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CRT’s skewed spending

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It is possible to see the priorities of an organisation by what they spend their money on. On London waterways, CRT spends more money on enforcement than on boaters’ facilities.

The cost of wages & equipment for Licensing Support Officers and Rangers and Mooring Rangers in 2020 was roughly £371k. Additionally, from October to the end of December CRT spent £24,840 on the District Enforcement in ‘safety’ zones. CRT has budgeted an extra £180k for District Enforcement for this year. Enforcement isn’t the only thing they like to spend their money on. 

For 2020 Stuart Mills, the Investment Officer, received a salary and benefits totalling £236,936.  CRT also paid the head of CRT, Richard Parry, a salary and benefits totalling,£226,346.  It cost CRT £463,282 for just two salaries in one year. 

We we’re unable to calculate how much the CRT executive team costs in total as the two salaries mentioned were the only ones published, there was no data for the rest of the team, so we can only imagine! However, in the same year CRT spent only £350K on boater facilities on the London Waterways. 

So to recap, the figures are as follows: 

£395K for enforcement on London Waterways
£463K on the salary and benefits of just two staff at the CRT executive team
and just £350K on boaters facilities on the London Waterways.

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Stop the boat cull, help needed

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Stop the boat cull campaign and NBTA London need funds. We are doing a crowdfunder below but we also need help fundraising. Please email nbtalondon@gmail.com saying you would like to help us fundraise.

For the crowdfunder (which charges a 2.9% fee + 25p on each donation) here: https://gofund.me/20394ebd

To make sure all your donation goes the campaign/ NBTA London and not crowdfunding company, donation straight to our bank account:

National Bargee Travellers Association London

Account number : 32390422

Sort code: 23-05-80

NBTA London has been relentlessly campaigning to stop the boat cull. Our continuous pressure has managed to get the Canal and River Trust (CRT) to back down on a proportion of the boat culling ‘safety’ zone’ plans.

Yet CRT is still implementing the ‘no mooring’ areas of the ‘safety’ zone plans, which unfairly reduces the number of moorings. On top of this CRT has further plans to impinge on boaters by turning 120 mooring spaces into 40 new chargeable moorings and developers are trying to reduce mooring spaces in Harlesden.

Our way of life is under threat from the barrage of boatee bashing from CRT and co. We must continue to take on their agenda of ridding of us from the waterways. But it takes money to do this, from campaign leaflets to the informative newsletters, banners and placards, amongst many other things.

Please donate as much as possible and help ensure that we are a community that cannot be flushed away.

You’re also welcome to get involved in the campaign:

https://nbtalondon.wordpress.com/about/welcome-to-the-nbta/

Stop the boat Cull!

Donations anything upwards from £5 upwards

£10 would cover the cost of the online meetings and caseworker’s phone number for one month.

£20 will pay for 200 posters

£25 pays for month rent on the shared office space

£40 will pay for 200 newsletters

£70 pays for a printed campaign banner for a boat