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Author: Marcus Trower

Boaters marched in Birmingham!

November 27, 2023November 28, 2023 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

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 […]

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LICENCE DISCRIMINATION: The Canal & River Trust’s plan to eradicate a whole way of life!

November 3, 2023January 10, 2024 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

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 […]

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NBTA LOOKING TO PAY AN ORGANISER

October 25, 2023November 23, 2023 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

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 […]

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March on CRT’s offices! Stop the surcharge!

October 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

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 […]

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Call To Fight CRT’s Divisive Licence Fee Hikes

September 22, 2023January 9, 2024 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

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 6% on that already vastly inflated figure in 2024 – an […]

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Help get the word out!

March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

We need as many people as possible on CRT waterways to fill in the survey to show CRT we will not let them price us off the waterways. We’ve been getting the word out there across the waterways about CRT’s latest survey which tries to pit boater against boater to price many of us out […]

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Don’t let CRT price us off the water! Consultation deadline 6th April

March 7, 2023March 8, 2023 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

Canal & River Trust (CRT) has produced a consultation survey in which they ask boaters whether people without home moorings should pay higher licence fees than people with home moorings, as well as other leading and divisive questions. CRT planning to increase the boat licence by more than the rate of inflation is abhorrent, especially […]

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Boaters’ Spring Fayre, 14th May

February 4, 2023February 6, 2023 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

Boaters’ Spring Fayre         Next to the Clapton S Bend in Hackney          Ain’t No Party like an S Bend Party! We are proud to announce the Boaters’ Spring Fayre community event on Sunday 14th May 2023 starting at 12 noon in defence and celebration of our way of life. […]

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Join us at Hackney Protest Picnic 26th June!

June 10, 2022June 12, 2022 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

Early in 2021, CRT announced that they would be restricting moorings along 10km of the River Lea, claiming that mooring in these ‘Water Safety Zones’ was unsafe. Join us at the Hackney Protest Picnic on 26th June 2022 to continue our resistance! Meet at 12 noon on Walthamstow Marshes, opposite the Anchor & Hope pub.

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Don’t Let CRT Spread More Lies! Leafleting the Public at CRT’s Event in London

February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 Marcus Trower Uncategorized

On Saturday 19th February at 12pm, NBTA will be counter leafleting CRT’s re-opening of the Hertford union canal in Victoria Park, next to Gunmaker’s gate (E3 5PE). CRT market themselves as a charity that promotes wellbeing. This is an opportunity for us to show the public how damaging and nasty their policies are, and how […]

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