The Association of Waterways Cruising clubs is a

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, UK. It was founded in the early 1960s by the St Pancras,

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and Lee and Stort boat clubs as an inter-club scheme for an

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service for boaters, and for safe overnight moorings. The Association grew quickly from the original four clubs to eighteen, and it published its first handbook giving club locations and phone numbers. In the late Seventies, there were eighty clubs, and a regional structure was adopted. Today, the AWCC represents over twenty thousand affiliated boat owners, through their membership of more than a hundred cruising clubs. The

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enters

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s and negotiations with

British Waterways British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom. It served as the navigation authority for the majority of canals and a number of rivers and docks in England, Scotlan ...

, the Environment Agency and other bodies, and it is an Associate Member of the Parliamentary Waterways Group. Members of AWCC: * Airedale Boat Club, Ash Tree Boat Club, Ashby Canal Association, Aylesbury Canal Society * Basingstoke Canal Boating Club, Black Buoy Cruising Club, Boaters Christian Fellowship, Bridgewater Motor Boat Club, Byfleet Boat Club * Coombeswood Canal Trust, Coventry Canal Society, Cutweb Internet Boating Club * Derby Motor Boat Club * Electric Boat Association * Lichfield Cruising Club, Lincoln Boat Club, Longwood Boat Club, Lymm Cruising Club * Mersey Motor Boat Club * Norbury Cruising Club, North Cheshire Cruising Club * Oundle Cruising Club * Peterborough Yacht Club, Pewsey Wharf Boat Club * Rammey Marsh Cruising Club * Sale Cruising Club, Saul Junction Boat Owners Club, Sea Otter Owners Club, Soar Boating Club, South Pennine Boat Club, Stafford Boat Club, St Pancras Cruising Club, Seamaster Club, Strawberry Island Boat Club * Tamworth Cruising Club * Watch House Cruising Club,

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Cruising Club, West London Motor Cruising Club, Wheelton Boat Club, Wilderness Boat Owners Club

External links

Official Website
*[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmenvtra/317/31703.htm House of Commons Select Committee on Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Fourth Report: List of Witnesses incl. AWCC]
House of commons Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Eight Report: No. 7, Ev 144: AWCCAWCC Press Release for the Campaign Cruise to the Houses of Parliament in protest against Defra cuts
Waterways organisations in the United Kingdom {{water-transport-stub

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