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National Bargee Travellers Association

Welcome to the National Bargee Travellers Association

The NBTA is a member-led organisation of travelling boat dwellers –“Bargee Travellers” – and their supporters. We encourage our community to take action for the interests of the community as a whole. The NBTA provides support and advice to people whose home is a boat without a permanent mooring, throughout Britain’s inland and coastal waterways. We believe in mutual solidarity through our casework and campaigning. The NBTA acts to defend the legal rights of members and engages in lobbying to advance the interests of itinerant live-aboard boaters at both central and local government levels.

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LATEST NEWS

The Easter Regatta in the face of the Surcharge

We will keep fighting the discriminatory licence fee ‘surcharge’

Please write to your MP to stop the discriminatory surcharge!

STOP THE CRT BOAT CULL IN LONDON

Risk assessment confirms River Lee ‘no mooring’ zones are not necessary

CRT up to its old tricks again

Historical Moorings on the River Lee Contradict CRT ‘Water Safety Zone’ Claim

 

The Boaters’ Easter Regatta, 30th March 2024

Easter Regatta protest outside CRT’s office, Little Venice, London

 

 

The march in protest against the CRT licence surcharge for boats without a home mooring, Birmingham, 25th November 2023

Boaters protest against the surcharge, Hungerford, Kennet and Avon Canal, 27th January 2024

 

The Energy Grant flotilla heads to London, 26th May 2023. Photo: Dave Marshall

 

The Boaters’ Spring Fayre in protest against the River Lea mooring restrictions, 14th May 2023.  Photo: NBTA London