Breakdown service for canal boats hosts day of music, fun and fundraising in Stafford - here's who's performing
A breakdown organisation for canal boats will be holding a charity day of fun and music to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
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Stafford-based River Canal Rescue (RCR), which covers 3,600 miles of inland waterways, holds a summer party to mark its quarter century on June 8.
The event at Stafford Riverway Link Grounds in Baswich will be open to the public from 1pm to 8pm.
The event aims to bring together the local communities, boaters, as well as RCR members past and present.
There will be live music from jazz quartet the Bill Bailey band, country, folk and traditional Irish songs from Kevin O’Regan, and country and western and rock 'n' roll covers from Johnny Flinton. Blitz will provide rock and indie music, while there will be pop, rock, country and indie sessions from the Oss Road band.
Food and drink will also be available, taking in Indian and Caribbean dishes, barbecue, pizza, crepes, toasties, doughnuts, candyfloss and ice-cream. There will also be cocktails, real ale and cider, wine, iced and bubble tea and frappes.
Other attractions include wood carving, art, books, antiques, confectionary, raffles, prize draws, tombolas, holistic head spas facial treatments, as well as honey tasting, while there will be fairground games, a bouncy castle and face painting for children.
RCR staff will be put in the stocks for a sponge throwing day, and all proceeds will to the Stafford Riverway Link, a charity working to connect the Staffs & Worcs Canal with the rivers Penk and Sow, enabling navigation into Stafford town centre.
The charity is running a buy-a-brick campaign, to help pay for a towpath and farm traffic bridge over what will eventually be the connection between the Staffs & Worcs Canal and Baswich mooring basin.
