Below is a list of events taking place around the system in 2008.

1st March
HNBOC AGM at Braunston Village Hall.

20th- 24th March
HNBOC Easter Gathering at Stoke Bruerne.

3rd - 5th May
Black Country Living Museum Tug Gathering.

17th & 18th May
Coombeswood Canal Trust open weekend at Hawne Basin.

31st May - 1st June
Etruria Canals Festival.

31st May - 1st June
50th FBCC Rally at Astley, Leigh.

6th - 8th June
Stoke Bruerne Museum Open Weekend.

14th & 15th June
Middlewich Folk & Boating Festival.

21nd & 22nd June
Anderton I.W.A. Gathering.

28th & 29th June
Braunston Boat Show.

4th - 6th July
The Allen Register Gathering at Hawne Basin.

4th - 6th July
Saul Canal Fesitval, Gloucester

11th - 13th July
Celebration of 40 years of the B.C.N. Society at Titford Pumphouse.

27th July
Audlem Festival of Transport

16th - 20th August
Gathering of boats at Windmill End for celebration of 150 years of Netherton Tunnel.

23rd - 25th August
The I.W.A. National Festival at Autherley Junction, Wolverhampton.

6th & 7th September
Withymoor Island Open Weekend, Netherton.

6th & 7th September
Shackerstone Steam & Family Festival, Ashby Canal

12th - 14th September
The Black Country Boating Festival, Windmill End, Netherton.

26th - 28th September
The Parkhead Boating Festival, Dudley.

4th & 5th October
Dudley Festival of Water and Light at Merry Hill Waterfront.

18th & 19th October
Stourbridge Navigation Trust Open Weekend and 25th Anniversary at the Bonded Warehouse.

18th - 26th October
Re-creation of the Jam ‘Ole run, Braunston to Atherton to Southall to Braunston.