BOATERS from far and wide are invited to enjoy an exciting cruise in 2022 across the Pennine hills exploring the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and travelling
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Vaccine firm volunteers help with canal projects
STAFF from pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca in Cheshire are just a few of the dozens of volunteers working with the Canal & River Trust this winter
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Second national award for waterways volunteer
WEST Yorkshire volunteer Cath Munn has received a second national award for her outstanding contribution to Canal & River Trust waterways in the Yorkshire and
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New pumps installed at Gloucester Docks
TWO large three-ton pumps have been installed by the Canal & River Trust at Gloucester Pumping Station in the docks. The new energy efficient pumps
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CONSULTATION ON MANAGING MOORING SPACE IN INNER LONDON
The Canal & River Trust is inviting boaters and local stakeholders to take part in a consultation on ways to improve the management of mooring
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Open days: See repairs in action, visit the bottom of a lock…
5th February – Grindley Brook, Llangollen Canal in ShropshireCarrying out repairs to locks 1, 2 and 6 – some of the busiest locks on the
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Leicester’s waterways – the potential to be unlocked with new partnership!
The Canal & River Trust is bringing together businesses, community groups and local authority departments in Leicester to help make the city’s waterways better for
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RESTORATION OF HISTORIC CHESHIRE CANAL FOOTBRIDGE WINS ENGINEERING AWARD
The Canal & River Trust waterways and wellbeing charity has won a major engineering award for its sympathetic restoration of a historic Grade II Listed
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Who left the lock open?
WHILE walking along a section of the Kennet & Avon Canal to Devizes recently, Towpath Talk contributor Kevin Thomas came upon Lock 25 standing wide
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Let there be light! Towpath walking routes now lit…
Waterways and wellbeing charity, Canal & River Trust, working in partnership with the City of Wolverhampton Council, has installed solar-powered lights along the canals in
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BOAT LICENCE FEES FOR 2022-23
The Canal & River Trust is today announcing that headline private and business boat licence fees will rise by 4% from 1 April 2022. Income
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Canal & River Trust publishes its 2020/21 Annual Report
Canal & River Trust has today (28 October) published its 2020/21 Annual Report & Accounts which document a year dominated by Covid-19, from the pandemic’s
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CANAL & RIVER TRUST TO RECEIVE OVER £1.4M FOR MAJOR WORKS FROM GOVERNMENT’S HERITAGE STIMULUS FUND
The Canal & River Trust, the national waterways and wellbeing charity, has been awarded over £1.4 million in funding for seven major heritage projects across
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Charity to improve towpath along the Llangollen Canal
Waterways and wellbeing charity, Canal & River Trust, has begun work to improve a section of towpath along the Llangollen Canal for the thousands of
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