society Volunteers on the Montgomery Canal near Crickheath will move on to Phase 2 in May – 300m –
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Hedgelaying boosts Montgomery Canal wildlife
DORMICE, squirrels, birds and other wildlife along the Montgomery Canal are being given a major habitat boost thanks to a hedgerow-laying project organised by waterway
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Volunteer surveyor sought for Montgomery Canal restoration
THE chairman of an organisation supporting the restoration of the Montgomery Canal is appealing for volunteers to come forward to help with surveying and engineering
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Baldwin Trust appeals for volunteers
By Les Heath AFTER a successful campaign to fund a new community narrowboat the Leicestershire-based Baldwin Trust has hit a major, unexpected problem –
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