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Swansea Canal Society receives the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
The Swansea Canal Society has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. It is the MBE for volunteer groups.
“Regenerating the Swansea Canal as a community asset for active recreation and as a heritage visitor destination.”
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The Week Ahead: Sunday 15th – Saturday 21st September 2024
Sunday 15th September: Canoes & Kayaks for hire at Coed Gwilym Park, Clydach. First hire 10am, last hire 2pm. Cost of 45 minute hire: Canadian canoe £10; Raft (two canoes) £15; Single kayak £5, Double kayak £10. Booking not needed. Full details and conditions under “Canoes” on our website. Tuesday 17th September: Work Party: Those…
Read More Work Party: Tuesday 10th September 2024
Quite a nice day today – fairly mild, fairly sunny and no rain. The troops were at two locations – Bridge 8 and the Swansea Canal Centre. By Bridge 8, the crack team of Lance, Rowan, Bob and Chris filled the hessian bags. We had an apprentice trundler today: Sharon added a new string to…
Read More Work Party: Tuesday 3rd September 2024
Just a quick summary of this weeks activities, as your usual ace correspondent has taken himself and his camera off on holiday! Job number one was to clear a big ivy-clad bough that was laying across the towpath downstream of Coed Gwilym Park, which had not quite detached from the tree. Phil was quick to…
Read More The Week Ahead: Sunday 1st – Saturday 7th September 2024
Sunday 1st September: Canoes & Kayaks for hire at Coed Gwilym Park, Clydach. First hire 10am, last hire 2pm. Cost of 45 minute hire: Canadian canoe £10; Raft (two canoes) £15; Single kayak £5, Double kayak £10. Booking not needed. Full details and conditions under “Canoes” on our website. Tuesday 3rd September: Work Party: Those…
Read More Work Party: Tuesday 27th August 2024
Lovely working weather today – warm and dry – for the volunteers as they met at Bridge 8 to continue the work of previous weeks. Dave and Martin started the day by trimming vegetation and bashing the last bit of balsam. Martin then moved on to join Aled, Sharon, Chris and Gordon on Bridge 8…
Read More “Pirates” – 25th August 2024
Our annual “Pirates” event on the canal threatened to be a complete wash-out this year. The morning started with mist in the air, then drizzle, then heavy rain so we wondered what would be next. Even the ducks looked anxious! Undaunted, the pirate volunteers soon had everything shipshape and Bristol fashion. A few brave families…
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