We currently have 5,000+ incredible humans volunteering for us who, together with our teams, work hard to protect our canals 💪 We can’t thank them enough for giving up their time to help our canals thrive, ensure they remain navigable and preserve their unique history 💙

Big turn out for our Huddersfield Narrow Canal West work party who managed to achieve tasks from towpath repairs removing vegetation from towpath and wash wall, overhanging branches barrowing ,laying over 3 ton stone Well done to all Gary Wilkinson CRT Canal & River Trust Canal & River Trust North West

If you're planning on visiting us this weekend for our first ever Steampunk event, why not seize the opportunity to take a ride through the Anderton Boat Lift or go behind the scenes with our Walking the Lift tour? 😃 #AndertonLift #Anderton #CanalRiverTrust #LifesBetterByWater

Diana from our Gloucester Task Force volunteer group plays a key role in caring for the historic Gloucester Docks. On Saturday, discover how you can too at our volunteer welcome session, between 10am and 2pm at the National Waterways Museum Gloucester. ow.ly/YTLU50Twiuz

Good morning, we have two of our lovely volunteer team leaders from the Leeds and Liverpool canal, Suzanne and Mark at JMSU Liverpool today until 5pm. Feel free to come down and sign up to be a volunteer for the Trust and learn about all the benefits that come with it 😀

It’s here! We are so excited to share our Helplines Awareness Day 2025 video with you. We want to tell the world about the power of helplines! Please help us reach as many people as possible by liking, sharing and commenting on our video using the hashtag

The Power of Helplines 🙌🏻 Please share #HelplinesAwarenessDay2025

At the start of #VolunteersWeek2025 we'd like to say a big, heartfelt thanks to everyone that gives time to help us #KeepCanalsAlive. From lock keeping to litter picking and office roles to event support, volunteers play a crucial role...so thank you!

It’s #VolunteersWeek2025 & we wanted to say a massive ‘thank you’ to all our volunteers in the North West. People like Phoebe (18), who's volunteered for 8 months, and James (80), who's been a volunteer lock keeper for 7 years, play a vital role in helping us to #KeepCanalsAlive

BIG shout out for all volunteers

Today's Towpath Taskforce session re-established access to the former workboat mooring at Tinsley Marina - soon to be the home of 'Hawk' - a 38ft workboat purchased by the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal Volunteers' Workboat Group. Canal & River Trust - Yorkshire & North East Canal & River Trust #keepcanalsalive

Massive thanks to all our volunteers and partner groups for all their hard work in helping to #keepcanalsalive Canal & River Trust - Yorkshire & North East Canal & River Trust Blue loop #VolunteersWeek2025 #VolunteersWeek #makinglifebetterbywater #volunteerbywater #sheffieldandtinsleycanal

In #VolunteersWeek2025 our hard working #Bath volunteers have painted the railings at Candy's Bridge No 184 and removed the tree that was blocking the towpath. Thank you! 🙏 #VolunteerByWater ##KeepCanalsAlive #TuesdayMotivation

#BoatsThatTweet During #VolunteersWeek we are showcasing some of the work the Hillmorton volunteers do behind the scenes. During the winter the team repaired / replaced totem poles and warning tiles on the North Oxford Canal & River Trust West Midlands Canal & River Trust Boating

Big well done to 3rd Ince Scouts Beavers and cubs for their #Bigpaddlecleanup in #Wigan at our Sport England funded paddling hub! Lots more of us but only managed to get a few pics of the wonderful chaos 😁😁 Paddle UK #canal WiganToday Canal & River Trust Canal & River Trust North West

Our #volunteers on the eastern #KennetAndAvon have been working with staff to carry out bank protection works at the Fore Bridge winding hole near Little Bedwyn. All these wonderful people helping us to #KeepCanalsAlive Thank you! 🙏#VolunteersWeek2025 #VolunteerByWater

Celebrating all our amazing volunteers at the National Waterways Museum in #Volunteersweek2025 Thank you all 💙 we really do appreciate all your hard work and the fun and good humour you bring in boatloads! Canal & River Trust Canal & River Trust Boating

The Workboat Team spent a worthwhile few hours this morning cleaning and fettling 'Hawk'. We also cut back vegetation at the mooring to improve access to the stern of the boat. Canal & River Trust - Yorkshire & North East Canal & River Trust #volunteerbywater #hawktheworkboat

140 apprentices from National Grid joined us on the #Bridgwater & #Taunton Canal for a week giving a combined total of 3,450 hours of #volunteering. They painted locks, resurfaced towpaths, replaced steps, refurbished benches and more. Amazing work from everyone National Grid UK

💪 Amazing work by #volunteers Addleshaw Goddard in #Leeds who are helping us look after #LeedsLiverpoolCanal with some serious litter removal! 😅 Can the volunteers from Leeds Building Society beat that? ❓ For today's #TuesdayTrivia can you tell us how many traffic cones are in this photo?