Canal and River Trust

  • Canal & River Trust Launches appeal to support small charities across its network

    Canal & River Trust Launches appeal to support small charities across its network

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    The Canal & River Trust has today, 5 May 2020, launched a fundraising appeal to help support the dozens of small waterway-based charities across its network which have been adversely impacted by the impacts of coronavirus. Launched on Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving and unity, the Waterway Charities Appeal will provide support for…

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  • Charity supports local people with canal-side crops

    Charity supports local people with canal-side crops

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    Waterways and wellbeing charity, Canal & River Trust, has donated young vegetable plants to local people living in Birmingham to enable them to grow their own produce during the Covid 19 lockdown. The plants, which were grown by Trust colleagues and volunteers with a view to them being planted along the Birmingham Canal Navigation in…

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  • Covid-19: An update from the Canal & River Trust

    Covid-19: An update from the Canal & River Trust

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    Following their message from last week, the Canal & River Trust’s response to this unprecedented Covid-19 crisis continues to evolve. They said: “Our priority is to support the national effort to keep people safe and fighting the pandemic, strictly following the Government’s advice. “Our 2,000-mile network of canals, towpaths, and river navigations remain open, but…

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  • Canal & River Trust: “Our response to coronavirus”

    Canal & River Trust: “Our response to coronavirus”

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    The Canal & River Trust have released a response in regards to the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK.  In these unprecedented times, our priority is to support the national effort to keep people safe, following the Government’s advice and taking the appropriate action to protect our colleagues and partners, and everyone who visits, or lives…

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