Navvies news Crew and helpers wanted for nb Jubilee Making the Most of Jubilee Many Navvies readers will be aware that the Inland Waterways Association purchased our own boat Jubilee on the occasion of our Golden Jubilee in order to promote all parts of the association, including WRG. As an organisation relying on volunteers however, it is generally agreed that since then we have not always been in a position to make the most of Jubilee’s potential or the opportunities that it provides. There is a big promotional tour planned to promote IWA Diamond Jubilee in 2006. Meanwhile, we are now reorganising the administration of Jubilee and are putting plans in hand for the lead up to the National. However, we could do with some help! (so what’s new?)
We hope that Restoration Groups and Societies can provide us with information on Festivals, Rallies and events which Jubilee could attend, and whether you attend as an IWA branch / society. We are also looking to increase our database of crews available for moving Jubilee and this could well be an opportunity for some of our armchair wrgies to become more involved.. For more information, keep a lookout on the IWA website, e-mail nbjubilee@waterways.org.uk or contact me direct Frank Wallder, 12, Bray Lodge High Street Cheshunt. Waltham Cross, Herts., EN8 0DN Tel/ Fax 01992 636164 Mobile 07985 013032 We would also appreciate any publicity for Jubilee in your newsletters. Thank you for your co-operation and help. Frank Wallder
Contributions ...to Navvies are always welcome, but especially so in the next issue as - being at a time of year when there aren’t many Canal Camps to report on - we sometimes find ourselves a little short on content for the April - May issue. So if you were thinking of writing an article, a letter, a late contribution to ‘Lost in Transit’ (van stories), ‘Recipes for Disaster’ (catering yarns), ‘Best described as Basic’ (accommodation tales), sending in some photographs, a snippet for the back page, or anything else, but just hadn’t quite got around to it, now’s your chance! Otherwise you’ve only yourselves to blame if I have to fill up all the empty pages with another instalment of ‘Whose Tirfor is it anyway’, a list of every single item we pull out of the BCN on the Cleanup, and a 12-page special by Bungle about fitting a tachograph to a KL15 crane...
The auction... IWA
...of waterways books and publications in the last issue of Navvies raised a total of Narrow boat Jubilee carrying out its important work of spreading the £322.55 for WRG funds. We’ll message about canals and the IWA to the public at boat festivals and have another one when we’ve other events. Would you like to help? got some more books to sell.
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