Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Welcome to the monthly update and thanks to David for holding the fort during the transition from Society to the Trust. I’m pleased to say that it has all happened now and took place really smoothly. [...]
ARTEMIS - "Aquatic Remote Technology Environmental Mitigation (and) Intercept System" #Cleaner Rivers: Now and Forever Article submitted by Archit Sharma, Technical Owner for ARTEMIS (Manufacturing Engineer at Rolls-Royce). Back in 2019, the Derby & Sandiacre Canal Trust (DSCT) started construction of the Derby Riverboat project (now known as "Outram"), an all-electric narrowboat. Outram has [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; I have been tasked again with putting together this months newsletter to let you all know what is happening. We are now on the Covid 'road map' to trying to get the activities [...]
Dear Members, Stepping Aside Firstly, Eddy has, for personal reasons and the upcoming merger of the Trust and Society, decided to step back from any organizational role within the Society and Trust, hence the task of this update has fallen to me. I know he will be greatly missed and I would like to [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Hello again! At last, the days are beginning to draw out, even if it has brought the snow season with it! Kate Birtles Award 2020 I have at least had the pleasure of presenting Don [...]
Dear Members of the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter; Hello again, Still here in lockdown - but at least the shortest day has gone and the sun is fighting back along with the spring flowers popping up. Working Parties suspended Not a lot [...]
Covid-19 Update The Governments restrictions, regarding the new Tier5 Lockdown that has now gone nationwide. This means that we are all restricted to staying at home and going out to shop for food only. Our working parties are therefore cancelled on all sites, and at the cottages, until further notice. We will review this in line [...]
Hello, All. As you will have seen on the news, the Government has moved our region into Tier 4 restrictions, to try to control the spread of the new Covid-19 variant. The rules for Tier 4 state that we should stay at home, except for work or volunteering, only travel to do essential food [...]
Autumn 2020 Packet is out now! A quick note that the Autumn 2020 Packet has now been made available on the website, via the link here. We hope you enjoy it; there has been plenty of progress although slowed by the current pandemic. There are various ways to follow us - all listed at the bottom [...]
Well, it has happened. The Government have decided that we need a second full lockdown to try and slow down the spread of the Covid virus. The Trust Directors have taken the following decisions: As, when we went into Tier 2 restrictions, all our Gardening working parties will continue to be cancelled, until [...]