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