NBTA Advice on Applications for the Energy Bills Support Scheme – Alternative Funding (EBSS-AF) and Alternative Fuel Payment (AFP) INTERIM UPDATE The Energy Bills Support Scheme – Alternative Funding (EBSS-AF) system may go live this week in the pilot areas of Wrexham, Chichester, Glasgow and West Sussex, with a full nationwide roll-out anticipated before mid-February. […]
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NBTA Still Campaigning for Energy Bills Support for Itinerant Boaters
As the temperature drops again and Parliament breaks for their winter recess, the NBTA is continuing to campaign hard to make sure that itinerant liveaboard boaters are included in the government’s Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding (EBSS-AF). Many within our community have been deeply anxious about keeping their boats warm this winter in the […]
Energy Bills Support Scheme – an Update for Concerned Boaters
National Bargee Travellers Association STATEMENT 9th December 2022 ENERGY BILLS SUPPORT SCHEME: AN UPDATE FOR CONCERNED BOATERS Over the past few months, there has been a lot of understandable confusion and anxiety within our community over the situation regarding boaters’ access to financial assistance during the UK’s ongoing fuel and cost-of-living crisis. We at the […]
Energy Bills Support Scheme – still no definite answers for itinerant households
The NBTA has been working with Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) to try to get the promises made by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the spring about the Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) to apply equally to itinerant boat dwellers and Travellers on land alike. It has been […]
Notes on Geo-Location
Postcodes come as “areas” (eg RGx xxx), “districts” (eg RG1 xxx), “sectors” (eg RG1 2xx) and “full postcodes” (eg RG1 2ST). There are various ways to work out a full postcode from your location. 1 If you know the address of a house or business near-by, you can use the Royal Mail website https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode to […]
Do the Census !!
The 2021 Census takes place this weekend. The NBTA has been involved in detailed discussions with Iain Bell, the Deputy National Statistician at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to iron out problems and get the process to work for itinerant boat dwellers. Members of the NBTA Committee made some “Secret Shopper” calls to the […]
Covid-19 Advice from the Environment Agency – EA lifts Mooring Restrictions
From: Environment Agency Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 15:21 Subject: Environment Agency Navigations – COVID-19 update Dear Customer These are unprecedented times and here at the Environment Agency we have been working hard to make sure our response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic follows Government advice, in the best interests of the health of […]
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 […]
NBTA North Group Up-and-running
Following a successful meeting in Leeds on 15-11-2015 live-aboard boaters across the north of England decided to set up National Bargee Travellers Association North. Enforcement against boaters without home moorings on CRTs northern waterways has been particularly draconian. Many boaters who attended the meeting commented that they had very little information about what rights they […]
Voting without a residential address
The 2015 general election is less than two months away. If you want to vote, itinerant boat dwellers without a fixed address can register by declaring a local connection. You can download the form below. You can use it to register anywhere in the UK. Electoral Registration Generic NFA The registration process changed in 2014 and […]