January 2026 work party report

January 9-11 “Snow stopped play” (on Friday). Although other areas fared far worse, the effects of Storm Goretti brought us different conditions each day: Friday snow; Saturday frosty but bright; Sunday cold, damp and breezy. […]

Breach on the Llangollen Canal near Whitchurch

Visitors to this website will probably be aware of the breach on the Llangollen Canal near New Mills Lift Bridge, Whitchurch in the early hours of December 22. This has resulted in the closure of […]

New Year Greetings from SUCS

The Shropshire Union Canal Society would like to wish everyone that supports us in whatever way a happy and peaceful New Year. There are more ways than ever to enjoy the canals in our area […]

The Enhancement Group in 2025

Our enhancement group, based at Ellesmere and now in its third year, racked up over 300 hours of volunteer effort on the Llangollen Canal during 2025. A wide variety of light maintenance and improvement activities […]

December 2025 work party report

December 5-7 Muddy. The weather lately has been making up for the dry summer but we finish the year with a flourish. The main activities for the December work party were towpath construction, channel profiling […]

Waen Wen Basin

November 2025 saw tree clearance at Waen Wen by Canal & River Trust contractors – a preliminary step towards working up the design for this section. Waen Wen is the next section of the Montgomery […]

November 2025 work party report

November 7-9 Works to March next year are supported by a grant from the Shared Prosperity Fund which covers channel restoration, towpath restoration and the winter environmental programme. This month saw the start of towpath […]

October 2025 work party report

October 2-5 Although uncomfortably wet and windy at times, we were spared the worst of Storm Amy and much was achieved. As last month, the main work areas were Phase 2 (joining on from the […]

September 2025 work party report

September 4-7 New compound, new era A superbly productive work party, aided by a handful of volunteers attending on Thursday for preparations in the new compound – but all of that later. First, a location […]

Funding boost secures multiple deliverables

In collaboration with Canal and River Trust (CRT), the Society will benefit from a further UK Shared Prosperity Fund grant of £250K, including match funding, for the current year to March 2026. Of this, £140K […]