The Canal & River Trust and West Midlands Police have joined forces to launch a new neighbourhood watch scheme on the region’s historic canal network. With more and more people working and living by the water, the Canal Watch scheme aims to promote a sense of community and encourage people to help ensure waterways remain…
Restoration of the Sankey Canal, Britain’s first industrial canal, has been given a major boost thanks to a new Sankey Canal Partnership, formally launched at a conference at St Helens World of Glass, on Wednesday 27 September. The Sankey Canal Restoration Society, the Canal & River Trust, plus St Helens, Warrington and Halton borough councils,…
The Canal & River Trust’s North Wales & Borders Partnership will be hosting its annual public showcase in Northwich on Friday 13 October – and everyone’s invited. The event spotlight falls on waterways in Cheshire, Shropshire, Powys, Denbighshire and Wrexham, and includes a chance to find out more about volunteering with the Trust or getting…
More than 5,000 visitors helped to celebrate the city’s waterways this weekend. Sheffield Waterfront Festival, the city’s biggest festival of its kind, was organised by waterway charity, the Canal & River Trust and Kelham Island Museum with support from the River Stewardship Company and coincided with this year’s global celebrations for World Rivers Day. The…
The Canal & River Trust is today publishing the list of sites it will be offering for winter moorings in 2017-18. The Trust is offering a range of winter mooring sites across the country so boaters can have as wide a choice as possible. There is a selection of sites near facilities, as well as…
One of Birmingham’s most interesting historic buildings is set to be brought back to life after being awarded a £2.5m National Lottery grant. The funding will enable a partnership of the Canal & River Trust and National Trust to revitalise the Grade II* listed Roundhouse into a city base from which to explore Birmingham’s famous…
A blow-up doll, golf buggies, pogo stick, flat screen TV and opened safes recovered from Britain’s canals and rivers as charity aims to highlight effect of dumped rubbish on nation’s waterways At an annual cost of £1 million to clean up after litter-happy Britons – from blow up dolls to shopping trolleys – the Canal…
The Rochdale Canal in Manchester’s city centre has been improved for both pedestrians and boaters with the installation of new and refurbished lock gates, and a large scale waterway clean up. Over the winter, the Canal & River Trust charity, which cares for 2,000 miles of the nation’s waterways, has been able to upgrade a…
Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey visited Birmingham yesterday to find out more about the vital role that local people are playing in helping to care for and promote the city’s famous network of canals. Dr Coffey met staff and volunteers from the Canal & River Trust, the charity that cares for 2,000 miles of the nation’s…
A historic sea lock on the Lancaster Canal at Glasson Dock is undergoing a five week refurbishment, thanks to a £33,000 winter works package by the Canal & River Trust. The charity, which cares for 2,000 miles of waterways, carries out an annual programme of restoration and repairs to the nation’s waterways during the winter…
