Peter Le Marchant Trust

We've had a busy start to 2019, taking bookings for the forthcoming season. Prices remain the same as 2018 so if you wish to book your day trip or holiday please do contact us to ensure you secure your date. Call us on 01509 265590 or email info@peterlemarchanttrust.co.uk for further details. We look forward to hearing from you.

2018 has been a fantastic year for the Peter Le Marchant Trust; full of changes and new opportunities. We'd like to thank all of our volunteers who have embraced the new team and, through their tireless dedication and support, have made it a brilliant year for us. We take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you to all the budding artists who have entered our Santa Sleighboat colouring competition; our base looks very festive! We look forward to receiving more entries this weekend and will announce the winner in early January.

We'd like to share with you an event which is running this Saturday in Woodhouse Eaves. Proceeds go to the Trust so, if you're in the area and enjoy blues, country and folk music, please find the details below.

We had a wonderful day aboard our Santa Sleighboat today. Thank you to everyone who visited; we look forward to meeting more passengers tomorrow.

Our elves are busy putting the finishing touches to the base ahead our first Santa Sleighboat trips tomorrow. We look forward to welcoming our passengers over this festive weekend.

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas! We're excitedly putting the finishing touches to the Trust base in preparation for our Santa Sleighboat trips. We still have limited spaces available on our Saturday morning trips, so please do book soon if you want to join in with our magical event.

We're excitedly preparing for our Santa Sleighboat trips; a new addition this year is our festive on-board activity packs to help the children while away their time whilst they wait to see Santa! Still some places left on Saturday 8th and 15th December morning trips so please call us on 01509 265590 if you'd like to book.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our passengers for their thank-you letters and cards which have been sent in to us. Also, much gratitude to our All Aboard this Autumn! artists who have brightened up the base a treat!

Spaces are filling up fast for our Santa Sleighboat trips for this year. Please do call us on 01509 265590 to book your places to avoid disappointment!

Join us for a magical Christmas experience on board our Santa’s Sleighboat. Meet Santa and his Elves on an enchanting journey along the Grand Union Canal.
Your little one will receive a special gift from Santa and cakes, mince pies and hot and cold drinks are included in the ticket price.
All proceeds go to supporting the work of the Peter Le Marchant Trust.
... Journey times 10.00 - 10.45, 11.15 - 12.00, 12.45 - 13.30 and 14.00 -14.45.
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Another memorable day on the water with our special autumn trips; lots of happy faces and on-board crafts. We look forward to greeting our next All Aboard this Autumn! passengers on Monday.

We had a wonderful morning with our All Aboard this Autumn! trip today; it was fully booked and the weather was great! We look forward to welcoming more aboard tomorrow and next week. Limited places still available for Monday 22nd, 10am trip so book fast if you want to join in.

We are delighted to announce we've been awarded a community development grant from Charnwood Borough Council for £8,350 for our Young Peoples’ Participation and Development Project. Leicestershire Councillor, Deborah Taylor, visited the Trust base on Monday 15th October to present our CEO, Tim Marren, with the cheque. We are very excited for the future and look forward to keeping you updated with this project.

Thank you for your positive response to our All Aboard this Autumn! trips; we are delighted with the interest. We still have some availability on Thursday 18th and Monday 22nd October. Only £5 per person for 2 hours! Please call 01509 265590 or email info@peterlemarchanttrust.co.uk to reserve your places.

Only two weeks to go until our special 2 hour Autumn trips. It provides a wonderful opportunity to see the colours of autumn on board our boat, Serenade. Aimed at all the family; we have on-board activity packs, crafts and factsheets as well as the chance to learn about locks. All proceeds go to supporting the work of the Trust so please call 01509 265590 to reserve your places today. Thank you!

Time's ticking away for you to buy your lottery ticket for tomorrow's first Charnwood Community Lottery. The draw is at 8pm, Saturday 29th September. If you decide to purchase, please use the link below and 50% of your ticket sales will benefit our Trust. Each ticket has a 1 in 50 chance to win with a top prize of £25,000. Good luck!
https://www.charnwoodlottery.co.uk/…/pe ter-le-marchant-trust

provide excellent holidays, been 2 times chris as captain, 3rd time soon , provides great holidays for wonderful people who may not on there own be able to participate, highly recommend

We went today on the Santa Sleighboat and it was a fantastic experience. Very friendly people and very well organised! Well worth it for the price you pay and our daughter got to see Santa, spend some time with him and got a present without waiting on any queues, unlike at many other similar events. Happy girl and happy parents, well done!

We went for a perfect boat ride and saw Santa today, our son is 14 and has autism and significant learning and communication difficulties but still wants to see Santa so after hearing fantastic things about Peter Le Merchant I booked. We took our youngest daughter too as she is a young carer as both her older siblings have complex disabilities so it was lovely to do something together. Due to our eldest daughters chronic anxiety and social phobia she couldn't join us today but after chatting to a very helpful elf we are looking into doing a family boat trip which would be brilliant as we all found it very calming and all thoroughly enjoyed it :) Thank you.

We have just returned from a week on the Melody and want to say a huge Thank You to your amazing team for all your hard work.

It was a great week of relaxation and fun but the best thing was seeing my parents relaxing and enjoying themselves for the first time since my dads cancer surgery in December.

We can't thank you enough. Xx

We had a wonderful time on the santa canal boat trip today. The trip lasted about 40mins the grandchildren spent quite a while chatting to santa in his grotto then he joined everyone towards the end of the trip. The gifts they received were relevant for their age,. Santa's elf helpers were all lovely and nothing was too much trouble for them. Exceptional value too, would highly recommend it.

We had a great time seeing santa! Deffinately recommend it. Such a nice day

Very relaxing and boats are berg big and roomy and staff are very friendly.

The crew were great,friendly and helpfull.

The trip was relaxing and intresting.

Great day out-had by all!

My daughter has enjoyed no less than 3 great trips with you in the last few weeks! it is always a wonderful experience for her - and us- to enjoy the beauty and gentleness of cruising along the river. Thank you so much!

Lovely. Went to see Father Christmas yesterday. My boys loved it. Great price and even better as it's for charity. Would recommend this and hope they do it again next year

Lovely boats and lovely people

Just had a wonderful trip on Serenade, lovely meal.

It was down memory lane for me has we used to moor our boat at Zouch.

Many thanks to the hard working crew.

I took 16 disabled children onto the boat today and wow it was such a treat for us! We were treated like royalty and everyone was so so lovely! Thankyou so much for giving up your time. The boat was amazing and so were you! We plan to return in the summer!

Hello i took my 5 yr old son on the £5 2hour boat trip on thursday 18th .a absolute bargain ,the volunteers and Melissa were very helpful .thankyou Peter le Merchant trust see you on the Santa boat trip .

Great days out and support amazing crafts and staff- second to none-Mike

Brilliant.Lovely way to spend a few hours in great company. 😊😊😊😊

Brilliant Santa Sleighboat trip for little kids ( and big kids) alike! The boat was decorated beautifully and volunteers looked very festive as elves. Jolly Santa was great too. Tea and Mince pies on board. A very well organised event.