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We’ve got a busy spring and summer ahead of us getting our message across and keeping the pressure up on CRT. If you’d like to help out, join our Protest WhatsApp and get involved in planning our upcoming actions. Join here: chat.whatsapp.com/FbU03KafHsNHiS…

The plan is to have some coffee, some cake and a bit of pétanque if people fancy it. Any questions, email: kandanbta@gmail.com Join the K&A WhatsApp group chat.whatsapp.com/L14FMnzUvlQDhN…

NBTA K&A May Social The K&A branch will be having a social this Saturday 2nd May at 12 noon at Sydney Gardens. We’ll be meeting at the Roasted Lemon Café kiosk. Come for as long or as little as you want, and meet other K&A members! roastedlemon.co.uk/kiosk-sydney-g…

From pulling people out of the water to just having a chat with a isolated local residents -- boaters bring more than just colour to the canal. Tell us your stories. nbtalondon.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/the…

Please give generously to help NBTA keep boats licenced, hostile changes to boat licensing law, discriminatory licence fee increases & more. Help protect our way of life, now more than ever! Please click here bargee-traveller.org.uk/donate/ Huge thanks to all who made donations already.

Join us leafleting against the surcharge at St. Richard's Canal Fest, Worcestershire, 2nd and 3rd May from 10am-4pm, and IWA Cavalcade, London, 2nd-3rd. Batchworth Rally, Rickmansworth 16-17 May For more info, email: stopboatlicencediscrimination@gmail.com

Boaters without home moorings are being hit with licence rises and surcharge cost totalling up to 56.71% in just five years. A 58ft now costs £1,672.90 — up £605.40 since 2021. This isn’t “cost recovery.” This is pricing people off the water.

We need bodies on the towpath. Supporters at events. We need leafleters. We need voices. Show CRT that boaters won’t be quietly pushed aside.

We have set up a dedicated email address to contact the NBTA casework team. If you need assistance please contact casework@bargee-traveller.org.uk. More about our casework nbtalondon.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/nbt…

Join here to become a member: bargee-traveller.org.uk/membership_for…

NBTA Committee meeting 19th April All members are invited take part in decision making and to help the NBTA to organise what we do. Online on Sunday 19th April 2026 at 2pm- 5pm. Link: 8x8.vc/nbtameetings/n…   Or phone in: 0330 808 1706 927 293 78#

The next NBTA K&A branch meeting is this Thursday 16th April at 7pm. This is an online meeting, which you can join from the link below: Meeting link: 8x8.vc/nbtameetings/n… Alternatively, you can Dial-in using this number: +44 330 808 1706 PIN: 927 293 78 #

We have seen a lot of support for scrapping the surcharge as of late. Let's take action that brings an end to the surcharge. Surcharge and Licence Review campaign meeting is on Monday 13 April at 7pm Meeting link: 8x8.vc/nbtameetings/n…

Ask almost any boater and they'll have at least one story of helping a fellow citizen. From near drownings, to administering first aid or calling ambulances, or just having a chat with a isolated local -- boaters bring more than just colour to the canal. Tell us your stories.

If any boater see fundraisers setting up near where they are moored, we are encouraging them to hand out our own flyers and counter CRT's narrative that they try to spread to the public. If you want to get involved email: stopboatlicencediscrimination@gmail.com

As the summer approaches, CRT will be sending their fundraisers out in force to raise money and improve their public appearance. This provides us with an opportunity to put pressure on them to reverse some of their more harmful policies.

NBTA London’s next branch meeting is on Sunday at 4pm online. The meeting will be online meeting and the link is here: 8x8.vc/nbtameetings/n… Alternatively, you can use the Dial-in details: +44 330 808 1706 PIN: 927 293 78 #

Join us this weekend at the Easter Historic Boat Gathering at Ellesmere Port. We'll be handing out leaflets from 10am-5pm on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th April. We will also be at St Richard’s Canal Festival (1–4 May) IWA Canalway Cavalcade (2–4 May)

A 58ft cc’er narrowboat licence cost £1,067.50 in 2021 on CRT waterways. This year it’s £1,672.90. That’s a £605.40 increase — a 56.71% rise in five years. No boater voted for this. No boater can absorb this forever. And no boater should be priced off the water by policy.

CALL OUT for performers and traders for the Summer Fayre June 7th 2026. Do you have a band? Are you a world champion in morris dancing or a magician? ! Would you like a trading table? Summer Fayre, Sunday 7th June in Hackney. Contact us at NBTA London at nbtalondon@gmail.com