Green team Chesterfield Chesterfield Canal Trust is developing a ‘Green Team’ to make the restoration more eco-friendly - and align it with potential funders’ green agendas... Chesterfield’s Green Team We felt that the following article from Chesterfield Canal Trust’s magazine ‘The Cuckoo’ deserved a wider audience, especially among our readers from other canal societies, who might be interested in exchanging ideas and good practice with CCT on the benefits, possibilities and difficulties when it comes to making your canal restoration group and its activities as eco-friendly and sustainable as possible. Rod Auton explains...
Data collection Education, Learning & School Projects Developing the Hollingwood Hub Making more use of the canal Developing a Green Team.
I agreed to take on the last of these. We have two separate aims. The first is to create a group of local people who will eventually manage the canal at Renishaw. Hopefully this will then provide a model for further restored sections. We started by discussing with Bolsover Woodlands Enterprise how the woodlands and pond below the canal can be managed. We have also started a series of clear-ups being held on the last Saturday afternoon of every month. This is to keep the canal clear
Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust
Earlier this year, the Trustees started looking for ways of developing the Trust to make it as attractive as possible to potential funders when we are applying for grants in the future. Five topics were chosen:
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Bedford & Milton Keynes’ new electric tripboat. Sadly converting existing boats proved unaffordable
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