Fancy helping to preserve a significant part of Scotland’s industrial past? We’ve had volunteers out recently maintaining and protecting two historic canalside locations: the old...
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Heritage Lottery Fund looking to appoint committee members
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) are looking to appoint three committee members to join their Scotland Committee in 2016. They are an inclusive organisation and keen to...
The Kirk on the Canal
Polwarth Parish Church in Edinburgh is located beside The Union Canal but a new imaginative initiative in partnership with Scottish Canals and the Armed Forces...
Community Fundraiser needed for Scotland’s only waterways charity
Sessional Post – 104 days over 1 year (average 2 days per week) Daily Rate £125 per day Based at SWT Falkirk Office Immediate start...
Community groups and local businesses come together to conserve historic canals
Members of local canalside communities have picked up paint brushes, spades and seed packets to conserve and protect their historic local waterways. Co-ordinated by canal...
Vegware have adopted a stretch of the Union Canal in Edinburgh!
We’re delighted to announce that award-winning, eco-friendly packaging manufacturers Vegware have adopted a stretch of The Union Canal in Edinburgh, and what’s more are now...
Scottish Waterways Trust launches Green Action training programme to improve young people’s job prospects in Falkirk
Scottish Waterways Trust is now recruiting applicants for Green Action, a free youth employability programme based at The Falkirk Wheel. Made possible with Young Start...
Butterfly and Bee Benches by the Boats
Volunteers from the Inverness Men’s Shed have made two beautiful oak benches in the shape of a butterfly and a bee which were installed at...
Huge thanks to our first fundraiser!
A huge well done and thank you to our first Power Hour fundraiser, Melissa Moore, who cycled the towpath from Edinburgh to Glasgow at the weekend...
Falkirk ‘canal college’ volunteers up for Heritage Award
The efforts of the young volunteers or ‘Angels’ involved in the Scottish Waterways Trust canal college project are to be celebrated, as they go up...