Bargee Travellers are being encouraged to complete an NHS survey in order to alert GPs, hospitals and clinics to the barriers that we face gaining access to the health services all citizens are entitled to.
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The NBTA is run by volunteers and we need more volunteers!
There are currently six people on the NBTA Committee and we need more people to be involved in the day-to-day running of the NBTA. We are also getting some working groups together and are looking for people to get these going. Because of the itinerant, scattered nature of our community, much of the time the […]
All Star 45s to play at NBTA 10th Anniversary
We can announce that the All Star 45s will play rock and roll from the 50s to the 70s at the NBTA 10th Anniversary celebrations on 27th April at The Middle Floor, 23-25 Wharf St, Leeds LS2 7EQ*. The bar opens at 6.30pm; dance your socks off from 8pm! The 10th Anniversary also includes the […]
Boat dweller threatened with eviction. Urgent help needed
Certified gas engineer and boat dweller, Andrzei, has been given an eviction notice by the Canal and River Trust (CRT) and is under immediate threat of eviction. He is on the boat commonly called ‘the caravan boat’, which is a WW2 landing craft onto which he has skillfully welded and fixed a mobile home. He […]
CRT enforcement teams devolved to regions and more redundancies likely
Canal & River Trust (CRT) has restructured its enforcement team so that most enforcement staff (who were re-branded as Boat Licence Customer Support staff in 2017) are now managed by the regional directors, who were appointed following restructuring of the navigation authority in summer 2018.
NBTA publishes Best Practice Guide for Boat Dweller Accommodation Needs Assessments
The NBTA has today published the Best Practice Guide for Boat Dweller Accommodation Needs Assessments under Section 124 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
PADDINGTON PARTY, PROTEST, RALLY, AND FLOTILLA
The waterways have been changing but not always for the best; more places are having ‘no mooring’ or reduced mooring time signs slapped on them. There has been an ever increasing nibbling away of mooring spaces. Yet Canal & River Trust (CRT) has more plans for mooring restrictions, more ‘no mooring’ signs, more business moorings […]
CRT meetings for disabled boaters, 22nd and 26th March in Bradford-on-Avon and Leeds
Canal & River Trust (CRT) is to hold more meetings for disabled boaters. This is an opportunity to raise issues regarding accessibility; ‘reasonable adjustments’; CRT’s policy towards disabled Bargee Travellers; and whatever other issues concern people.
NBTA 10th Anniversary Celebration takes shape
The NBTA 10th Anniversary Celebration and General Meeting will be held at Middle Floor, 23-25 Wharf St, Leeds LS2 7EQ on Saturday 27th April 2019 from 11am to 11pm. Free entry, donations welcome.
Next NBTA Committee Meeting 10th March 2019 Reading
Members and Associate Members are all invited and encouraged to come to the next committee meeting of the NBTA on 10th March 2019 2pm – 5pm at the Fisherman’s Cottage, Kennetside, Reading, RG1 3HJ 10 minutes walk from the Station…. We are meeting in the alcove to the left of the front door. See you […]