{"id":5,"date":"2012-07-23T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:53:23","slug":"canal-river-trust-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/canal-river-trust-launches\/5","title":{"rendered":"Canal &#038; River Trust launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/sites\/3\/2012\/07\/crtlog1.gif\" alt=\"crt logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4948\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>On July 12th 2012 2000 miles of canals and rivers which had been managed by British Waterways (and other Government bodies) since nationalisation seventy years ago were transferred to a charity, the Canal and River Trust , marked by a series of local &#8216;Launches&#8217; at key waterways locations. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/attraction\/pontcysyllte-aqueduct.htm\">Pontcysyllte Aqueduct<\/a> floodlit above.)<\/p>\n<p>This is the largest single transfer of a public &#8216;quango&#8217; into the charitable sector, and will be watched closely by ministers to see if it could be a model for the future. Government funding will not cease, \u00a3800m is promised over the next 3 years, but the hope is that volunteer labour and corporate sponsors will bring new effort and income.<\/p>\n<p>Much play is being made about enabling &#8216;the 10 million people who visit and love the waterways (to) have the chance to play a greater role in making them more beautiful than ever&#8217;. However some are concerned that boating and heritage has had little mention in the launch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>On July 12th 2012 2000 miles of canals and rivers which had been managed by British Waterways (and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waterways-news"],"acf":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canaljunction.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}