{"id":6548,"date":"2013-10-05T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2013-10-05T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T18:00:35","slug":"canal-river-trust-impact-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6548","title":{"rendered":"Canal &#038; River Trust: Impact Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Canal &amp; River Trust, which has IHBC past Chair John Yates as the institute\u2019s nominated representative on its Board, has released its first Impact Report since its foundation in July 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In that time, the Trust has raised \u00a37 million in voluntary donations, attracted 17 corporate partnerships with organisations from Google to Marks &amp; Spencer and recruited over 1,000 regular volunteers and 2,700 Friends.<\/p>\n<p>The Trust have also set up a specialised apprenticeship scheme with Leeds College of Building and launched an educational website to help teachers link information about the nation&#8217;s waterways to the National Curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This country is blessed with the most extraordinary legacy of inland waterways. From their earliest days they have been transforming lives and communities. They are not here by accident.\u2019 said Tony Hales, Chief Executive of the Trust. \u2018The creation of the Trust is a lifeline for our canals and rivers. It gives us all the chance to work together to ensure they survive and benefit our children, and their children after them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For the full report, see<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/canalrivertrust.org.uk\/media\/library\/4341.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For the background and IHBC\u2019s links see<\/span>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4412\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For the Trust see<\/span>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/canalrivertrust.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/canalrivertrust.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canal &amp; River Trust, which has IHBC past Chair John Yates as the institute\u2019s nominated representative on its Board, has released its first Impact Report since its foundation in July 2012. In that time, the Trust has raised \u00a37 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=6548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}