{"id":349917,"date":"2026-01-03T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349917\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:23:07","slug":"charity-needs-more-volunteers-to-help-maintain-yorkshires-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349917\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity needs more volunteers to help maintain Yorkshire&#8217;s canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More volunteers are needed to protect the canal network which has been &#8220;battered&#8221; by storms and floods, a charity has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Canal &amp; River Trust has about 750 volunteers across the Yorkshire and North East region \u2013 but said it wanted more people to come forward in the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said more than one million people in Yorkshire lived within a 10-minute walk of its waterways. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it added that many did not realise the locks, bridges, aqueducts and towpaths were looked after by the charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More volunteers are needed to protect the canal network which has been &#8220;battered&#8221; by storms and floods, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-349917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}