Up date from IWA Head Office
Moose Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000 From: [email protected] Subject: [members] IWA News Up-date- BW Property Sale To: [email protected] Dear Waterways Supporter, Thank you to all of you that have responded to our request for support with the Downing Street petition against the sell-off of British Waterways Assets on the Number 10 Web site. Your support has seen the petition rocket to 16/17th position out of 4600 petitions, with over 9000 signatures in a few days, and this rapid rise is eliciting immense national media interest. Anyone concerned about the funding of British Waterways and our canals and rivers is still invited to go to the web site and sign up in support at: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/protectourcanals/ NOTE the petition expires in 2010 ( thats next year! ) So please dont think its out of date (as some of you have) and refuse to sign up - we need everyones support NOW! - Please help us to continue to grow this petition URGENTLY. An Early Day Motion (No. 233) has now been tabled in the House of Commons by Bob Laxton MP Chair of the all party Parliamentary Waterways Group, concerning Inland Waterways and Funding, supporting the actions of the IWA, and recognising the serious threat to funding that the possible sale of British Waterways Assets might have on the operation of the canal and rivers network: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=39776&SESSION=903 IWA is also pleased that Linda Waltho MP has secured an End of Day Adjournment Debate on Funding for British Waterways on the 30th November in the House of Commons: http://www.parliament.uk/about_commons/speakers_office/edadjourns.cfm this will be televised on the Parliamentary Channel- on Freeview. Please could I ask you all to re-check and see if there is anyone else in your sphere of contacts that might sign up. to the petition today. Thank you for all of your continued support. Kindest regards, Jo Jo Gilbertson The Inland Waterways Association Non-profit Distributing Company Limited by Guarantee No 612245 Registered Charity No 212342 Registered Office: Island House Moor Road CHESHAM HP5 1WA Tel: 01494 783 453 Ext 611 E-mail: [email protected] website: www.waterways.org.uk P sustainable thinking...please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail has been scanned for all known viruses by Mdaemon SecurityPlus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail has been scanned for all known viruses by Mdaemon SecurityPlus _________________________________________________________________ Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394592/direct/01/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
