#nbta #winterwarmer happen the 29th of november at LARC Whitechapel. Good food good dring, good social!
#nbtalondon #nbta #leenavigation #regentcanal #grandunioncanal
#nbta #winterwarmer happen the 29th of november at LARC Whitechapel. Good food good dring, good social!
#nbtalondon #nbta #leenavigation #regentcanal #grandunioncanal
*LEA BOATERS SPRING GATHERING* 🌥️
Let's celebrate, connect and take collective action!
*Saturday 8th March 🛶*
*Leaside, E5 9HQ📍*
*🍽️ 12:30pm - Community Lunch*
Meet, eat, and connect with the River Lea boating community - everyone welcome!
*💬 2pm - Community Forum*
Lea Boaters Manifesto / NBTA Update / Kids Logo Design / Floatilla River Safety Intro / Collective Action Planning / Women and Non-Binary Story Circle
*🎤 5-8pm - Celebrate International Women's Day!*
A social with artist showcase and music from women, trans, queer and non binary folk who shape the water!
Want to help organise? Are you an artist who wants to take part? Do you have access needs?
📧 Get in touch! leaboaters@proton.me
📳 Join WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DTdJj22yDdu69Bd0OHiwEG
#riverlea #riverlee #londonboaters #womenday #womenday2025 #nbta #nbtalondon
The stress of alt living in the remains of the commons, boaters in the UK
The boater community is in rapid transition, with the pressures from gentrification, corporate control (#CRT), and online group dynamics (#failbook) colliding with a long-established scruffy, self-sufficient, and sometimes chaotic #liveaboard culture. This can be seen in the #failbook London Boaters group which has shifted away from its activist roots into more of a "management" role, shaped by #NGO-style moderation and back-channel conversations with #CRT. The shift from grassroots […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-stress-of-alt-living-in-the-remains-of-the-commons-boaters-in-the-uk/
LEA BOATERS SPRING GATHERING 🌥️
Let's celebrate, connect and take collective action!
Saturday 8th March 🛶
Leaside, E5 9HQ📍
🍽️ 12:30pm - Community Lunch
Meet, eat, and connect with the River Lea boating community - everyone welcome!
💬 2pm - Community Forum
Lea Boaters Manifesto / NBTA Licence Review briefing / Kids Logo Design / Floatilla River Safety Intro / Collective Action Planning / Women and Non-Binary Story Circle
🎤 5-8pm - Celebrate International Women's Day!
A social with artist showcase and music from women, trans, queer and non binary folk who shape the water!
Want to help organise? Are you an artist who wants to take part? Do you have access needs?
📧 Get in touch! leaboaters@proton.me
📳 Join WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DTdJj22yDdu69Bd0OHiwEG
#londonboaters #nbtalondon #riverlea #nbta #womanday #womanday2025
For the fuller picture see the National Bargee and Traveller Association
Hard times for London Boaters.
The Canal and River Trust is pushing ahead with plans to gentrify the London canal network by pushing off the itinerant 'live aboard' boaters through increased licence fees and adding extra charges and prohibitions for moorings.
This is a targeted assault on waterway communities, replacing peoples homes with 'leisure opportunities'
A licence strike looms
Catching up with the National Bargee Traveller Association campaign against the imposition of unfair charges for itinerant boaters. They are planning a licence strike and also a picnic.
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"Off topic posts are deleted. Political posts, campaigns (except HS2 / Kill The Bill & traveller rights,) memes, pets lost from locations away from the waterways, news and petitions not directly related to boats or boaters or London canals and rivers will also be deleted. Fly-tipping and bin-porn posts will be locked before they descend into a bin fire. Towpath tidy/litter picking posts will be celebrated - be the change you wish to see.
As this London boaters specific post was removed by admins. Can I ask when this rule was added, and where was the community outreach on for this thanks. As I was an admin on this page for meany years, and this is not a native thing to do.
In London, we need to talk about what works and what does not work to save our practical lifestyle.
We generally agree that [#CRT]is [#notfitforpurpose], and we want to do something about this https://www.bargee-traveller.org.uk/march-on-crts.../ A good reaction post to this “Think this is great, but wouldn’t it be better to do it when the office is actually open?" its the normal A to B march problem and the subject of the #XR big one demo video I made about this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQTmYTcCMQ what the #NBTA is doing is not unworthy, but it's not going to actually change us losing this one. To do that, you would need something more affective. The spiky/fluffy debate in the video above.
Question to London boaters, what can we do to make the change that is needed at #CRT"