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CRT announces new chief executive
The Canal & River Trust has announced a senior figure with long experience in several national charities as its new chief executive. Campbell Robb will replace Richard Parry on 6th October 2026.
Mr Robb, 56, has led the social justice charity Nacro for six years. Before Nacro he was chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and prior to this spent seven years as chief executive of housing charity Shelter.
The new chief executive also has government experience – before Shelter, he was the first Director General of the Office…
16 May 2025
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Major Mick rounds off his 500-mile row at Cavalcade
Major Mick Stanley led this year’s Little Venice Canalway Cavalcade procession as he neared the end of a 500-mile charity row in his home-made corrugated…
14 May 2025
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CRT starts major heritage survey
How have the state of the waterways changed over the last 30 years? The Canal & River Trust has begun a heritage survey to find…
14 May 2025
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Good news on marine mortgages
Specialist finance company Promarine, currently the only source of marine mortgages for UK inland boats, has secured a £30m revolving credit facility to support growing…
14 May 2025
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New commercial wharf near Leeds is now the UK’s most inland port
A new freight facility saw its first cargo on 6th May, when Casper River & Canal Transport’s MV Off-Roader delivered 400 tons of sea-dredged aggregates…
14 May 2025
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Surge in unsafe boats on waterways says RCR
River Canal Rescue is dealing with a surge in unsafe boats cruising the inland waterways. The breakdown service estimates around 16% of its 3,500 yearly…
14 May 2025
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Driest start to season for years shuts Leeds & Liverpool
The driest start to the year in almost a century is forcing the Canal & River Trust to close the central Leeds & Liverpool Canal…
12 May 2025
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Flotilla takes funding plea to Westminster
The IWA says the UK government has received ‘a wake-up call’, after a flotilla from the campaigning group Fund Britain’s Waterways took its message to…
12 May 2025
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CRT sells assets to pay for boating facilities
The Canal & River Trust has announced new water taps, Elsan points and pump-out facilities for boaters over the next five years, with an extra…
06 May 2025
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Council agrees on Newry Canal restoration
In Northern Ireland the Newry Canal restoration has received unanimous support from a local council, after a decade of little progress.
A meeting of the…
01 May 2025
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Bridgewater breach will be repaired by December 2026
The Bridgewater Canal Company has set itself a target to repair the Dunham Massey canal breach by December 2026, around two years after the New…
29 April 2025
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