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 summer 2024!
Following a successful weekend on 15th and 16th June handing out hundreds of leaflets and getting several hundred petition signatures at the Hayes Canal Festival in London and the Bradley Canal Festival in Wolverhampton, NBTA is asking supporters if they can help leaflet and talk to members of the public at future events where CRT […]
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 […]
We will keep fighting the discriminatory licence fee ‘surcharge’
This April Fool’s Day will be the beginning of Canal & River Trust (CRT) charging boats for not having a home mooring. However, this is no April fool’s joke! Unchallenged, this will be the beginning of CRT being able to use the price of a licence to get rid of boats without home moorings. Each […]
Boaters Easter Regatta on 30th March
Come on Saturday 30th March to the Easter Regatta against the surcharge on our way of life and a celebration of the national boater community. Boaters from across the waterways will be coming to the event in Paddington featuring live music, speeches food, stalls and other boatee fun… Meet at the canalside entrance to Paddington […]