Association of Waterways Cruising Clubs
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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 moorings.
The Association grew quickly from the original four clubs to eighteen, and it published its first handbook giving club locations and phone numbers. In the late Seventies, there were eighty clubs, and a regional structure was adopted.
Today, the AWCC represents over twenty thousand affiliated boat owners, through their membership of more than a hundred cruising clubs. The association
enters consultation
s and negotiations with British Waterways
, the Environment Agency
and other bodies, and it is an Associate Member of the Parliamentary Waterways Group.
Members of AWCC:
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...
and umbrella organisation in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, UK. It was founded in the early 1960s by the St Pancras, Dunstable
Dunstable
Dunstable is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, 30 miles north of London. These geographical features form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north.-Etymology:In...
, Uxbridge
Uxbridge
Uxbridge is a large town located in north west London, England and is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon. It forms part of the ceremonial county of Greater London. It is located west-northwest of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres...
and Lee and Stort boat clubs as an inter-club scheme for an emergency
Emergency
An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, although in some situations, mitigation may not be possible and agencies may only be able to offer palliative...
service for boaters, and for safe overnight moorings.
The Association grew quickly from the original four clubs to eighteen, and it published its first handbook giving club locations and phone numbers. In the late Seventies, there were eighty clubs, and a regional structure was adopted.
Today, the AWCC represents over twenty thousand affiliated boat owners, through their membership of more than a hundred cruising clubs. The 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...
enters consultation
Consultation
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s and negotiations with British Waterways
British Waterways
British Waterways is a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom, serving as the navigation authority in England, Scotland and Wales for the vast majority of the canals as well as a number of rivers and docks...
, the Environment Agency
Environment Agency
The Environment Agency is a British non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Government Sponsored Body of the Welsh Assembly Government that serves England and Wales.-Purpose:...
and other bodies, and it is an Associate Member of the Parliamentary Waterways Group.
Members of AWCC:
- Airedale Boat ClubAiredale Boat ClubAiredale 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....
, Ash Tree Boat Club, Ashby Canal AssociationAshby Canal AssociationThe 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....
, Aylesbury Canal SocietyAylesbury Canal SocietyThe 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.... - Basingstoke Canal Boating Club, Black Buoy Cruising Club, Boaters Christian Fellowship, Bridgewater Motor Boat Club, Byfleet Boat Club
- Coombeswood Canal Trust, Coventry Canal Society, Cutweb Internet Boating Club
- Derby Motor Boat Club
- Electric Boat Association
- Lichfield Cruising Club, Lincoln Boat Club, Longwood Boat Club, Lymm Cruising Club
- Mersey Motor Boat Club
- Norbury Cruising Club, North Cheshire Cruising Club
- Oundle Cruising Club
- Peterborough Yacht Club, Pewsey Wharf Boat Club
- Rammey Marsh Cruising Club
- Sale Cruising Club, Saul Junction Boat Owners Club, Sea Otter Owners Club, Soar Boating Club, South Pennine Boat Club, Stafford Boat Club, St Pancras Cruising ClubSt Pancras Cruising ClubSt 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...
, Seamaster Club, Strawberry Island Boat Club - Tamworth Cruising Club
- Watch House Cruising Club, Waterway Recovery GroupWaterway Recovery GroupThe Waterway Recovery Group , founded in 1970, is the national co-ordinating body for voluntary labour on the inland waterways of the United Kingdom.-Activities:...
Cruising Club, West London Motor Cruising Club, Wheelton Boat Club, Wilderness Boat Owners Club