Welcome to the National Bargee Travellers Association
The National Bargee Travellers Association (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
£100 fines for staying more than 24 hours – help us get rid of new Elmbridge PSPO
London healthy waterways survey extended to 1st August
Keele University survey on liveaboard boaters’ access to healthcare
NBTA supports the Thames lock and weir keepers’ struggle for safe staffing levels
Please respond to Government consultation on decarbonising smaller vessels, deadline 25th July 2025
Join us for s summer of protest leafleting!
NBTA evidence to CRT Commission to review boat licensing
Please write to your MP about the CRT Licence Review and Surcharge
Petition against the surcharge, please sign and share!
STOP THE CRT BOAT CULL IN LONDON
Resist the payable moorings in central London!
Risk assessment confirms River Lee ‘no mooring’ zones are not necessary
Historical Moorings on the River Lee Contradict CRT ‘Water Safety Zone’ Claim
Boaters Big Bash 14th June 2025
Boaters Big Bash 14th June 2025
Boaters Big Bash 14th June 2025
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
