Donation boost for Renishaw
PRESS RELEASE 23rd December 2020 The Barnsley, Dearne & Dove Canals Trust has donated over £22,000 to the Chesterfield Canal Trust. This money will go to the Rewatering Renishaw project.
Read MoreEast Midlands Chamber Charity of the Year
11th December 2020 You may remember the EMC Press Release at this time last year, click here to see it. A year on, we have just received the following. Needless to say, we are very grateful to Dawn Edwards and the East Midlands Chamber.
Read More1000 hours and counting
11th December 2020 Graham Voss is one of our best known volunteers. He looks after the towpath on the Derbyshire section of the canal, principally between Tapton Lock and Hollingwood Hub. He has been doing this for many years and today he clocked up his 1,000th hour of towpath maintenance.
Read MoreRewatering Renishaw
PRESS RELEASE by the Inland Waterways Association 30th November 2020 £50,000 was awarded to Rewatering Renishaw Phase 1a project as part of IWA’s Waterways in Progress Grants
Read MoreCanal features on logo for ambitious town project
PRESS RELEASE Pupils get creative to design a new logo for ambitious town project By Josh Marsh – 17 November 2020 Pupils at Springwell Community College were challenged to create a new logo to capture the spirit of a major project which aims to regenerate their town. Almost 70 young people submitted their designs to the Staveley Town…
Read MoreFree Chesterfield Canal History Book
24th November 2020 We are offering a free copy of our Chesterfield Canal Trust History Book with every order from our online shop. Click here to see the range of items that we sell online.
Read MoreWhy not join the Trust?
Have you ever used our canal for walking, cycling, fishing, canoeing, paddleboarding or boating? Do you enjoy the wildlife which lives in, on and around it?
Read MoreAnother Green Flag for Hollingwood Hub
14th October 2020 PRESS RELEASE Today, parks and green spaces across the country will be raising their Green Flag Award with pride in a year when millions of people have seen the value of having great quality green spaces on their doorstep. Nowhere has this been more obvious than along the country’s canal towpaths.
Read MoreNew Waterside video released
12th October 2020 Chesterfield Waterside has produced a new augmented reality fly through of the site. Click here to watch it. Waterside is a £340 million, high quality, mixed-use, sustainable regeneration scheme being built across 16 hectares on the edge of the town centre. It is set in a canal-side environment, adjacent to the River…
Read MoreThe building of the Hub
8th November 2020 Hollingwood Hub is the home of the Chesterfield Canal Trust. It has been open for 9½ years. It is often used as a model of good practice, e.g. How water adds value (starts at 5:40), a video made by the Canal & River Trust and Waterways in Progress (starts at 3:10), a…
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