Workshops and Events
Friday
- We'll be there all day Friday, come along and help us set up the site.
- Activist and boat related films from a liveaboard film-maker.
- Join in the acoustic jam in the evening.
Saturday
- Engine Maintenance for Diesels - a theory and practice workshop explaining how a diesel engine works followed by an overview and demonstration of the essential maintenance tasks.
- Freegle/Freecycle/Swapshop for boaters - putting together a network for boaters to ask for and dispose of useful things.
- Bike Maintenance. Bring your bike and learn how to keep it in good nick - making your cycling more fun and faster!
- Practical Boat Handling.
- Boating Law for Continuous Cruisers - an introduction to the law relating to living on a boat without a permanent mooring on British Waterways canals and rivers. (By the National Bargee Travellers Association).
- Legal Surgery - If you are having specific problems with BW, other navigation authorities, housing benefit or other legal issues, come and talk to us individually and in confidence and we will do our best to help you find a solution. (By the National Bargee Travellers Association).
- DIY build a PV (electric) Solar Panel from scrap. Limited numbers - registration required - please contact us if you want to take part in this workshop.
- Setting up a local boaters' group - what we can learn from the London Boaters.
- Low Impact Living onboard skillshare - share your questions and experiences of low impact living on boats.
- Baddie the Pirate will be explaining how to get the best out of LEDs and how and why they are a good form of lighting for boats.
- Creative autonomy and boats - discussion.
Sunday
- 12volt electrics - understanding your electrics, including how to look after your batteries.
- Bike Maintenance. Bring your bike and learn how to keep it in good nick - making your cycling more fun and faster!
- Skillshare / Ideastorm on building a bicycle trailer
- The National Bargee Travellers Association is planning to develop and widen its activities. We need more volunteers to help campaigning and giving legal advice to boaters. Come along if you want to be involved or you have skills you can offer.
- Herbal medicine and food foraging walks - discover the medicine chest and potential dinners growing along the towpath.
- Making simple herbal remedies at home - a participatory demonstration making simple remedies from plants collected from an earlier walk.
- LILO networking - where next for LILO? Shall we organise another gathering? Is there information that's missing from the website? Do you want to start a local LILO group? Have you got any other ideas about what LILO can do?
Sunday evening
- Help pack up the site.
- Activist and boat related films from a liveaboard film-maker.
- Join in the acoustic jam in the evening.
Boaters Free Shop
Bring (useful!) things you no longer have room for, put them on the Free Shop Table for others to take away. It's so simple, but it only works if we all bring stuff with us!
Children and Families
We're providing a children's space, let us know if you're bringing kids along so we can share ideas about how to make the gathering as much fun for younger people as for the adults!
