Heritage Lottery Fund Application
The Trust are pleased to announce that at the end of February 2014 the Trust formally applied for Heritage Lottery Funding to commence the restoration of the Derby Canal at Sandiacre. The bid [...]
Work Party Press Coverage
It is wonderful to see a recent work party featured in the Derby Telegraph complete with a photograph of Scott examining his handiwork on a stretch of hedge that he has just layered. [...]
An Employer’s Donation
The Trust has recently received a donation from the DHL UK Foundation; to whom we express our thanks. Our regular volunteer Eddy Case, who works for DHL, was able to submit an application [...]
Sandiacre Lock
Last Sunday (26th January) an intrepid group of Society members took the display stall to Sandiacre to coincide with the Canal and River Trust open day where the public were invited to climb [...]
2014 Gets off to a good start
The first working party of the new year brought us a sharp frosty start, 12 volunteers turned out to brave the weather, but as the morning progressed the sun came out and shone [...]
Final Working Party of 2013
Another fine, dry, but chilly Sunday morning found seven hardy souls working on the Draycott stretch, hedge laying and general tidying up. We had two teams laying, one team working from the east [...]