🚨 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, […]
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 […]
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 14% on that already vastly inflated figure in 2024 – a […]
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: