List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom
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This List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom is a list of links to waterway societies
Waterway society
A Waterway society is a society, association, charitable trust, club, trust or "Friends" group involved in the restoration, preservation, use and enjoyment of waterways, e.g. a canal, river, navigation or other waterway, and their associated buildings and structures, e.g...

, charities
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...

, trust (law)trusts, association
Voluntary association
A voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose.Strictly speaking, in many jurisdictions no formalities are necessary to start an association...

s, club
Club
A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal. A service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to hobbies and sports, social activities clubs, political and religious clubs, and so forth.- History...

s and other non-governmental waterway organisations, concerned with the restoration, regeneration and use of the waterway
Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways can include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:...

s in the United Kingdom.

A

  • Accessible Boating Association
    Accessible Boating Association
    The Accessible Boating Association is a waterway society and a registered charity number 295034 in Hampshire, England, UK.The Association aims to provide boating opportunities on the Basingstoke Canal for disabled people with access difficulties. The Association was formerly known as "Boats for the...

    , Hampshire / Disability
  • Airedale Boat Club
    Airedale Boat Club
    Airedale Boat Club is a waterway society on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Yorkshire, England, UK. It was founded in 1959 and its base is situated very close to the Bingley Five Rise Locks flight....

    , Yorkshire
  • Anderton Boat Lift Trust
    Anderton Boat Lift Trust
    The Anderton Boat Lift Trust is a waterway society in Cheshire, England, UK, and a member of the partnership to restore the Anderton Boat Lift near Northwich on the Weaver Navigation.The other partners are:*Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs...

  • Anglers Conservation Association
    Anglers Conservation Association
    The Anglers Conservation Association was a non-profit making waterway society in England, UK. Founded in 1948, it started out as the Anglers' Cooperative Association, but changed its name in 1994...

  • Ashby Canal Association
    Ashby Canal Association
    The Ashby Canal Association is a waterway society and a registered charity No. 1063566, in Leicestershire and Staffordshire, England, UK, concerned with the Ashby Canal, and affiliated to the Inland Waterways Association....

    , Leicestershire, Staffordshire
  • Ashby Canal Trust
    Ashby Canal Trust
    The Ashby Canal Trust is a waterway society based at Measham, Swadlincote, Leicestershire, England, UK, and concerned with the restoration of a part of the Ashby Canal, also known as the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal....

    , Leicestershire, Staffordshire
  • Association of Nene River Clubs
    Association of Nene River Clubs
    The Association of Nene River Clubs is an association and umbrella organisation for waterway societies on the River Nene,England, UK. It liaises between the clubs and outside organisations, such as the Environment Agency and the Royal Yachting Association, and it is itself affiliated to the...

  • Association of Rivers Trusts
    Association of Rivers Trusts
    The Rivers Trust is the new name for the Association of Rivers Trusts which is a waterway society and registered charity No. 1107144, and an umbrella organisation for trusts concerned with rivers in England and Wales...

  • Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs
    Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs
    The Association of Waterways Cruising clubs is a waterway society and umbrella organisation in England, UK. It was founded in the early 1960s by the St Pancras, Dunstable, Uxbridge and Lee and Stort boat clubs as an inter-club scheme for an emergency service for boaters, and for safe overnight...

  • Aylesbury Canal Society
    Aylesbury Canal Society
    The Aylesbury Canal Society is a waterway society on the Grand Union Canal, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. The society was launched in 1971 to promote the use of the Aylesbury Arm, and to run moorings leased from British Waterways....

    , Buckinghamshire

B

  • Barge Association
    Barge Association
    The Dutch Barge Association is a waterway society in the United Kingdom with a special interest in barges and other broad beam inland craft. It is usually referred to as DBA - The Barge Association. The Association has over 1,400 members from many countries....

     (DBA)
  • Barnsley, Dearne and Dove Canals Trust, South Yorkshire
  • Basingstoke Canal Angling Association
  • Basingstoke Canal Boating Club
  • Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust
  • Birmingham Canal Navigations Society
    Birmingham Canal Navigations Society
    The Birmingham Canal Navigations Society is a waterway society, a registered charity no. 1091760 and a limited company no. 4306537 , operating on the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and based at Oldbury, West Midlands, England, UK....

  • Blackwater River Preservation Society, Hampshire
  • Boaters Christian Fellowship
  • Boat Jumble Association
  • Brent River and Canal Society, London
  • Bridge 19-40 Canal Society
    Bridge 19-40 Canal Society
    The Bridge 19-40 Canal Society is a waterway society and a registered Scottish Charity operating community boats on the Union Canal, with bases at Winchburgh and Drumshoreland, West Lothian, Scotland, UK .-History:...

    , Scotland
  • British Canoe Union
    British Canoe Union
    The British Canoe Union is a national governing body for canoeing in the United Kingdom, whose stated purpose is "Helping and Inspiring people to go canoeing”....

     (BCU)
  • Broads Society
    Broads Society
    The Broads Society is a waterway society in Norfolk and Suffolk, England, UK.The society was founded in 1956 to provide a focus for anyone interested in the region, e.g. navigators, naturalists, farmers, residents and visitors...

    , Norfolk, Suffolk
  • Broxbourne Cruising Club
  • Bruce Wake Charitable Trust, Disability
  • Buckingham Canal Society
  • Bude Canal Trust, Cornwall

C

  • Calder Navigation Society, West Yorkshire
  • Caldon and Uttoxeter Canals Trust / Caldon Canal Society ?
  • Cambridgeshire Fens Preservation Society
  • Chelmer Canal Trust
  • Chester Canal Heritage Trust
    Chester Canal Heritage Trust
    The Chester Canal Heritage Trust was started in 1997, to promote the canal in Chester, Cheshire, and educate about it. The canal was originally the Chester Canal, before becoming part of the Shropshire Union Canal network....

  • Chesterfield Canal Trust
    Chesterfield Canal Trust
    The Chesterfield Canal Trust Limited is a waterway society and charitable company which campaigns for and undertakes various activities related to the Chesterfield Canal, which runs from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England to the River Trent at West Stockwith....

    , Derbyshire
  • Chichester Canal Society, West Sussex
  • Chiltern Society Rivers and Wetlands Conservation Group, Buckinghamshire
  • Coombeswood Canal Trust
  • Cornwall Rivers Project, part of Westcountry Rivers Trust
    Westcountry Rivers Trust
    The Westcountry Rivers Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity No. 1045806 in the West Country of England, United Kingdom. The Trust was founded in 1995 and aims to protect and enhance the West Country's rivers and streams, and to work with the region's landowners, farmers and the...

  • Coventry Canal Society, Warwickshire
  • Cotswold Canals Trust
    Cotswold Canals Trust
    The Cotswold Canals Trust is a registered charity that aims to protect and restore the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames and Severn Canal. The group was founded in 1972....


D

  • Darenth River Preservation Society, Kent
  • Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust
    Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust
    The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust no. 1042227, registered November 21, 1994, and a registered company No...

    , Derbyshire
  • Disabled Sailors Association, Disability
  • Dittons Skiff and Punting Club
    Dittons Skiff and Punting Club
    Dittons Skiff and Punting Club or Dittons is an English skiff and punting club, which was founded in 1923. It is based on the River Thames with a club and boat house at Thames Ditton on the reach above Teddington Lock...

  • Docklands Canal Boat Trust
  • Dorset and Somerset Canal Study Group, Wiltshire
  • Driffield Navigation Amenities Association, Yorkshire
  • Droitwich Canals Trust
    Droitwich Canals Trust
    In 1973 The Droitwich Canals Trust was formed and began to work towards the restoration of the Droitwich Canal.-See also:*Canals of the United Kingdom*History of the British canal system...

    , Worcestershire
  • Duchess Countess Trust
  • Dudley Canal Trust
  • Durham College Rowing
    Durham College Rowing
    Durham College Rowing represents all sixteen College Boat Clubs in Durham University, encompassing approximately half of the rowers, scullers and coxes in the region of North East England....

  • Durham University Boat Club
    Durham University Boat Club
    Durham University Boat Club is the Rowing Club of Durham University in England.- History :The club was founded in the 1880s to represent the University instead of University College Boat Club and Hatfield College Boat Club....


E

  • East Anglian Waterways Association
    East Anglian Waterways Association
    The East Anglian Waterways Association is a waterway society and an umbrella organisation in East Anglia, England, UK.The association was founded on 18 April 1958, and it campaigns for the preservation, restoration and good management of the tidal and inland waterways in East Anglia...

  • Edinburgh Canal Society
    Edinburgh Canal Society
    The Edinburgh Canal Society is a charitable canal society on the Union Canal in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Society's main base is Ashley Terrace Boathouse at Lockhart Bridge, near Harrison Park in the Polwarth area of Edinburgh....

    , Scotland
  • Edinburgh University Boat Club
    Edinburgh University Boat Club
    Edinburgh University Boat Club is one of the oldest sports clubs within The University of Edinburgh, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland....

  • Electric Boat Association
  • English Federation of Disability Sport
    English Federation of Disability Sport
    The English Federation of Disability Sport is an umbrella organization promoting sport for athletes with disabilities in England. Founded in 1998, the Federation brought together a number of organizations who had separately promoted disabled sports before its creation...

    , Disability
  • Erewash Canal Preservation & Development Association

F

  • Falkirk and District Canals Society, Scotland
  • Fenland Lighter Project
  • Fleet Pond Society, Hampshire
  • Forth Canoe Club
    Forth Canoe Club
    The Forth Canoe Club, founded in 1934, is Scotland's oldest surviving canoe club. It is a founding member of the Scottish Canoe Association.The club originally met at Granton in North Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth...

    , Scotland
  • Forth and Clyde Canal Society
    Forth and Clyde Canal Society
    The Forth and Clyde Canal Society is a waterway society on the Forth & Clyde Canal in the Lowlands of Scotland, UK, and was formed in 1980 to 'campaign for the Forth and Clyde's preservation, restoration and development'...

    , Scotland
  • Forth Yacht Clubs Association, Scotland (deleted)
  • Foxton Inclined Plane Trust
    Foxton Inclined Plane Trust
    The Foxton Inclined Plane Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity on the Grand Union Canal at Foxton, Leicestershire, England, UK...

    , Leicestershire
  • Friends of the Cromford Canal
  • Friends of the Montgomery Canal
  • Friends of President
  • Friends of Raymond
  • Friends of Slough Canal
  • Friends of the River Frome, Somerset
  • Friends of the River Kelvin, Scotland
  • Friends of the Upper Colne

G

  • Glasgow University Boat Club
    Glasgow University Boat Club
    Glasgow University Boat Club is one of the oldest institutions at the University of Glasgow, in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, with a rich tradition stretching back to its foundation in 1877. Although traditionally all-male, in 2004 the club underwent an historic transformation with the acceptance...

  • Gloucestershire Disabled Afloat Riverboats Trust, Disability
  • Grand Western Canal Trust, Somerset
  • Grantham Canal Restoration Society, Nottingham
  • Great Glen Canal Users Association, Scotland
  • Great Ouse Boating Association
    Great Ouse Boating Association
    The Great Ouse Boating Association is a waterway society on the rivers Great Ouse, River Cam, Lark, Little Ouse, River Wissey, and associated waterways in East Anglia.The voluntary association was founded in 1958, and has over 3000 members...

     (GOBA), Bedfordshire

H

  • Helford River Association, Cornwall
  • Hereford and Gloucester Canal Trust
  • Heritage Afloat
  • Historic Narrow Boat Owners Club
  • Hollinwood Canal Society, Greater Manchester
  • Horseboating Society
    Horseboating Society
    The Horseboating Society is a national society, with the primary aim being the preservation and promotion of Horseboating on the canals of Great Britain...

  • Huddersfield Canal Society
  • Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society

I

  • Inland Waterways Association
    Inland Waterways Association
    The Inland Waterways Association was formed in 1946 as a registered charity in the United Kingdom to campaign for the conservation, use, maintenance, restoration and sensitive development of British Canals and river navigations....

     (IWA), covers England and Wales
  • Inland Waterways Association of Ireland
    Inland Waterways Association of Ireland
    The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland Cumann Uiscebhealaigh Intíre na hÉireann is a registered charity and a limited company in the Republic of Ireland and also operates in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1954 to campaign for the conservation and development of the waterways and their...

     (IWAI), covers the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
  • See also: Scottish Inland Waterways Association
    Scottish Inland Waterways Association
    The Scottish Inland Waterways Association was a registered charity and association of canal societies and individual canal enthusiasts in Scotland....

     (SIWA), covers Scotland
  • Inland Waterways Protection Society
    Inland Waterways Protection Society
    The Inland Waterways Protection Society was founded on the 21 April 1958 by the late Mrs Bessie Bunker of Sheffield, who became its Secretary....

  • Irish Canoe Union
  • Islwyn Canal Association
  • Itchen Hamble Countryside Project, Hampshire

K

  • Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, Wiltshire
  • Kent and East Sussex Canal Restoration Group
  • Kentish Stour Conservation Group, Kent
  • Kingston Royals Dragon Boat Racing Club
    Kingston Royals Dragon Boat Racing Club
    Kingston Royals Dragon Boat Club is based in Teddington on the non-tidal Thames. Kingston Royals DBC was founded in 1988 as the dragon boat racing section of the Royal Canoe Club , and was one of the first dragon boat clubs to race in the UK. The section was formed from a mixture of RCC members...


L

  • Lancaster Canal Trust
    Lancaster Canal Trust
    The Lancaster Canal Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity on the Lancaster Canal in Lancashire and Cumbria, England UK.It was formed in 1963 as the Association for the Restoration of the Lancaster Canal, and its main aim is the restoration and reopening for navigation of the stretch...

    , Lancashire, Cumbria
  • Lapal Canal Trust, Midlands
  • Lea Rivers Trust, London
  • Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society
    Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society
    The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society is a waterway society on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire and Yorkshire, England, UK. The society was formed to help promote the canal, and to encourage greater appreciation and understanding of its history and environment.-External links:******...

    , Lancashire, Yorkshire
  • Leighton Buzzard Canal Society, Bedfordshire
  • Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust
  • Lincoln Boat Club, Lincolnshire
  • Linlithgow Union Canal Society
    Linlithgow Union Canal Society
    The Linlithgow Union Canal Society is a waterway society and a Scottish registered charity based at Linlithgow Canal Centre on the Union Canal at Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland...

     (LUCS), Scotland
  • Llandaff Rowing Club
    Llandaff Rowing Club
    Llandaff Rowing Club is based on the River Taff in Llandaff, a district in the city of Cardiff, Wales. The Club was founded in 1946 and is affiliated to the Welsh Amateur Rowing Association .- Location :...

    , Wales
  • London Rivers Association
  • Longwood Boat Club
  • Louth Navigation Trust, Lincolnshire
  • Lower Avon Navigation Trust, Worcestershire
  • Low Impact Life on Board (LILO)

M

  • Macclesfield Canal Society, Cheshire
  • Maidenhead Waterways Restoration Group, Berkshire
  • Malmesbury River Valleys Trust, Wiltshire
  • Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Society (MBBC), Greater Manchester
  • Manchester and Stockport Canal Society, Greater Manchester
  • Manchester Canoe Club
    Manchester Canoe Club
    The Manchester Canoe Club is based on the banks of the River Goyt at Marple, in Greater Manchester, England. Since its foundation in 1933, the club has been actively involved in the development of canoe sport, particularly in the competitive disciplines of Canoe Polo and Canoe...

  • Marine Conservation Society
    Marine Conservation Society
    The Marine Conservation Society a UK charity for the protection of the seas around the United Kingdom, and for the protection of their shores and wildlife.According to their website MCS's Vision is:Their website also states:...

  • Mariners of Bewl
    Bewl Valley Sailing Club
    Bewl Valley Sailing Club is a sailing dinghy and windsurfing club that currently has approximately 920 full members . It is affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association and a registered RYA Training Centre. The club organises safety boat cover for sailing and windsurfing every Saturday and...

    , Kent / Disability
  • Marple Locks Heritage Society, Greater Manchester
  • Medway River Users Association, Kent
  • Melton and Oakham Waterways Society, Leicestershire
  • Mersey Basin Campaign
    Mersey Basin Campaign
    The Mersey Basin Campaign worked within the catchments of the River Mersey and the River Ribble, in the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire and in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in the UK...

  • Mersey Motor Boat Club, Merseyside
  • Middle Thames Motor Yacht Club
  • Monmouthshire, Brecon and Abergavenny Canals Trust, Wales
  • Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust
    Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust
    Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust is a registered charity, number 510448, which exists to promote the restoration of the Montgomery Canal.The Trust was formed in 1980 and its members include:*Inland Waterways Association*Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust...

    , Shropshire

N

  • Nancy Oldfield Trust
    Nancy Oldfield Trust
    The Nancy Oldfield Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust and a registered charity no. 1068549 in Norfolk, East Anglia, England, UK....

    , Norfolk Broads / Disability
  • Narrow Boat Trust Ltd.
  • Narrowboat Lucy
  • National Association of Boat Owners (NABO)
  • National Community Boats Association
    National Community Boats Association
    The National Community Boats Association is a waterway society, registered charity No. 1108993 and limited company No. 5331820, in the United Kingdom....

     (NCBA)
  • Neath and Tennant Canals Trust
  • Norbury Cruising Club
  • Norfolk Heritage Fleet Trust
    Norfolk Heritage Fleet Trust
    The Norfolk Heritage Fleet Trust is a waterway society and charitable trust based at Hunter's Yard, Ludham on the Norfolk Broads, England, UK. The Trust maintains and hires out a fleet of wooden sailing yachts from the 1930s....

  • Norfolk Punt Club
  • Norfolk Sailing School
  • Norfolk and Suffolk Boating Association
  • Norfolk Wherry Trust
    Norfolk Wherry Trust
    The Norfolk Wherry Trust is a waterway society and registered charity 1084156 in Norfolk, England, UK. based at Womack Water near Ludham, Norfolk Broads....

  • North Cheshire Cruising Club
  • Northern Reaches Restoration Group
    Northern Reaches Restoration Group
    The Northern Reaches Restoration Group is a waterway society in Lancashire and Cumbria, England, UK.It is concerned with the re-opening of the Northern Reaches of the Lancaster Canal, a 14 mile stretch from Tewitfield Locks to Canal Head at Kendal...

    , Lancashire, Cumbria
  • North Walsham and Dilham Canal Trust, Norfolk
  • North Wey (Hants) Preservation Society, Hampshire
  • Nottingham Rowing Club
    Nottingham Rowing Club
    Nottingham Rowing Club is a rowing club in West Bridgford, Nottingham.The club was formed in 2006 as a merger of the Nottingham Boat Club and the Nottingham Britannia Rowing Club, two historic rowing clubs that were established in 1894 and 1869 respectively...

  • Nottingham University Boat Club
    Nottingham University Boat Club
    The Nottingham University Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Nottingham based in the UK on the River Trent. Founded in 1948 the club has over 120 current active members, equally split between men’s, women’s and novice squads. Nottingham University is one of the largest university...


P

  • Peter Le Marchant Trust
    Peter Le Marchant Trust
    The Peter Le Marchant Trust is a waterway society, a charitable trust and a registered charity number 273207, based in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK....

    , Leicestershire / Disability
  • Peterborough Yacht Club
  • Pocklington Canal Amenity Society
  • Poole Sailability, Dorset / Disability
  • Preston City Link Canal Trust, Lancashire

R

  • Railway and Canal Historical Society
    Railway and Canal Historical Society
    The Railway and Canal Historical Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways in Britain, its main objects being to promote historical research and to raise the standard of...

  • Rammey Marsh Cruising Club, Enfield
    London Borough of Enfield
    The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest...

  • Residential Boat Owners Association
  • Ribble Link Trust
    Ribble Link Trust
    The Ribble Link Trust is a waterway society, campaigners, instigators of and involved in the Ribble Link, a navigable waterway that connects the Lancaster Canal to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Lancashire, England, UK via the River Ribble....

    , Lancashire
  • Rickmansworth Waterways Trust
  • Ridgeways Boaters Association, Middlesex
  • River Allen Association, Dorset
  • River Avon Protection Society, Devon
  • River Bann and Lough Neagh Association, Northern Ireland
  • River Beane Preservation Society, Hampshire
  • River Camel Protection Society, Cornwall
  • River Chess Preservation Society, Hertfordshire
  • River Creedy Protection Society, Devon
  • River Mole Preservation Association, Surrey
  • River Nailbourne Preservation Society, Kent
  • River Piddle Protection Association, Dorset
  • River Stour Trust
    River Stour Trust
    The River Stour Trust is a registered charity and waterway restoration group. It was founded in 1968 to protect and enhance the right of the public to navigate the River Stour, Suffolk, England...

  • River Swale Preservation Society, Cleveland
  • River Tarrant Protection Society, Dorset
  • River Taw Protection Society, Devon
  • River Teifi Preservation Society, Dyfed, Wales
  • River Thames Society
  • River Wear Environmental Trust, Co. Durham
  • River Weaver Navigation Society
    River Weaver Navigation Society
    The River Weaver Navigation Society is a waterway society concerned with the River Weaver, from Winsford to its confluence with the Manchester Ship Canal....

  • River Wey Preservation Society, Dorset
  • River Wey Trust, Hampshire
  • River Wye Restoration Trust, Worcestershire
  • River Wylye Preservation Society, Wiltshire
  • River Yealm and District Association, Devon
  • River Yeo Protection Society, Devon
  • Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland
    Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland
    The Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland is a waterway society, an unincorporated association, a Scottish charity, and an umbrella organisation for river trusts in Scotland, based in Edinburgh.RAFTS is the representative of all of Scotland's river systems...

    , Scotland
  • Rotherham and Sheffield Canal Association, Yorkshire
  • Royal Canoe Club
    Royal Canoe Club
    The Royal Canoe Club , founded in 1866, is the oldest canoe club in the world and received royal patronage in the 19th century. The clubhouse is based at Trowlock Island on the River Thames in Teddington near central London. The club promotes canoeing and kayaking, focusing on flatwater, sprint and...

  • Royal Perth Yacht Club
    Royal Perth Yacht Club
    The Royal Perth Yacht Club is a yacht club in Perth, Western Australia. -Early history:The "Perth Yacht and Boat Club" in 1880 was able to build a jetty at the foot of William Street in Perth Water. Perth Yacht Club received the Royal Charter in 1890. The club shifted to Crawley in 1953 when the...

  • Royal Yachting Association
    Royal Yachting Association
    The Royal Yachting Association is the national governing body for certain watersports in the United Kingdom. Activities it covers include:* Sailing* Windsurfing* Motor cruising* Sportsboats* Personal watercraft* Powerboat racing...

     (RYA)
  • Runcorn Locks Restoration Society
  • RYA Sailability, Royal Yachting Association
    Royal Yachting Association
    The Royal Yachting Association is the national governing body for certain watersports in the United Kingdom. Activities it covers include:* Sailing* Windsurfing* Motor cruising* Sportsboats* Personal watercraft* Powerboat racing...


S

  • Sale Cruising Club, Greater Manchester
  • Saltisford Canal Trust
  • Sankey Canal Restoration Society
  • Save Our Waterways (SOW)
  • Save the Avon, Wiltshire
  • Save The Ouse System (Protection Society), Yorkshire
  • Scottish Amateur Rowing Association
    Scottish Amateur Rowing Association
    Scottish Rowing , formerly the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association, is the governing body for the sport of rowing in Scotland. It is responsible for promoting the sport in Scotland and also for selecting crews to send to the Home International Regatta and the Commonwealth Rowing...

  • Scottish Inland Waterways Association
    Scottish Inland Waterways Association
    The Scottish Inland Waterways Association was a registered charity and association of canal societies and individual canal enthusiasts in Scotland....

     (SIWA), Scotland (now dissolved)
  • Seagull Trust
    Seagull Trust
    Seagull Trust Cruises is a waterway society and Scottish charity in Scotland, UK.The Trust was formed in 1978 and offers free canal cruising for disabled and disadvantaged persons and groups. It is the largest service provider of its kind within the UK. It is run entirely by volunteers...

    , Scotland / Disability
  • Severn Navigation Restoration Trust
  • Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust
    Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust
    The Shrewsbury & Newport Canals Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity which exists to promote the restoration of the Shrewsbury Canal and the Newport Arm of the Shropshire Union Canal...

  • Shropshire Union Canal Society
    Shropshire Union Canal Society
    Shropshire Union Canal Society is an organisation formed to promote interest in the Shropshire Union Canal.In December 1964 the Shrewsbury & Newport Canal Association was formed, with the ambition of restoring to navigation the canals between Norbury Junction and Shrewsbury...

     Ltd.
  • Shropshire Union Fly Boat Restoration Society
  • Sleaford Navigation Trust
  • Soar Boating Club, Leicestershire
  • Somerset Levels Campaign, Somerset
  • Somersetshire Coal Canal (Society)
  • Somerset Waterways Development Trust (website)
  • Southampton Canal Society
  • Stafford Boat Club, Staffordshire
  • Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Society
  • Steam Boat Association of Great Britain
  • Stourport Yacht Club
  • St Pancras Cruising Club
    St Pancras Cruising Club
    St Pancras Cruising Club is a members' association of boat owners located between Camden Town and Islington on the Regent's Canal in central London. Most boats in the basin are narrowboats, the most common form of craft on the British canals...

    , London
  • Stratford upon Avon Canal Society, Warwickshire
  • Strawberry Island Boat Club
  • Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society
  • Sussex Ouse Restoration Trust, Sussex Ouse Conservation Society

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  • Tamworth Cruising Club
  • Ted Ellis Trust Wheatfen Broad, Norfolk
  • Thames and Medway Canal Association, Kent
  • Thames Motor Yacht Club
  • Thames Sailing Barge Trust
  • Thames Traditional Boat Society
  • Thames Valley Skiff Club
    Thames Valley Skiff Club
    Thames Valley Skiff Club is an English skiff and punting club, which was founded in 1923. It is based on the River Thames in England, on the Surrey bank between Sunbury Lock and Walton on Thames....

  • Thames Vintage Boat Club
  • The Skiff Club
    The Skiff Club
    The Skiff Club is the oldest skiff and punting club in existence, having been founded in 1895. It is based on the River Thames in England, on the Middlesex bank between Teddington Lock and Kingston upon Thames....

  • Towpath Action Group
    Towpath Action Group
    The Towpath Action Group is a waterway society in the United KingdomThe group started in Manchester in 1987, and a year later it published its first report "Trouble on the Towpath" to coincide with the Inland Waterways Association's 1988 National Rally at Castlefield.The group is continuing to...

     (TAG)
  • Trent and Mersey Canal Society
  • Trent Rivers Trust Nottinghamshire
  • Tweed Foundation

U

  • Ulster Canal Trust
  • University College Boat Club (Durham)
  • University College London Boat Club
    University College London Boat Club
    University College London Boat Club is one of University College London's largest student societies, with over 100 formal members.The club is highly successful and has a rich heritage and has a stated goal of each year sending as many crews as possible to compete at the prestigious Henley Royal...

  • University of Birmingham Boat Club
    University of Birmingham Boat Club
    The University of Birmingham Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Birmingham in the UK. It currently has more than 100 members....

  • University of London Boat Club
    University of London Boat Club
    University of London Boat Club is the rowing club for the University of London, covering all the university's constituent Colleges . The club has its boat house on the River Thames in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom...

  • Upper Avon Navigation Trust
  • Upper Thames Protection Society
  • Ustinov Boat Club

W

  • Wargrave Boating Club
    Wargrave Boating Club
    Wargrave Boating Club is an English water sports club. It is based on the River Thames in England, at Wargrave on the reach above Marsh Lock....

  • Watch House Cruising club
  • Waterway Recovery Group
    Waterway Recovery Group
    The Waterway Recovery Group , founded in 1970, is the national co-ordinating body for voluntary labour on the inland waterways of the United Kingdom.-Activities:...

  • Waterways Access Project
  • Waterways Science Group
  • The Waterways Trust
    The Waterways Trust
    The Waterways Trust is an independent national charity. Since 1999 the Trust has worked with its partners to enrich people’s lives through waterways.The Trust's vision is to see the UK waterway network supported, valued and enjoyed by everyone....

  • Welsh Amateur Rowing Association
    Welsh Amateur Rowing Association
    Welsh Rowing is the governing body for the sport of rowing in Wales. It is responsible for promoting the sport in Wales and for the organisation of all national rowing competitions held in Wales, including the 'Head of the Taff' and the Welsh Open Rowing Championships...

  • Wendover Arm Trust
  • Westcountry Rivers Trust
    Westcountry Rivers Trust
    The Westcountry Rivers Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity No. 1045806 in the West Country of England, United Kingdom. The Trust was founded in 1995 and aims to protect and enhance the West Country's rivers and streams, and to work with the region's landowners, farmers and the...

     incl. Cornwall Rivers Project
  • West London Motor Cruising Club
  • Wey and Arun Canal Trust
  • Weyfarers Rowing Club
  • Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
    Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
    Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy is a centre for the sport of sailing on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England, United Kingdom. The academy building is located in Osprey Quay on the northern tip of the island, and the waters of Portland Harbour and Weymouth Bay,...

  • Wheelton Boat Club
  • Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust
    Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust
    The Wherry Yacht Charter Charitable Trust is a waterway society and registered charity number 1096073, on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads in East Anglia, England, UK...

    , Norfolk
  • Whitchurch Waterway Trust
    Whitchurch Waterway Trust
    The Whitchurch Waterway Trust is a registered charity that exists to promote the management and restoration of the Whitchurch Arm of the Llangollen Canal...

  • Wilderness Boat Owners Club
  • Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
    Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
    The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is a registered charity no. 299595, and a waterway society based in Wiltshire, England, concerned with the restoration of the Wilts & Berks Canal....

  • Windermere Steamboat Project
  • Wooden Canal Boat Society
    Wooden Canal Boat Society
    The Wooden Canal Boat Society is a waterway society and a registered charity in England, UK, based at Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester...

    , Greater Manchester
  • Worcester Birmingham Canal Society
  • Wraysbury Skiff and Punting Club
    Wraysbury Skiff and Punting Club
    Wraysbury Skiff and Punting Club is an English skiff and punting club, which was founded in 1931. It is based on the River Thames in England, on the Surrey bank between Bell Weir Lock and Runnymede....

  • Wye and Usk Foundation

See also

  • Waterway society
    Waterway society
    A Waterway society is a society, association, charitable trust, club, trust or "Friends" group involved in the restoration, preservation, use and enjoyment of waterways, e.g. a canal, river, navigation or other waterway, and their associated buildings and structures, e.g...

    , Waterway restoration
    Waterway restoration
    Waterway restoration is the activity of restoring a canal or river, including special features such as warehouse buildings, locks, boat lifts, and boats. In the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, the focus of waterway restoration is on improving navigability, while in Australia the term...

  • Waterways in the United Kingdom
    Waterways in the United Kingdom
    Waterways in the United Kingdom is a link page for any waterway, river, canal, firth or estuary in the United Kingdom.-Related topics:*Waterway, water power, navigable, navigable aqueduct, navigable river, navigable waters, navigability, Waterway society, List of waterway societies in the United...

  • List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom
  • List of rivers of England
  • List of rivers of Scotland
  • List of rivers of Wales
  • List of rivers of Ireland
  • Canals of Great Britain
  • Canals of Ireland
    Canals of Ireland
    *Boyne Navigation*Broharris Canal*Coalisland Canal *Dukart's Canal*Grand Canal*Lacy's Canal*Lagan Canal*Lecarrow Canal*Newry Canal*Royal Canal*Shannon-Erne Waterway*Strabane Canal*Ulster Canal...

  • History of the British canal system
    History of the British canal system
    The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution at a time when roads were only just emerging from the medieval mud and long trains of pack horses were the only means of "mass" transit by road of raw materials and finished products The...

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