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 […]
NBTA and Fund Britain’s Waterways campaign
When, in the wake of DEFRA’s decision to reduce the grant to the Canal & River Trust (CRT), several boaters’ groups and other stakeholders set up the Fund Britain’s Waterways campaign, the NBTA politely declined the invitation to join the campaign. So, don’t we think that the waterways should be properly funded? Of course we […]
Are you in Wiltshire? You could get a £400 energy payment if you missed out last year
Are you in Wiltshire? Liveaboard boaters on the Kennet and Avon Canal could get a £400 energy payment if they missed out last year. Contact Wiltshire Council on 0300 003 4576 or scan the QR code below. Please contact the NBTA on secretariat@bargee-traveller.org.uk or 0118 321 4128 if you have any questions about this.
What should NBTA be doing over the next year? Online meeting 6th March
The NBTA is having a meeting to discuss and plan what we as a national organisation will be doing over the next year. All members are invited. This is a continuation of the General Meeting agenda item that there wasn’t time to complete on 17th February. Come and have your say and be part of […]