With some confusion and a seeming lack of wide alarm at a 5% rising to 25% surcharge on the licence fees of boats without a home mooring, CRT’s ‘glide path’, which introduces incremental and differential licence pricing between now and 2028, could well be intentionally deceptive.
New NBTA K&A branch, first meeting 3rd June
A new branch of the NBTA is forming on the Kennet & Avon Canal! The first branch meeting will take place online on Monday 3rd June 2024 at 7pm. Come to the meeting to discuss and plan actions and support for liveaboard boaters locally!
Register by 18th June if you want to vote in the General Election on 4th July and bring PHOTO ID to vote
The General Election will take place on Thursday 4th July, and the polls will be open from 7am – 10pm. Register by 18th June if you want to vote. You can vote even if you live on a boat without a fixed address, by declaring a “local connection” to the place you are currently moored […]
Hackney Smoke Control Order consultation, ends 5th July 2024
London Borough of Hackney is preparing to enact a Smoke Control Order that will include moored boats for the first time. The Smoke Control Order could fine people up to £300 for producing smoke from a chimney and/or burning wood in a non-Defra approved stove. Don’t let the council fine you for heating your home! […]
Boat Dwellers’ mental health project is runner up in Friends Families and Travellers Awards 2024!
The Psychotherapy and Skills Coaching Service for Boat Dwellers without a Home Mooring was one of two runners up in the Special Project category of the Friends Families and Travellers (FFT) annual awards this year. Co-ordinator Helen Brice attended the awards ceremony in Brighton on 25th April. There were 108 projects nominated for the awards […]
Petition against the surcharge, please sign and share!
Please sign and share our petition against the discriminatory Canal & River Trust surcharge on the licences of boats without a home mooring! The petition is online here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/stopthesurcharge
Protest and engagement against the surcharge at CRT events and stalls!
Following a successful bank holiday weekend on 4th to 6th May 2024 handing out hundreds of leaflets and getting several hundred petition signatures at the Canalway Cavalcade in London and St Richards Canal Festival in Droitwich, NBTA is asking supporters if they can help leaflet and talk to members of the public at future events […]
All members invited to NBTA Committee meeting, 14th April
All members are invited to the NBTA Committee meeting on Sunday 14th April 2024 at 2-5pm. Take part in decision making and help the NBTA to plan future actions and organise what we do! The meeting will be held online and by phone, to maximise participation.
Easter Regatta in the face of the Surcharge
Hundreds of boaters and supporters alike turned out for this demonstration of community, solidarity and resistance to CRTs plans to dispossess us from our homes on the water. Before we arrived, Paddington Basin was empty, but at the Boaters’ Easter Regatta we’ve demonstrated exactly what boaters mean to the waterways by filling it with life, […]
Please respond to Hillingdon Smoke Control Order consultation before 29th March
London Borough of Hillingdon, which includes the Harefield, Uxbridge and West Drayton areas on the southern Grand Union Canal, is preparing to enact a Smoke Control Order that will include moored boats for the first time. The Smoke Control Order could fine people up to £300 for producing smoke from a chimney and/or burning wood […]