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Islington’s Angel Boat receives prestigious award

Royal recognition for volunteers’ work

The Angel Boat (Angel Community Canal Boat Trust) is delighted to have received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (announced  on 2^nd June 2014).  The award recognises the tremendous amount of unpaid time and hard work which has been provided by our volunteers since 1976 in managing, running, crewing and maintaining our charity’s Islington-based community canal boat, and the benefit that this has brought to our local community.  As the official citation recognises, our volunteers have enabled many thousands of “young, disadvantaged, elderly and isolated people on day and residential trips to enjoy the waterways’ environment, and experience working together as crew and living aboard”. 

The Angel Boat and some volunteers on its Islington mooring

The award comes at a time when the latest round of local authority budget cuts is expected to see the end of the charity’s existing core funding under a service agreement with Islington Council.  Volunteers will now have to spend much more time on seeking alternative funding streams to secure the Angel Boat’s future.

 See press release

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• Learn about our environment and the history of our waterways
• See London from a unique perspective
• Live aboard and enjoy the countryside.

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Last updated: 26 June 2014