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South Cot Sw Old Ram Blers' Group South Cot sw old Ram blers’ Group New slett er - October 2012 Published each year in February, June and October. We look forward to hearing from you with stories, opinions, photos, poetry, art, funny tales, cartoons, appeals, you name it. Please contact the Editor, Mike Garner, 01453 873625, email: m a h g a rn e r@ g m a il.c o m by 5 January 2013 C H AIR M A N ’S AN N UA L R E P O RT 2011-2012 Any review of the South Cots over the last year can be put quite simply as ‘Continues to make good progress’. Our Start the Week Walks now have a strong following. Midweek walks are well supported and the monthly practice of running two walks on a Saturday frequently sees total turnouts approaching 40. The only disappointment has been our evening walks which have been badly affected by the weather. It always, well nearly always, rains on a Thursday evening! Thanks to everybody involved in putting the programme together and to those who volunteer to lead. New leaders are always welcome and can help to increase the variety of walks on our programme. If you think you would like to join our band of leaders but have some doubts about what is involved, help is always at hand, just contact myself or Mike. (S te e p h ill C o v e n e a r V e n tn o r) September saw the staging of the Stroud Walking Next year we hope to go to Dartmoor and Shropshire so Festival as part of the Five Valleys Festivals. From the 8th why not come along. to the 30th September our walks were included in the Festival and quite a few new faces were spotted. Hopefully Your Footpath Committee continue their sterling we will acquire some new members. We also had a stand work with a number of successes over the year as well as at the Festival of Nature, which was held on the 8th an impressive record of path clearing and liaison work September and marked the beginning of the Walking with the PROW in County Hall. Chris Gent is retiring as Festival. With an estimated 3,000 people attending this Footpath Secretary at the AGM and I would like to thank festival we should at least have got a bit of publicity. him for the tremendous work which he has put in over the last three years. This side of our work is becoming more Once again we have enjoyed two holidays this and more important. A recent survey by Ramblers, using year. The first was to Abingworth in the Sussex Freedom of Information requests of local authorities, has Downs,where Mike arranged a stay with HF Holidays. A established that Gloucestershire is among the hardest hit party of 20 made the most of the usual outstanding HF counties in the cutbacks. There is therefore going to be hospitality and, with a variety of abilities, were able to more and more work out there for us to do, particularly in choose the most suitable walk each day from the three on South Cotswold Area which encompasses some 58 offer. different parishes. In September I put on an old favourite at the In the coming months Ramblers will again be Hambledon Hotel on the Isle of Wight. presented with many challenges. If you want to learn Mine host, Bill, (below centre) put on his usual programme more please come to our AGM, always an exhilarating of walks, affair, and why not even consider coming to the Area arranging pub AGM. This year we have Ramblers’ new CEO, Benedict lunches and Southworth, as guest speaker and I am sure he will have transport for plenty to tell us. Since joining Ramblers he has begun those only taking us back to our old campaigning roots which augurs wanting to do well for the future of our organisation. the morning. We extend our commiserations and deepest With an ample sympathy to Ron Dowdeswell whose wife Brenda died breakfast and earlier this year. We hope it won’t be too long before Ron dinner at each is out walking with us again. end of the day, a good time was Many of you will have heard that Bernard’s wife, had by all. Janis, has had a nasty accident and we wish her a speedy recovery. Richard Davis - Gr oup Chair m an P a g e 1 - w w w .s o u th c o ts w o ld ra m b le rs .o rg .u k Fo o tp a th Ch a irm a n : vacant GROUP VOLUNTEERS 2011- 12 Fo o tp a th Se c re ta ry a n d Vic e Ch a irm a n : C h a irm a n : Christopher Gent 07917 473146 Richard Davis 01453 762373 [email protected] [email protected] Vic e Ch a irm a n : Fo o tp a th Co m m itte e M in u te s Se c re ta ry : Mike Garner 01453 873625 [email protected] John Corry 01453 845574 [email protected] Gro u p Se c re ta ry : Fo o tp a th Cle a ra n c e Bernard Smith 01453 884013 [email protected] Bob Frewin Gro u p Tre a s u re r: Fo o tp a th Co m m itte e M e m b e rs : Brian Witcombe 01453 872220 [email protected] Penny Fernando Bernard Smith M e m b e rs h ip Se c re ta ry , N e w s le tte r, Bo o k Sa le s : L e d Wa lk s P ro g ra m m e Co -o rd in a to r: Mike Garner 01453 873625 [email protected] Mike Garner 01453 873625 [email protected] P re s s Se c re ta ry : L e d Wa lk s C o lle c to rs fo r M a rc h - Ju n e 2 013: Kathy Bullen 01453 860004 [email protected] Anne Eamer 01453 842551 S ta rt th e W e e k W a lk s Gro u p Co m m itte e M e m b e rs : Kathy Bullen 01453 860004 M id w e e k W a lk s John Corry Brian Kirkman Diana Davis John Geoghegan 01453 834141 W e e k e n d W a lk s FO O TP ATH SE CR E TA RY’S RE P O RT An example of the work that continues - we have reported this horror to PROW and offered to put 2 011-2012 in a kissing gate in its place off Swanley Lane in This is my last report as secretary of the Footpath Alkington Parish. Committee as I will be standing down at the AGM. My three But no years have been great fun, but, as a committee and as Ram- response blers, we have seen the rapid decline in personnel at Glouces- as yet, tershire PROW, which has led to many more challenges for the reports group. I am afraid that I can only see the situation getting worse John in the future. Though staff at Shire Hall do a great job, there is Corry. only so much the limited number can do, and I think that our footpath network will deteriorate more and more unless all of us are prepared to take action. So: continue to walk the paths, both popular and unpopular; report any problems on the County Council web site TR E A SU RE R’S RE P O R T 2 011-2012 http://prow.gloucestershire.gov.uk/website/prow_web/pem_index.htm. Brian Witcombe,our honorary treasurer, will The advantage of this site over others is that you are present his report at the AGM on Saturday 17 given a reference number which can be used (by you or the November, or you can obtain a summary by footpath committee) to track progress; and let the footpath contacting Bernard Smith, the Group Secretary, (see committee know of any problems you have reported (along with contact details above) after the meeting. the reference number) so that they can be tracked – the committee has a really good working relationship with the two We lc o m e to N e w M e m b e rs PROW officers responsible for our area. Since June we have welcomed another 17 new The committee has been working its way through a long members. We hope you enjoy belonging. We have list of complaints, official diversion requests, planning already met several of you on Group walks and look applications and other matters that could have a negative (or forward to meeting more of you. positive, occasionally!) impact on our footpaths. I would like to thank the other members of the committee – John Corry, Penny M ik e G a rn e r - m e m b e rs h ip s e c re ta ry Fernando and Bob Frewin - for their work and also I would like to thank Jill Byrne for her support. Special thanks are due to Bob Ramblers have just issued a new membership for his clearance work – he has cleared many formidable leaflet with a £10 off offer, Mike and John G have copies. If you think you know someone who might be obstructions around the locality.
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