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Canal & River Trust convenes new Cultural Heritage Advisory Group


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PRESS RELEASE

 

15th April 2021  

 

CANAL & RIVER TRUST CONVENES NEW CULTURAL HERITAGE ADVISORY GROUP

 

The Canal & River Trust, the waterways and wellbeing charity which looks after 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales and is responsible for the third largest collection of listed buildings in the UK, has confirmed appointments to a new Cultural Heritage Advisory Group.

 

The Group will support the Trust in combining effective conservation and interpretation of the built and cultural heritage of the waterways, with promoting their use, enjoyment and value for wellbeing. It will provide the Trust’s management with specialist advice and guidance.

 

Eight unpaid volunteer experts from the cultural heritage field have been appointed to the newly formed Group, to be chaired by architectural historian Nigel Barker-Mills.  They have been appointed for an initial term of up to three years.

 

The Group will collaborate with other Trust Advisory Groups; and will have a forward plan for topics which members will help shape to ensure that key challenges of relevance to the Trust in the field are addressed.

 

Richard Parry, chief executive at Canal & River Trust, said: “Waterways are part of the fabric of our nation and remain amongst the finest examples of industrial heritage in the world. The Trust is charged with protecting and conserving this heritage for future generations.  At the same time, we must ensure that we are meeting the needs of the boaters and communities who use, live and work alongside our waterways – realising the unique health and wellbeing benefits they offer. The impressive wealth of skills and experience that the Group bring with them will prove invaluable in meeting this challenge.”

 

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For further media requests please contact:

Fran Read, Canal & River Trust

m 07796 610 427 e fran.read@canalrivertrust.org.uk

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Is the chairman unpaid? 

What other Trust Advisory Groups exist? 

   just askin'..... 

PS I've got a pair of young stoats living close by, just sayin'

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4 minutes ago, Athy said:

Perhaps Canal Stoat magazine will run a feature on them.

I wish they had @Athy, because I saw them one night and thought they were rats with rather cheery faces and Price Charles ears, pre 1994 ears..... 

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48 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

 

are you sure? because they are weasily mistaken for a stoatally different animal ;) 

We have a dead weasel down the lane. For those that dont know stoats have a black tip to the tail

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I have only seen them at dusk, at first I thought they were rats, but they definately have bushy tails, not weasels, much plumper and bigger. I looked at some photos they are young mink, I thought they were dark brown or black. 

 

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3 hours ago, LadyG said:

I have only seen them at dusk, at first I thought they were rats, but they definately have bushy tails, not weasels, much plumper and bigger. I looked at some photos they are young mink, I thought they were dark brown or black. 

 

I have seen white mink but not very common, When I worked for Birds Eye Foods they had a mink farm and no it didn't go into the burgers.

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This announcement is seen by many as CRT's reaction to being caught trying to sell Braunston Stop House, a protected asset which is Grade II listed.

The fact is that CRT had a Heritage Advisory Group. The following is a cut and paste from a post on facebook -
 

 
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By allowing himself to be quoted, CRT's chief executive is lying by omission.
 
The fact is that since 2012, CRT has had a Heritage Advisory Group (HAG). In 2017 Nigel Barker-Mills replaced Sir Neil Cossons (retired 24 April 2017) as chair of HAG.
NB-M chaired a HAG meeting on 10 November 2017 where HAG appeared to be outnumbered by CRT bodies.
No record exists of any subsequent meetings.
 
Almost two years later a 2017-19 Heritage Report was produced (dated September 2019). It contained a forward by Nigel Barker-Mills, Chair of Heritage Advisory Group and Richard Parry, Chief Executive who stated -
 
"I would especially like to welcome is Nigel Barker-Mills, the new Chair of our Heritage Advisory Group."
 
(Remember NB-M had been chair for about two years at this point but only chaired one meeting!)
 
Sometime in the six months following the report the moribund HAG was wound up. According to the 2019/20 Annual report -
 
"The Heritage Advisory Group and Volunteering Advisory Group were both disbanded during the financial year."
 
Well over three years since its last meeting and eighteen months after it was formally disbanded, CRT has reconvened HAG under its old chair.
 
Perhaps they thought that by putting "Cultural" in front of the name, nobody would notice ...

 

 
 
CRT have also refused an information request by NABO asking for information on listed buildings sold.


 

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