CRT to hold Users Forum in Bradford on Avon, 21st November
CRT is to hold its autumn K&A User Group Forum at St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on Avon BA15 1DE, on Wednesday 21st November 2018 from 6pm to 8pm. As CRT’s new regional structure gets under way,...
View ArticleBoat fire safety talk, Bradford on Avon, 8th November
There will be a Boat Fire Safety Talk at 7pm tomorrow, Thursday 8th November 2018 at the Lock Inn, Lower Wharf, Bradford on Avon. Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service will be giving...
View ArticleJoin us to hand in petition against closure of boaters’ rubbish bins, 21st...
Please join us to hand in the petition calling for CRT and Wadworths to re-instate the boaters’ rubbish bins at the Bridge Inn. Join us outside St Margaret’s Hall, Bradford on Avon BA15 1DE, on...
View ArticleBoat Fire Safety Talk, Devizes, this Tuesday 27th November
There will be a Boat Fire Safety presentation at the Black Horse, Bath Road, Devizes (between locks 47 and 48 on the Caen Hill flight) this Tuesday 27th November 2018 at 7pm. There will also be one on...
View ArticleJoin us at 9th January demo to hand in bin petition to Wadworths
On Wednesday 9th January 2019 at 12pm to 2pm there will be a demonstration outside Wadworths Brewery, 41-45 Northgate Street, Devizes SN10 1JW to hand in the petition calling for CRT and Wadworths to...
View ArticleMead Lane restriction proposals dropped
Following a consultation on a proposed ban on overnight vehicle parking at Mead Lane, Saltford in 2017, on 1st August 2018 BaNES Council released its decision to drop all proposed restrictions. The...
View ArticleEntire CRT Devizes office facing redundancy threat
Following CRT’s announcement on 6th November 2018 of up to 240 redundancies across its middle management roles, we can reveal that all the staff in the CRT Devizes office are facing possible...
View ArticleSecretive anti-liveaboard group set up by DEFRA – please write to your MP now!
A multi-agency working group on “residential houseboats” was set up by the DEFRA Inland Waterways Policy Land Use section over a year ago in December 2017, “tasked to look at the issue of illegally...
View ArticleWadworths make boaters an offer of new bins at Horton
Following the announcement that boaters would hand in the 400-signature petition to Wadworths Brewery in a demonstration on 9th January, Wadworths contacted one of the boaters who earlier complained...
View ArticleRiver Avon Users Consultative Committee to re-launch this month
The River Avon Users Consultative Committee (RAUCC) is to re-launch this month with an amended membership policy which the RUACC says is to ensure that meetings remain manageable and represent a...
View ArticleCRT meeting for disabled boaters, 26th March, Bradford on Avon
CRT is holding a meeting for disabled boaters on 26th March 2019 at 2pm at St Margaret’s Hall, St Margaret’s Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DA. This is an opportunity to raise issues regarding...
View ArticleLock 16 to open on 22nd March
CRT has today announced that Lock 16 at Semington will re-open to navigation on Friday 22nd March 2019 and 17.00 hours. This is sooner than the revised date of 2nd April that was announced on 27th...
View ArticleEuro election? You can vote without a fixed address – register by May 7th if...
Elections to the European Parliament will take place in the UK on May 23rd except in the very unlikely event that agreement on a Brexit deal is reached among MPs before 22 May. If you live on a boat...
View ArticleK&A User Group Forum, 5th June, Bradford on Avon
There will be a Kennet and Avon Canal User Group Forum on Wednesday 5th June 2019 between 6pm and 8pm at St Margaret’s Hall, St Margaret’s Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DE. If you wish to raise any...
View ArticlePublic meeting: District Enforcement activities in Reading, 21st May
We have received the message below from the National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA). There will be a public meeting to discuss the activities of District Enforcement in Reading on Tuesday 21st...
View ArticleLong serving K&A maintenance manager made redundant
We have discovered that one of the longest serving members of CRT’s bankside staff has just been made redundant. Dale Marshall, who has worked for BW and CRT for 37 years, is to lose his job in August...
View ArticleGovernment consultation on Home Education – ends 24th June 2019
The Department for Education is carrying out a consultation on setting up a compulsory registration and monitoring scheme of children who are educated at home or not in mainstream schools. It closes on...
View ArticleBoaters’ Cafe Club tomorrow 2nd July at Dundas, 11am – 3pm
The Boaters’ Cafe Club outreach boat Litania will be at Dundas Basin tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd July 2019 from 11am to 3pm. There will be free hot and cold drinks, snacks and lunch for those who need it,...
View ArticlePost Office service returns to Bathampton – comments invited until 16th July
Post Office services will be restored in Bathampton with effect from 23rd July 2019 with the introduction of Hosted Outreach services. Bathampton Hosted Service will operate from 25 Cafe, 25 Holcombe...
View ArticleRegional Director Richard Thomas leaves CRT after just one year
A meeting between K&A liveaboard boaters and CRT’s Regional Director Richard Thomas has been cancelled because Mr Thomas “no longer works for the Trust”, it emerged today, 8th July 2019. The...
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