Nabo News - Issue 4 of 2011
Nabo News - Issue 4 of 2011
Nabo News - Issue 4 of 2011
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NABO <strong>News</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> 4 June <strong>2011</strong> 9<br />
the real condition <strong>of</strong> the assets and<br />
the basis <strong>of</strong> the costings to keep it<br />
all going? Will the TUPE, pensions,<br />
directors’ pay and maintenance<br />
backlog eat all the cash and lead the<br />
NWC into early trouble? The truth<br />
is that just now, nobody knows. The<br />
documents put an optimistic polish<br />
on all this but you can be sure that<br />
it is the number one question for<br />
the new Interim Trustees when<br />
they are appointed soon. So don’t<br />
get bogged down in all this in the<br />
consultation. By all means say what<br />
you think, but it is very important<br />
that we get the other parts right<br />
too. Please do make a response to<br />
the consultation. Boaters’ biggest<br />
risk for the future is apathy and lack<br />
<strong>of</strong> response!<br />
A New Era for the Waterways<br />
A consultation on the Government’s proposals for<br />
moving inland waterways into a new charity in<br />
England and Wales<br />
March <strong>2011</strong><br />
River Thames at Abingdon, photo John Slee