WRG GOES BACK TO THE HEART

摘要

A quick glance at the map which accompanies the Waterway Recovery Group 2019 Canal Camps booklet gives the impression that there's something of a Midlands emphasis on this year's planned programme of week-long working holidays volunteering on canal restoration projects. Yes, there are some far-flung projects being supported in Wales, East Anglia, Lancashire and the deep south, but there's definitely a cluster within 40 miles or so of Birmingham.Was that always the plan? No, when WRG, the volunteer offshoot of The Inland Waterways Association, begins planning for the year ahead, it invites canal trusts and societies all over the country to ask for camps - and puts together a programme based on matching its resources to the work that it's offered, wherever it is. And this year the traditional canal heartlands of the Midlands will benefit a great deal from WRG's input. But as WRG Chairman Mike Palmer puts it: "Although it might happen that our sites for this year aren't as varied as they sometimes are, we canguarantee that the work will be very varied."