16 Jan 2020

2020 Photographic competition is open

Browse your albums, get snapping and submit Our 2020 photographic competition is open to all amateur photographers with prizes for the best images. Entry is free. We will display the winning photographs at the Canal Cafe at ...

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27 Nov 2019

Hello Santa!

Chichester Canal switches on the Christmas lights Sunday 24th November saw the Christmas festivities at Chichester Canal start with a bang. The Portsmouth Model Boat Display Team and the Chichester Model Boat club showed off their illuminated ...

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17 Oct 2019

Promoting Chichester Canal

VAAC film a promotional video On a rare sunny day Jenny Holmes, of Volunteer Action Arun and Chichester, paid us a visit at the Canal to film a short video. This featured Catherine Cannon, vice Chair and ...

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30 Sep 2019

2020 Canal calendars on sale

A super Christmas present for friends and family Our Canal 2020 calendars are on sale in the Cafe from 1 October. We selected all of the photos from nearly 100 that were entered into our 2019 photo ...

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27 Sep 2019

Refurbished Heritage Centre is officially opened

Hold the front page! On Saturday 21st September, the Mayor of Chichester, Cllr Richard Plowman, officially opened Chichester Canal’s refurbished Heritage Centre. The sun shone and our swan family performed a “Basin ballet”, with a backdrop of ...

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19 Aug 2019

Rosie and Jim gifted to the Canal

Fond memories of 1990 Do you remember the series “Rosie and Jim”, made popular as a TV series by John Cunliffe in the 90s? Well, if you do, we now have our very own Rosie and Jim, ...

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02 Aug 2019

Photo competition winners

Stunning photography blows the judges away We were thrilled with the response to our 2019 photo competition. We received almost 100 photos (including some from teenagers) covering virtually all activities experienced on the canal. No surprises that ...

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24 Jul 2019

Tony French granted Freedom of the City

Congratulations to our Vice President On behalf of the Chichester Ship Canal Trust, we’d like to offer Tony French our warmest congratulations at being given the Freedom of the City of Chichester. We understand that he first ...

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10 Jul 2019

Canal joins forces with Visit Chichester at Festival of Speed

Soggy but still smiling Two of our noble (or maybe daft) volunteers, Dave and Janet, set off at 6.30 on Sunday morning for FOS. The weather wasn’t promising as it was raining. But Visit Chichester rep, Helen, ...

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27 Jun 2019

Photographic competition 2019 is now closed

Update regarding judging and results Thank you to everyone who submitted photos to our 2019 competition. We received nearly 100 high quality photographs setting a big challenge for our judges…… speaking of which, our judges are currently ...

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