National Community Boats Association
The National Community Boats Association is a waterway society, registered charity No. 1108993 and limited company No. 5331820, in the United Kingdom.
NCBA supports community boat projects and encourages more people to access the inland waterways of the UK. Its headquarters are at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole. The NCBA held a National Conference towards the end of 2008.
Member organisations
The association has over 100 member community boat projects, all over the UK.Organisations which are members of the National Community Boats Association operate boats which are specially designed and equipped to cater for people with disabilities, with learning difficulties and learning disabilities, disadvantaged groups, people with special needs, people of all ages.
These organisations carry an estimated 250,000 passengers per year from the above-mentioned groups.
Membership list
- Accessible Boating Association, Hampshire
- Adam's Ark Project, Doncaster
- Angel Community Canal Boat Trust, London
- Baldwin Boat Trust, Leicester
- BDN Guide Counties Narrowboat, Birmingham, West Midlands
- Beauchamp Lodge Settlement, London
- Birmingham City Council Youth Service Division
- Bradford Out & About Barge Association, West Yorkshire
- Brent Play Association, Wembley
- Bromley Youth Trust, Kent
- Camden Canals & Narrowboat Association
- Canal Boat Adventure Project, Cheshire
- Canal Boat Project
- Care Afloat, Skelmersdale, Lancashire
- Children's Activity & Recreational Projects, Wolverhampton
- East Manchester Community Boat Project, Hyde
- Ethel Trust Community Barge, Sheffield
- Gloucestershire Disabled Afloat Riverboats Trust
- Hampshire County Council Youth Services
- Heulwen Trust, Welshpool
- Hillingdon Narrowboats Association, Middlesex
- Kensington Foundation, Blackpool
- Laburnum Boat Club, Hackney's Community Boating Project
- London Narrow Boat Project, Luton, Bedfordshire
- Maypole Community Boat Projects, Birmingham
- Mosaic, Shaping Disability Services, Leicester
- Nottingham Narrowboat Project
- Open Lock Project
- Oxfordshire Narrowboat Trust
- Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People, Leatherhead, Surrey
- Reach Out Projects, Hertfordshire
- Re-Union, Edinburgh
- River Thames Boat Project, Kingston-upon-Thames
- Rivertime Boat Trust, Maidenhead, Berkshire
- Safe Anchor Trust, Mirfield, West Yorkshire
- South Staffordshire Narrowboat Company Ltd, Wolverhampton
- South West Herts Narrowboat Project, Hertfordshire
- St Andrew's Methodist Youth Centre, Bristol
- St John Ambulance, Northampton, and Nottinghamshire
- Stockport Canal Boat Project
- Surrey Care Trust Swingbridge Community Boat Programmes,
- Surrey County Council Outdoor Learning & Development, Surrey
- Swansea Community Boat Trust
- Thames & Kennet Narrowboat Trust, Wokingham, Berkshire
- The Bruce Charitable Trust, Hungerford
- The Bruce Wake Charitable Trust, Rutland
- The Canal Boat Project, Hertfordshire, and Harlow, Essex
- The Kingfisher Medway Trust, Faversham, Kent
- The Lyneal Trust, Shrewsbury
- The Pirate Club, London
- The Seagull Trust, Ratho, Edinburgh
- The Sobriety Project, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire
- The Wharf Narrowboat, Walsall
- The Willow Trust, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
- Tideway Adventurers Narrowboat Project, London
- Top Lock Training, Stockport
- Truman Enterprise Narrowboat Trust, Walsall
- Unity Enterprise, Govan, Scotland
- Vale of Llangollen Canal Boat Trust, Llangollen, Clwyd, Wales
- Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs
- Waterstart, Goole
- Waveney Stardust, Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Wildside Activity Centre, Wolverhampton
- Wirral Community Narrowboat Trust, Ellesmere Port
- Wooden Canal Boat Society
Training for community boat operators
NCBA also delivers training for the management of community boats.The Certificate in Community Boat Management is a nationally accredited course for helmsmen and crew members working with people who are young, elderly, disadvantaged or disabled on Class A or B Waters.
Other courses: Basic Boat Handling; Complete Crew Course; Regional Training Moderator; Senior Trainer; CCBM Training Endorsement; and Additional Course Units.
Work with offenders and young persons
NCBA is operating two special projects:- Y-AFLOAT - Involving young people in community boating
- Prisons Project - facilitating the reunion of offenders with their families