MCC Events Committee

Ask people what the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust does and they will say “restore the canal”, which is true, but we do a lot more than just laying bricks and digging mud. We can’t do any of that without volunteers and cash, so in order to acquire both of these; we run a diary of events.

Within the MCC branch we have a highly successful Events committee whose members organise all of these events.

There are three main objectives to running events; to raise public awareness of the canal and what we are doing; to recruit new members; and to raise funds.

There are different types of event that we run, some are annual events that meet all of our objectives, such as the Chippenham Folk Festival and the Melksham Food & River Festival; some are purely non-canal related fund raising, such as race marshalling and a twice yearly quiz; and then there are the fun social events.  And if you want to learn about the canal, then we have members who deliver talks to organisations throughout the area.

 

MCC Events for 2024

 

Pewsham Locks Open Days v3 1

 

 

 

 Quiz Night Results

Our apologies for the delay in getting the April 2024 Quiz Night results to you. These are shown beloiw. The delay was due to tech issues, where we thought the score sheet had been lost but after some work was recovered and an unexpected stay in hospital for our Branch Chairman (well on the way to recovery) which also didn't help from a timescale point of view.
 
Your attendance and generosity on the night raised over £840 and although we have to take hall hire from this the balance will be a tremendous help to our work particularly at Pewsham.
 
The next quiz is on Friday 1st November 2024 at the Neeld and details will be sent out closer to the time
20240412 WBCT Quiz Score Sheet 1
 
 
 

MCC Events 2024 2

MCC Events 2024 3

MCC Events 2024 Calendar