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The Basingstoke Canal Society is a registered charity and your valued donations will help us fund vital works to maintain this beautiful and valued space for us all to continue to enjoy.
Your membership will make a difference. Become a member for as little as £15 per year. Your annual donation helps us continue our work and projects to maintain the Canal.
Enjoy the Canal from a different angle. Find out more and book your tickets online to experience the Basingstoke Canal at a peaceful pace from Woking or Odiham.
DONATE
The Basingstoke Canal Society is a registered charity and your valued donations will help us fund vital works to maintain this beautiful and valued space for us all to continue to enjoy.
BECOME A MEMBER
Your membership will make a difference. Become a member for as little as £15 per year. Your annual donation helps us continue our work and projects to maintain the Canal.
BOOK A BOAT TRIP
Enjoy the Canal from a different angle. Find out more and book your tickets online to experience the Basingstoke Canal at a peaceful pace from Woking or Odiham.
Discover the Basingstoke Canal
Volunteer with us
Join over 300 other volunteers, meet new people, make friends and support this beautiful green space.
Whether you'd like to be out in the fresh air or help more behind the scenes, check out our latest openings or get in touch to find out how you could help.
Visit our online shop
If you're looking for a gift for a loved one or even yourself, take a look in our online shop for useful publications, books, tea towels, jigsaws and more!
Even better, all sales provide vital funds for us to continue our work.
Latest news
Last week we posted about our Conver and the BCS Volunteers who spend their time clearing Hydrocotyle.
We also told you that in the last year alone our Society volunteers have given over 32,000 hours to assist the Canal Authority (BCA).
But not every volunteer role within the Society has their hours totalled up and indeed there are many roles behind the scenes where our volunteers give their time to make the BCS as successful as it is.
Click on the link below 👇👇👇 to see some of the current vacancies & how to join the Basingstoke Canal Society in one of our exciting volunteer opportunities.
basingstoke-canal.org.uk/volunteer/volunteering-roles/
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If you would like to know more or you want to apply to become a volunteer then click on one of the buttons below and we will contact you.
🎅🚢 Santa Cruises 2025!🎄✨
📅 Dates, times, prices and terms & conditions are now live – check them out here:
👉 www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/countryside/sites/visitor-information/basingstoke-canal/s...
🆕 New this year: You can now book online! Aswell as queuing or calling.
🔗 The booking link goes live at 9am on Monday 29th September – don’t miss out!
Another wonderful Corporate Volunteering day with the 18 staff from Premier Tech Water & Environment. This was a very hot day back in June; they were split into 2 groups led by our BCS volunteer leaders Dave & Keith, Graham & Heather and set to work on two projects painting at Lock 28 and bench staining & maintenance at the Canal Centre.
Feedback from the team was that “they all had very good time despite the heat & it would be good to do it again next year”
Do you work for a company who would like to do a Corporate Volunteering Day (Corporate Social Responsibility Day)
Please contact our volunteer Maddy at-:
basingstoke-canal.org.uk/corporate-supporters/
You may think a canal would pretty much take care of itself?
But take a look at these photos (with thanks to Liz Dodwell, taken from her book 'My Mother Bought a Canal') and you will see how sad the Basingstoke Canal was before its epic restoration.
With grateful thanks to everyone who helped then and those who today give their skill and time voluntarily to allow us the benefit of our beautiful local canal.
If you would like to join the Basingstoke Canal Society here is the link:
basingstoke-canal.org.uk/become-a-member/
Madeleine and Edith came on our public boat trip from Odiham yesterday and drew these wonderful kingfishers! Well done girls and thank you mum Winnie for allowing us to share them with you.
More public boat trips next week - book here!
basingstoke-canal.org.uk/book-a-boat-trip/john-pinkerton/public-trips/
basingstoke-canal.org.uk/book-a-boat-trip/kitty/public-trips/
Clearing Hydrocotyle/Floating Pennywort weed is a constant battle on the Canal.
Our volunteers have a machine that really helps with weed clearing - the Conver.
Here’s some photos & video of the Conver busy clearing Hydrocotyle and occasionally coming in handy to get other things out of the canal too.
The Conver is normally based in Woking but more recently has moved down to the junction with the Wey Navigation and is working its way back clearing large sections of Hydrocotyle.
This an excellent example of how the BCS supports the upkeep of the Canal; the Society funded the purchase of this specialist Conver boat for the BCA and we operate it with our fully trained Society volunteers.
Basingstoke Canal Authority (BCA) manage the Canal on behalf of the two owning county councils, Surrey & Hampshire, but rely heavily on our Society Volunteers who contribute over 32,000 hours per year helping to keep the Basingstoke Canal alive and the towpath and navigation safe and open for everyone to use & enjoy.
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NAVIGATION UPDATE
Please see latest update below.
Who’s looking for a short break on the Basingstoke Canal from Odiham, Hampshire?October Deals now in! Short Breaks from £618 including; bedding, towels, diesel and gas. To find out more look here galleonmarine.co.uk/our-narrowboats/
Not our beloved local canal, but you never know, someone may be interested in continuing with this amazing opportunity?🚨 A rare piece of British heritage is up for grabs!
After 40 years, the family behind Tiverton’s beloved horse-drawn barge are retiring and they're looking for the right person to take the reins 🐴🚤
Listen here ➡️ bbc.in/473wd2I
Canal towpath summer cut update from the BCA (Basingstoke Canal Authority) details in their post shared below 👇
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