Any additional arrangements during the year will be published in Canoe Focus. Members of the WCA can use the WCA Identification sticker to cover them on British Waterways rivers and canals only. Also you must carry your membership card as you may be asked to show this to authorised officials. Failure to display your sticker and carry your membership card may leave you open to prosecution. We aim to make more licence agreements for members on navigations and more access agreements for members on private waterways.
Licences have to be paid for.
If we can recruit many more members, their subscriptions will help significantly. Otherwise we can only pay for these agreements with increases in subscriptions or accept that waterways cannot be added to the scheme. If you see anyone paddling without a licence or BCU identification sticker on a waterway where these are required they are probably paddling illegally and may not realise it. So explain the facts to them and get them to join the BCU or their national association.