Itinerant boaters have yet again become moving targets for CRT, this time with the excuse being financial – the weight of their budget shortfall is to be somehow paid for by surcharging the licence of boaters without home moorings an escalating amount which will increase by 25% the cost of licensing a boat without a […]
Ask CRT awkward questions at its online Public Meeting 1st November 12 noon
For members on Canal & River Trust (CRT) waterways, CRT is holding its Annual Public Meeting online on Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 12 noon. You can submit questions to CRT Chair David Orr and Chief Executive Richard Parry by emailing annualpublicmeeting@canalrivertrust.org.uk See https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/annual-report-and-accounts/annual-public-meeting-2023# to take part in the meeting.
NBTA LOOKING TO PAY AN ORGANISER
National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) is looking to pay someone to help coordinate local actions outside of London and find ways to involve people in the NBTA outside London. Here is our website :https://www.bargee-traveller.org.uk/ The aim of the job is to encourage more people inside the NBTA to organise themselves into local groups. The role […]
March on CRT’s offices! Stop the surcharge!
Canal and River Trust (CRT) which manages most of inland waterways in England and Wales are marginalising travelling boat dwellers by planning to levy a ‘surcharge’ to boaters for not having a home mooring. CRT are trying to destroy our nomadic way of life. Let’s come together to oppose the surcharge on our community. National […]
Stop Licence Discrimination Campaign News
Canal & River Trust (CRT), which manages most of the inland waterways in England and Wales, is marginalising travelling boat dwellers by planning to impose a ‘surcharge’ on boaters for not having a home mooring. CRT is trying to destroy our nomadic way of life. Let’s come together to oppose this surcharge on our community! […]
Call To Fight CRT’s Divisive Licence Fee Hikes
CRT have been putting up our licence fees over the last two years and they plan to further increase this over the next five years. Our licences went up 8% in 2022, 9% in 2023, and they now plan to put them up another 6% on that already vastly inflated figure in 2024 – an […]
What to do if you are still excluded from the Energy Bills Support Scheme
Many people remain excluded from the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS), despite the grant being promised to every household in the UK. You may still be excluded from the £400 EBSS Alternative Funding and £200 EBSS Alternative Fuels Payment if you:
Elmbridge Council to consult for a third time on anti-mooring PSPO
Earlier this year, Elmbridge Borough Council ran a consultation about bringing in a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to target so-called “unauthorised” mooring, barbecues, littering and night fishing on Council land along the River Thames. The outcome of the Green Spaces PSPO consultation was recently announced. Elmbridge has decided to bring in a PSPO that […]
Itinerant boat dwellers on CRT waters to get Energy Bills Support – deadline extended to Mon 28th Aug
UPDATE – The deadline to make sure your details are correct with CRT has been extended to Monday 28th August! After great efforts of NBTA and others campaigning for the energy grant, many itinerant boat dwellers on Canal & River Trust (CRT) waterways can now get £600 each! Amazing news for itinerant boaters ! The […]
Environment Agency consults on unregistered boat removal procedure 13 years after undertaking not to use powers without consultation: please give NBTA your views
In 2010, before the Environment Agency (EA) Inland Waterways Order 2010 became law, the NBTA made a legal challenge regarding the proposed power in Article 16 of the Order to remove boats if they are used as homes. In response to this, the EA made an Undertaking not to remove an unregistered residential vessel without […]