Business Opportunities

We work with business partners to build sustainable and viable businesses based on our canal and river assets and wealth of expertise. Through innovative partnerships, we have been successful in creating new businesses in areas including waterside property development and regeneration, routers under our towpaths for telecommunications and utility cables and pipes, and cost-effective and environmentally-friendly cooling system for buildings using our canal water.

What makes us different from other business partners is that the millions of pounds we earn from our stake in the venture is always reinvested back into our canals and rivers, which we hope makes us a worthy organisation to partner.

Olympic trading opportunities

British Waterways London is now inviting Expressions of Interest for trading craft to operate from various sites within the controlled mooring zone in London during the summer of 2012. Download these documents for details and to apply.

• General - Trade Information(55KB DOC)
• Expression of Interest - General Trade(98KB DOC)
• London Olympic Moorings Map(1.4MB PDF)

Joint venture partnerships

• ISIS: property regeneration
  Our partners: MUSE Developments & igloo
• Waterside Pub Partnership: waterside pubs
  Our partner: Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises
• Wood Wharf: one of London's most exciting developments
  Our partners: Canary Wharf Group & Ballymore
• Gloucester Quays Regenerating Gloucester's waterfront
  Our partner: Peel Holdings
• Edinburgh Quay
  Our partner: Miller Developments
• H2O Urban
  Our partner: bloc
• City Road Basin: Regenerating the basin at Islington
  Our partner: Miller Developments

Other business opportunities

• Award-winning attractions
• New marinas
• Canalside small business opportunities
• Cooling and heating buildings
• Waterbourne freight
• Promote your leisure business
• Prime outdoor advertising sites
• Property development & regeneration
• Route Supplier for telecoms, cables and pipes
• Surface water drainage
• Water sales
• Waterside pubs; lease and tenant opportunities