coming soon-ish... As we go to press it’s looking like we might actually run some kind of Canal Camps WRG Summer Canal Camps2021 No, you didn’t mis-read that! We really do think that there is enough of a likelihood of us being able to operate a programme of Waterway Recovery Group Canal Camps in summer 2021 that we’ve started on some detailed planning - and we want Navvies readers to know about it as early as possible, so that you can make plans for some summer volunteering. There’s still a lot of organisation and planning work to do, and a limited time to do it in (in a normal year we would usually have worked out at least a provisional schedule at the Bonfire Bash the previous November - but clearly in November 2020 there was no point in us planning anything), and everything might change with the next twist in the Covid-19 saga. So this preview article comes with more than the usual disclaimers...
Martin Ludgate
Nothing in this article is definite at all: it might only take (say) another new and nastier strain of Covid to change the national situation enough to knock the whole lot on the head. Or we might be unable to find accommodation that satisfies our updated requirements in the new era. Or any number of other possible glitches which might impact individual sites, reduce the amount of suitable work for us, or push our dates back further into the future. And speaking of dates, we aren’t in a position to give you any yet, other than the general idea (see panel opposite) that we’ll hope to kick off the programme around August. These are a selection of six projects on six waterways which are the front-runners as Canal Camps projects this summer, if and when that proCanal Camp site for 2021? The Swansea Canal on a 2017 Canal Camp gramme happens.
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