🚨 Elmbridge Council has proposed a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to stop boaters from mooring along the Thames for more than 24 hours or face £400 fines. This threatens to DESTROY the livelihood of the local boating community. Many responsible residents live harmoniously on their boats in the area while maintaining jobs, raising children, […]
Author: Marcus Trower
NBTA VOLUNTEER CASEWORKERS ARE MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER!
National Bargee Travellers Association (NBTA) will be holding online training courses for Volunteer Caseworkers to join our dedicated team. There are three sessions within the training course. They are on January 23rd & 30th and February 6th 🗓 NBTA Caseworkers help boaters to deal with enforcement by navigation or other authorities. They assist them to […]
Boaters marched in Birmingham!
Huge thank you to everyone who came to the National Demo in Birmingham on Saturday! We had an amazing day and a fantastic turnout – over one hundred boaters joined us to march on CRT’s offices against the licence fee surcharge. There was a great contingent of boats with banners. Brilliant pictures below! Big thanks […]
LICENCE DISCRIMINATION: The Canal & River Trust’s plan to eradicate a whole way of life!
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 […]
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 […]
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 14% on that already vastly inflated figure in 2024 – a […]
Help get the word out!
We need as many people as possible on CRT waterways to fill in the survey to show CRT we will not let them price us off the waterways. We’ve been getting the word out there across the waterways about CRT’s latest survey which tries to pit boater against boater to price many of us out […]
Don’t let CRT price us off the water! Consultation deadline 6th April
Canal & River Trust (CRT) has produced a consultation survey in which they ask boaters whether people without home moorings should pay higher licence fees than people with home moorings, as well as other leading and divisive questions. CRT planning to increase the boat licence by more than the rate of inflation is abhorrent, especially […]
Boaters’ Spring Fayre, 14th May
Boaters’ Spring Fayre Next to the Clapton S Bend in Hackney Ain’t No Party like an S Bend Party! We are proud to announce the Boaters’ Spring Fayre community event on Sunday 14th May 2023 starting at 12 noon in defence and celebration of our way of life. […]