AGM Minutes 2016
Thank you to all those who attended our AGM in October - here are the minutes for those who were not able to attend.
Welcome to our AGM
The canal society AGM will be held from 8pm at the Wilmot Arms, Borrowash DE72 3HA on Tuesday 25th October. This is the notice calling all members to attend. I have attached the minutes of the last AGM and the Agenda for the coming one. As you’ll see we will have reports on progress on [...]
Word from the Chair
Dear Member, I hope you have had a pleasant summer break and avoided most of the rain. Our meetings are commencing again on Tuesday 27th Sept from 8pm at the Wilmot Arms, Derby Road Borrowash DE72 3HA. Our speaker will be John Wilkinson who is a keen boater and will tell us a little more [...]
We have lift off!
This afternoon at Draycott we welcomed back the team from the structural engineers that are looking at advising us to restore the Draycott stretch to water – this time they brought some additional equipment that involved working from the air as opposed to on the bank side. As you can see from the photograph showing [...]
Restoration of Sandiacre Lock
Our plans for the restoration of the lock are progressing again and we have now received advice from the Environment Agency that the waste contained in the lock will need to be disposed of at a recognised waste processing site. We were required to sample the contents due partly to the site being a registered [...]
We Have Water!
I’m delighted to confirm that we have now received the formal licence for water abstraction from the River Derwent. This has been achieved due to the generosity of Celanese at Spondon. They held a substantial licence for abstraction of water for their manufacturing processes. Whilst the demise of the company has been very hard for [...]
Chairman’s Update May 2016
Welcome Members, I hope you’ve received your copy of the Packet in the last few weeks. We’ve had a few comments back and I’d like to invite a few more. The magazine is for you and it makes it easier for us to improve it following your feedback. Any suggestions or details for sending you [...]
Starting to “Dig back to Derby”
This week the society started the work to dig out the canal lock situated at the end of the canal route that will be joining with the Erewash Canal. The initial work involved a small team of volunteers helping a specialist firm obtain the necessary soil samples that need to be taken for independent checking [...]
Charity Christmas Card Competition
Calling all Budding Photographers! Do you fancy getting your photo in print? We are looking for photographs suitable for our Charity Christmas card for 2016. Please submit your photos to: coordinator@derbycanal.org.uk Our favourite entry will be used for our Christmas Cards for 2016 - and we will give you 20 cards for free! Please note [...]
October saw the AGMs for the Trust and the Society
The Trust AGM was held at Long Eaton Council Offices on 20th October and was attended by Trustees representing the Councils and the Development Group. The Trust recognised that the financial position had improved following the receipt of a grant of £60,000 from Derby City Council. News of the offer of abstraction rights was greeted [...]