The Waterways Community (TWC) is a charitable social enterprise creating opportunities for people, schools, businesses and organisations in Northern Ireland.
Our purpose is to draw on the immense potential that waterways – lakes, loughs, rivers, canals, harbours and maritime environments offer us to:
Create opportunities for learning and employability;
Transform the wellbeing and health of people and communities wherever they are;
Develop a diverse and sustainable waterways tourism offer.
Our organisation is growing and evolving to meet the needs of our communities and the wider NI tourism market.
We are now working in partnership with many waterways communities, as well as heritage & cultural waterways management organisations, local government and central government departments.
Bringing a new, exciting and sustainable tourism offer to this island is critical to ensuring that use and investment on waterways will give these assets a relevant future whilst contributing to local and national economies.
By working together, we will achieve our common objectives and develop our waterways as catalysts for social and economic regeneration.