We love and care for your canals and rivers, because everyone deserves a place to escape.

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Where we work

We bring waterways to life across England and Wales. Here you can find out how our local teams are championing canals and rivers in your area, what exciting volunteering opportunities they have and any meetings or partnership vacancies currently available.

See our network of canals and rivers on our waterway map.

Lady walking her dog by River Trent

East Midlands

Boasting everything from powerful tidal rivers to sleepy wildlife-rich canals, this area offers unique opportunities to waterside communities, businesses and visitors.
Caen Hill

Kennet & Avon

Whether it's the 87 mile-long Kennet & Avon or the 13 mile-long Bridgwater & Taunton Canals, these green corridors cut a path through some of the most spectacular scenery in the south-west.
Boats moored in basin with London Docklands in background

London

The London area, including Paddington and the Olympic Park stretches from the Upper Grand Union to the River Stort. With inner-city and suburban areas enjoying these beautiful waterways.
Manchester & Pennines at night

Manchester, Pennine & Potteries

Through Manchester, Cheshire, across the Pennines and down into the Potteries, water flows from dense major towns to open countryside, wild and dramatic. Our waterways offer both a lively city experience and wonderful countryside.
Aire & Calder

North East

Covering Yorkshire and Teeside, our diverse waterway links major urban city centres with the tranquility of the countryside; wonderful hiddens gems of our canal history can be found here in the north east.
Llangollen

North Wales & Borders

From wide agricultural vistas to rolling hills and valleys, our waterway, rich with history and structural phenomenons, passes through some of the most rural counties in England and Wales.
Leeds & Liverpool

North West

The north-west waterway links urban city centres and the picturesque countryside, spanning borders of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancaster and Yorkshire.
Walking by the canal

South East

The South East is home to a range of canals, embracing Herts, Bucks, Northampton, Leicester, Warwick and Oxford; rich in both picturesque hamlets and large urban regions.
Gloucestershire

South Wales & Severn

Stretching from north Worcestershire down to the commercial port of Sharpness and over to Swansea and the magnificent rural Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal, our waterways are arguably the most diverse across England and Wales.
Canoeing on the Birmingham Canal Navigation

West Midlands

From the busy areas of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the Black Country to the rural characterful South Staffordshire and Warwickshire, these waterways boast a wonderfully diverse environment.