Volunteers Events

Cruise to Narrowboat Farm for a pumpkin carving experience

This year’s Kirkintilloch Canal Festival will run from Monday 17th August to Sunday 23rd August 2020 and we are delighted to offer the most diverse programme of events ever! Experience educational aspects that the canal can offer as well as the entertainment and excitement of Saturday night’s firework display and Sunday’s fun packed gala.

The annual fun day at Linlithgow Canal Centre including the world famous Cardboard Boat Race

The 2020 Glasgow Canal Festival will feature for the first time ever a Canal Carnival Flotilla, a parade of boats adorned with large-scale carnivalesque artworks which will travel down the Forth and Clyde Canal in North Glasgow

Flotillas from all ends of the Scottish Canal network meet at the Falkirk Wheel for a weekend of fun and entertainment.

Tickets are now on sale on our event booking website for our Easter Bunny boat trips on 11th April 2020. Fun and refreshments for everyone and a chocolate egg for the children. Put on your bunny ears or your Easter bonnet and climb aboard our narrowboat Bluebell! Go ashore to meet the Easter Bunny and join in the Easter Egg Hunt. All children will receive an Easter Egg!

Join us for a community event - picking litter out of the banks of the Forth & Clyde canal! Bowling Harbour - Old Kilpatrick This is a water based litter pick! Meeting outside the BHive Activity Hub at 10am, we will buddy up in pairs and head off in canoes along the canal towards Old Kilpatrick and back, picking out those hard to reach pieces of litter from the banks of the canal.