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  • From revival to ruin? IWA presses CRT over delays on Wendover Arm

    From revival to ruin? IWA presses CRT over delays on Wendover Arm

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    The Inland Waterways Association is actively campaigning to resolve the ongoing issues affecting the Wendover Arm, following significant delays and restrictions imposed on its restoration. For many years, the Wendover Canal Trust has led extensive work to restore the previously dry section of the Wendover Arm between Little Tring and Drayton Beauchamp. This has included…

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  • Campaign Cruise on ‘The Danny’ Celebrates IWA’s 80th Anniversary and Champions The River Weaver

    Campaign Cruise on ‘The Danny’ Celebrates IWA’s 80th Anniversary and Champions The River Weaver

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    The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) marked its 80th anniversary of campaigning for Britain’s waterways with a special cruise aboard the historic SS Daniel Adamson affectionately known as “The Danny”, on Friday 12 June.  The event celebrated eight decades of IWA’s work to protect, restore and promote the nation’s inland waterways, while also shining a spotlight on…

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  • Calls grow for residential boaters to be recognised in housing and planning policy

    Calls grow for residential boaters to be recognised in housing and planning policy

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    Thousands of people make their homes on Britain’s canals and rivers, but many residential boaters say they face mounting barriers to healthcare, basic services and legal security, with campaigners warning that unclear rights and patchy recognition are leaving a significant community exposed. PRESSURE is growing on ministers to confront what campaigners describe as a blind…

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  • AWARDS for those working to keep waterways alive

    AWARDS for those working to keep waterways alive

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    The IWA’s 66th annual general meeting at the Jubilee Conference Centre, Nottingham, welcomed more than 100 attendees in person and online – and also celebrated waterways excellence through the presentation of awards. IWA’s Amy Tillson reports… NATIONAL chair Mike Wills opened the event, followed by campaigns and public affairs director Charlie Norman outlining campaigning priorities…

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  • LOCK CLOSURE forces more lorries onto Yorkshire’s roads

    LOCK CLOSURE forces more lorries onto Yorkshire’s roads

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    THE Inland Waterways Association (IWA) has said the Canal & River Trust’s plan to close Sykehouse Lock, on the New Junction Canal, near Thorne, South Yorkshire, from November 3 to December 19 for bottom and top gate repairs is excessive and disregards the impact on navigation and businesses.   The six-week duration of the intended closure…

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  • IWA Calls on Government to Back Green Future for Britain’s Leisure Boaters

    IWA Calls on Government to Back Green Future for Britain’s Leisure Boaters

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    The Inland Waterways Association (IWA), through its Sustainable Boating Group, has made a Submission to the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) Call for Evidence on Decarbonising Smaller Vessels. It has looked at propulsion and the use of domestic energy on leisure boats. The Group has a clear strategy to decarbonise this sector, so a submission has…

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  • SAVING ENERGY on boat heating

    SAVING ENERGY on boat heating

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    IT IS usually said that a typical narrowboat needs about 2kW to keep it comfortable in cold weather, although more is obviously needed to heat it initially. Energy (and therefore cost) can be saved by reducing losses, utilising waste heat and/or installing a more efficient system. Malcolm Bridge, IWA Sustainable Boating Group, gives us more…

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  • WATERWAY RESTORATION conference a success

    WATERWAY RESTORATION conference a success

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    THE Annual Waterway Restoration Conference at the National Waterways Museum was jointly organised by IWA and Canal & River Trust. IWA’s Amy Tillson reports… A packed audience attended this event, held at the historic venue at Ellesmere Port on April 26. Special thanks go to the excellent speakers and compere who made the conference inspiring…

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  • IWA urges ‘joined-up’ thinking in water review

    IWA urges ‘joined-up’ thinking in water review

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    THE IWA has submitted a response to the Call for Evidence issued by the Independent Water Commission. The commission was launched by the UK and Welsh Governments in October 2024 and is chaired by Sir Jon Cunliffe, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England. It is tasked with carrying out the largest review…

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  • HELP COMPILE a national picture of waterways heritage

    HELP COMPILE a national picture of waterways heritage

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    IWA’s Amy Tillson reports… IWA’s Heritage Advisory Panel aims to safeguard and publicise the extraordinary national heritage asset that our waterways network represents. To aid public and governmental awareness of this, the group is compiling a ‘risk list’ of significant waterways heritage items that are endangered for whatever reason – for instance neglect, dereliction, insensitive…

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  • IWA Canalway Cavalcade 2025

    IWA Canalway Cavalcade 2025

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    IWA Canalway Cavalcade returns to London’s Little Venice on Saturday, May 3, for the full Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Each year the best of life on the waterways in London and its community is celebrated at IWA Canalway Cavalcade. There’s something for everyone at this vibrant canal festival in the heart of London’s waterways.…

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  • CRUISE IT or lose it?

    CRUISE IT or lose it?

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    BOATERS are being urged to get cruising to the farthest parts of the UK waterway network as part of a challenge to keep waterways open. The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) Silver Propeller Challenge aims to get cruisers out to some of the least-visited places on the canal and river network. The IWA believes by visiting…

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  • GREY HAIR: Too much on the canal?

    GREY HAIR: Too much on the canal?

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    Phil Pickin poses a question that many groups associated with the waterways grapple with… what to do to overcome an ageing membership. DURING the IWA’s recent AGM in Leicester, the issue of membership came up. This was not unexpected, and the subject wasn’t discussed simply out of a desire to increase the number of IWA…

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  • LICHFIELD BRANCH: Winter vegetation management

    LICHFIELD BRANCH: Winter vegetation management

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    Amy Tillson Reports… Recently, IWA Lichfield Branch’s intrepid team of volunteers began their seventh consecutive year of winter vegetation management. This year they have been given a variety of tasks in addition to the usual cutting back of the overgrown vegetation. Repainting bridge names and numbers, removing ivy and other such growth from bridges and…

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