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 The Ashby Canal Association (ACA) is a waterway society and a registered charity No. 1063566, in Leicestershire and Staffordshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to ...

Aylesbury Canal Society The Aylesbury Canal Society is a waterway society on the Grand Union Canal, Buckinghamshire, England. The society was launched in 1971 to promote the use of the Aylesbury Arm, and to run moorings leased from British Waterways. Aylesbury Basin w ...

* Basingstoke Canal Boating Club, Black Buoy Cruising Club, Boaters Christian Fellowship,

Bridgewater Motor Boat Club Bridgewater or Bridgwater may refer to: Companies * Bridgewater Associates, global investment manager * Bridgewater Systems, Canadian software company Education * Bridgewater College, Virginia, United States * Bridgewater High School (disambi ...

, Byfleet Boat Club * Coombeswood Canal Trust, Coventry Canal Society, Cutweb Internet Boating Club *

Derby Motor Boat Club Derby ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent, Derbyshire, River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is ...

* Electric Boat Association *

Lichfield Cruising Club Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west of ...

Lincoln Boat Club Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol ...

Longwood Boat Club Longwood may refer to: Australia * Longwood, Victoria India * Longwood, Shimla New Zealand * Longwood, New Zealand Republic of Ireland * Longwood, County Meath United Kingdom * Longwood, West Yorkshire, England * Longwood, Saint Helena, loca ...

Lymm Cruising Club Lymm is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England, which incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rushgreen an ...

Mersey Motor Boat Club The River Mersey () is in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. For centuries it has formed par ...

Norbury Cruising Club Norbury is an List of areas of London, area of south London. It shares the postcode London SW16 with neighbouring Streatham. Norbury is south of Charing Cross. Etymology The name Norbury derives from ''North Burh'', (North Borough). Some lo ...

North Cheshire Cruising Club North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

* 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 Tamworth may refer to: Places England * Tamworth, Staffordshire * Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency) Australia * Tamworth, New South Wales ** Tamworth Airport * Tamworth Regional Council * Electoral district of Tamworth United States and Cana ...

* Watch House Cruising Club,

Waterway Recovery Group The Waterway Recovery Group (WRG), founded in 1970, is the national co-ordinating body for voluntary labour on the inland waterways of the United Kingdom. History The formation of the Waterway Recovery Group was a logical progression from events ...

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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