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• Bank Holiday Narrowboat Rides! Monday May 27th

  Enjoy a narrowboat ride on The Grantham Canal this coming Monday!  11am – 4pm Refreshments served on board Adults:  Only £2.00  Children: 1.00 All trips depart from Harlaxton Wharf, The Drift, between Harlaxton and Barrowby. NG32 1AE The Grantham Canal Information Stand will be at the wharf, where Volunteers will be on hand to answer ...

• Subscribe to “Bridge”, our regular Newsletter

  Sign up to our monthly news-letter. It is available to all at absolutely no charge! Just click on this link and send a message asking to receive your monthly copy of “Bridge” by email. And when you have seen what we are achieving please join the Grantham Canal Society. Latest Issue  Bridge 43 April 2013 ...

• Latest News

  …The Three shires – A Regeneration project… Visit our Photos and Videos section to see our new video “The Three Shires – Our Regeneration project” to learn more about our activities and how to support the Grantham Canal society   …Grantham Canal in the news… You can read / watch the BBC Look North report ...

• Become a Grantham Canal Volunteer

  Are you a boater, a walker, an angler, a nature-lover or an admirer of the engineering genius of our forebears?  Do you believe in the restoration of our uniquely British heritage and enjoy the rural idyll that is the Grantham Canal? ….then join our ever growing band of volunteers and help us breath life back ...

• The Grantham Canal Partnership

  The Grantham Canal Partnership (GCP) is the ‘umbrella’ organisation formed in 1997 to coordinate the efforts of the principal parties concerned with the future of the Grantham Canal The GCP’s Chairman is Michael Rowen ‘The GCP is committed to promoting the restoration of the Grantham Canal to full navigable status – doing so in such ...

• Diary

  Keep your eye on the Grantham Canal Diary section to keep up to date on work parties, where the society stall will be next appearing and other society news. If you become aware of events and activities that you believe the GCS would be interested in becoming involved please contact us via info@granthamcanal.com Volunteer Activity Days ...

• Heritage Lottery Fund Update

  The Grantham Canal Partnership supported by the Grantham Canal Society submitted an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to restore locks 14 and 15. The emphasis of the bid was to undertake the lock restoration using volunteers as part of a national waterway skill training initiative being developed by the Inland Waterway’s Association, with ...

• The Three Shires Trip Boat

  You may have enjoyed the rural idyll that is the Grantham Canal from the towpath – now join us on the water and see the countryside and its wildlife from a different perspective. From the ducks to the heron, from the fish to the kingfisher as they wend their way through the gently waving rushes ...

• Sponsors

  The Grantham Canal Society and Partnership extends warm thanks for the continued support of John A. Stephens, the East Midlands largest independent suppliers of building and construction materials. The Inland Waterways Association has been very supportive of the Grantham Canal Society and Partnership over many years.  The IWA provided a very substantial grant in 2010 that ...