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Continued calls for government to offer energy support to all liveaboard boaters

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May 8, 2023

The Canal & River Trust is continuing to lobby the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), making the case that the Energy Bill Support Scheme needs to include all those living on boats. Together with the Inland Waterways Association, National Association of Boat Owners, Residential Boat Owners’ Association, Association of Waterway Cruising Clubs…
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Applying for energy payments in Buckinghamshire

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May 2, 2023

LIVEABOARD boaters in the Buckinghamshire Council area have until May 31 to apply for a £400 non-repayable energy payment through the Energy Bills Support Scheme. Residents on the following moorings can apply: Aylesbury; Soulbury Three Locks (Leisure); Marsworth (Towpath); Cooks Wharf (Pitstone); Seabrook Lock Leisure (Cheddington); Circus Field Basin (Aylesbury); College Road (Aston Clinton); Marlow…
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Escaping the rent trap – Millie, Dale and Ralph!

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Mark Lancaster

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August 15, 2021

Emergency Services worker Dale and Teaching Assistant Millie (both 26) were fed up working hard to pay someone else’s mortgage – ‘stuck in the rent trap’ Millie puts it. It wasn’t just the high rent that made this young couple seriously consider life on the cut, it was also not being able to decorate their…
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