Corporate Affiliate
Support the UK’s Residential Boating Community While Growing Your Organisation’s Visibility
The Residential Boat Owners’ Association (RBOA) Corporate Affiliate Programme is designed for organisations that want to connect with the UK’s residential boating community while demonstrating their commitment to the inland waterways sector.
For more than 60 years, the RBOA has represented people living aboard boats across the UK’s canals and rivers. Through advocacy, engagement with policymakers, and practical support for those living afloat, the Association works to improve understanding, encourage fair treatment, and help shape the future of residential boating.
By becoming a Corporate Affiliate, your organisation becomes visibly aligned with this work while gaining access to an engaged audience of residential boaters, liveaboards, and waterways stakeholders from across the UK.
For many businesses and organisations, this provides an opportunity to build trust and raise awareness among people who regularly seek specialist products, services, and local support. From marine engineers, insurers, and mooring providers to solicitors, healthcare services, charities, training providers, and local businesses located near waterways, there are countless organisations whose work naturally overlaps with life on the water.
Whether you operate directly within the waterways sector or simply work alongside communities living afloat, becoming an RBOA Corporate Affiliate demonstrates a genuine connection to one of the UK’s most unique residential communities.
What You Get as an RBOA Corporate Affiliate
As a Corporate Affiliate, your organisation will receive a range of benefits designed to help raise your profile while demonstrating your affiliation with the UK’s leading residential boating association.
A Listing in the RBOA Affiliate Directory
Your organisation will be included within the RBOA Affiliate Directory, helping members and visitors discover trusted businesses, professional services, charities, and organisations that understand the needs of people living aboard boats. Whether someone is looking for specialist support, practical services, or trusted local providers, directory inclusion helps place your organisation in front of a relevant audience.
Advertising in Soundings Magazine
Corporate Affiliates receive a quarter-page advertisement in Soundings, the RBOA’s biannual magazine. Read by members and waterways stakeholders across the UK, Soundings offers valuable exposure to an audience with a direct interest in boating, inland waterways living, and the organisations that support it.
Use of the RBOA Registered Affiliate Logo
Affiliates are granted use of the RBOA Registered Affiliate logo for display across websites, email signatures, marketing materials, and business communications. It provides a clear and visible way to demonstrate your organisation’s connection to the waterways sector and commitment to supporting people who live afloat.
Who Is the Programme For?
The Corporate Affiliate Programme has been created for organisations that work with, support, or regularly engage with residential boaters and inland waterways communities.
Naturally, this includes marinas, boatyards, chandlers, surveyors, insurers, brokers, engineering firms, and mooring providers. However, the programme is equally valuable for legal professionals, accountants, healthcare providers, welfare organisations, training companies, charities, and humanitarian organisations whose work intersects with life on the water.
Businesses located near canals and rivers may also find real value in affiliation. Cafés, pubs, local retailers, tradespeople, launderettes, storage facilities, and other service providers often become part of the day-to-day lives of residential boaters and benefit from stronger visibility within the community.
Helping Shape the Future of Residential Boating
Residential boating continues to face unique opportunities and challenges, from policy and licensing discussions through to access, moorings, and recognition of life afloat.
By becoming an RBOA Corporate Affiliate, your organisation is not only increasing its visibility but also helping strengthen an organisation that exists to represent and advocate for residential boat owners across the UK’s inland waterways.
Join the RBOA Corporate Affiliate Programme
If your organisation works within the waterways sector, supports people living aboard boats, or serves communities near canals and rivers, we would be delighted to welcome you as an RBOA Corporate Affiliate.
Support the waterways community. Build trust. Be recognised as an RBOA Registered Affiliate.