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Community orchard boosting wildlife and combats flood risk

7 May 2021

A new waterside community orchard and woodland has been planted along a canal towpath near Bolton, on a slope between the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal and the River Irwell, to improve biodiversity and help protect the area from flooding.
'Let's Fish!' sessions are back

7 May 2021

Families in Sheffield can try fishing for free thanks to the Trust, the Peoples Postcode Lottery and Angling Trust
Discovering the Walsall Canal

6 May 2021

We are working in a partnership with volunteers from the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society, to encourage boaters from across England to discover and spend time along the Walsall Canal.
Public Spaces Protection Order secured for Earlswood Lakes

5 May 2021

Stratford upon Avon District Council, working in partnership with statutory partners, including Warwickshire Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner and local councils, has implemented a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) for Earlswood Lakes, for three years from 1 May 2021.
Works have begun on Hartford blue bridge

30 April 2021

Footpath surface improvements connecting Hartford blue bridge to Saxons Lane and further on towards Hunt’s Locks park, have now begun
The tragic loss of our colleague, Clive Porter

27 April 2021

Our chief executive, Richard Parry, has released a message about the incident that took place on the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal on Monday 26 April.
Trevor Basin Visitor Centre gets a lockdown makeover

27 April 2021

The Visitor Centre at Trevor Basin, which welcomes the hundreds of thousands of visitors and tourists each year to the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Pontcysyllte Aqueduct has been given a lockdown makeover thanks to volunteers from Glandŵr Cymru
Repair project estimated £3 million to fix breach breach on the Aire & Calder Navigation

27 April 2021

A major project to repair a breach on the Aire & Calder Navigation is likely to cost in the region of £3 million.
Creating meadows for wildlife, art and people

23 April 2021

In partnership with arts organisation Peak, we've been working with artist Rebecca Chesney to make life better for wildlife and people on the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal.
We've teamed up with Leeds Building Society

21 April 2021

Leeds Building Society have agreed to adopt a one-mile stretch of waterways in the centre of Leeds to help to maintain this vital green corridor and attract more wildlife.

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