Author: chris bargman

A combined social evening and short meeting will be held on Wednesday 20th Jan at The Fighting Cocks Stottesdon.

Menu

Starters

Homemade Soup

Breaded Camembert

Homemade Pate

Main

Fish & chips

Beef Bourguignon

Chicken & Leek Pie

Veg Options – Lasagne, Nut Roast, Creamy Veg Pie

All with Mash or Chips & veg of day

Deserts from range available on the day

2 Courses – £11.95

3 Courses – £15.95

Orders to Yvonne by 17th Jan at latest- yvonne.farm@btopenworld.com or 01746 718650

Let us know if you think you will be able to come to get an idea of numbers.

Present:
John (Chairman), Yvonne, Steve, Chris, Kay, Clare, Pip, Louise

Apologies:
Pete, Marce, Olwen, Gill, Jackie

Tabletop Sale 17th November – Meet 5:30pm to setup hall

17 tables have been booked. Need to check on capacity (Yvonne and Clare to meet at VH wed 11th at 11:30 to check on tables/capacity)

Chris to bring key to open hall at 5:30pm on 17th. Any help to setup at this time much appreciated.

The event is being well publicized. Kay via social media and posts to local horse groups, John presented at SSRC AGM,event listed in Clarion, Sunshire Radio. Posters etc. so hopefully we will get a reasonable turnout. All to continue to publicize event.

Tea/coffee/cakes – 50p each – Chris to produce sign

Donation of a cakes will be welcome. We can always sell them off at end.

(Already had offers of cakes from Charolotte, Anne, Yvonne, Tanya, Marce, Jo)

Yvonne to purchase tea, coffee, sugar, milk.

Chris to provide £30 float.

Raffle – Yvonne

Prizes – Bottle Whiskey, B’fast Hamper, Countrywide Item

Yvonne has raffle tickets

Door – Steve, Rob, Emma

Tea Cakes – Jackie, Jo (+ anyone else who can help out)

Table Money – Yvonne to collect (note the £10 covers entry for one person only!)

Yvonne to bring some parcel tape to split tables in 1/2 if required.

Clee View Bridleway Display – Chris to organise.

John to bring large maps and board to mount them on if possible. Will highlights projects. Also give an idea of how much these cost and the effort involved.

Olwen has offered to print onto A3 if needed.

Email addresses – Chris to create a sheet which people can register their interest in our activities e.g. help, escorted rides etc.

 

Other Business

Clare to discuss with John costings for work on routes in various parishes and write to them for funding.

Chris has approached Hopton Wafers Parish Council and they are happy to provide funds to work on routes in Parish (Nunnery Lane). We need to put costings together and submit these. Chris to organise.

Wheathill Bridleway Group – Tina Ranson was hoping to attend the meeting but had to send her apologies. Chris to email her to see if she can come to the Sale. We can then discuss plans for routes on boarder of the areas.

Dangerous catch on gate on route Q – from New bridge to Catherton. May be awkward to fix in situ. Would be easier to fit a new gate with safe catch.

John to contact Council to ask for a 4′ gate and also tall way marker posts (need 1 for route F at Upper Marshes which has been snapped and removed by timber extractors).

Reminder we were going to have a meeting on Tue 10th Nov 7:30pm at Clare’s to finalise arrangements for the Equine Table Top Fundraiser.

 

Hello all. We need everyone to do their bit to help promote our Table Top Sale fund Raiser. We have had some table bookings but we need to get enough tables booked and people to come along to make it worthwhile.

Please tell everyone you know that is horsey and put the poster up wherever you can and if you use Facebook etc. make sure you mention it.

Louise, can we get a mention on the SSRC website and Facebook site? Is anyone going to the SSRC AGM tonight. If so can they make sure it is mentioned and take a poster.

Also local Pony Clubs and Hunts need to be informed. Can someone make sure this is done. Thanks.

We are holding  an Equine Table Top Sale (see poster below). This will be a fund raising event to help us with work maintaining our local bridleways.  A pdf file is available to downland and print to display on any suitable notice boards etc.

Please publicise and support this event.

pdf file to download – Tabletop Sale Poster Small

A work party cleared a section of the route. The main purpose is to provide access for a dumper to lay the stone over exposed tree roots.

Steve and John hope to move the stone (16 tonnes provided by the Council) from next to Stepple Hall and spread it on Thursday 1st October. Please contact Steve or John if you are able to help.

 

Arthur, John and Gill have moved the stone provided by the Council and used this to improve the route from Detton end.

Many thanks to them and particularly to Arthur for providing his JCB.

We are having an urgent work party on Sunday 27th Sept to clear branches etc from Route R (Titford Bridge route).

This is needed ASAP to clear the route to allow access by dumper to spread stone. The council have provided 16tonnes of stone (left at Stepple Hall) and John and Steve have agreed to use their dumper and loader to move the stone but first they need the route cleared enough to allow access.

We can park and meet at Reaside (Olwen’s house) 10:15 for a 10:30 start and will walk to the bridleway from there (see below).

Please bring loppers, strong gloves, chainsaw etc.

Thanks

Attendees:

Chris, Steve, Yvonne, Gill, Jill, Olwen, Clare, Jo, Pip, Jackie

Apologies:

John, Pete, Paula, Louise, Kay

Report On Council 

Council have paid for 3 x 16 tonne loads of stone for our use.

1 load has been delivered next to Stepple Hall for use on Route R. Access has been agreed with John Evans for us to go around his fields. Plan is to use John and Steve’s dumper plus Steve’s’ tractor and front loader to move stone down to the bridleway and spread this on the worst areas where it has been eroded around tree roots. Hopefully this work could be done in 1 full day (approx 8 dumper loads .The bridleway  first needs to be cleared back to allow the dumper access along the bridleway. A work part will be held Sunday 27th at 10:30 (see separate post for work party).

1 load has been delivered to John’s yard and will be used to repair route Route C Prescott end. John is happy to store the stone until we have the opportunity/funds to move it.

1 load will be delivered and left at the top of route C Detton end this week. There is limited space so it will need to be moved as soon as it has been delivered. Arthur has agreed to use his JCB to move and spread this along the bridleway with Johns help. The plan is to do this on Friday 25th Sept starting at 9:00am. Any additional help  will be appreciated.

All of the above work will require funding to pay for use of dumper, digger, tractor, fuel etc. Currently the group only has approx £30 in the account so a fund raiser will be required ASAP.

Fund Raiser

Option of quiz or equine table top sales were discussed. There are a number of Quizzes coming up which could reduce numbers so it was agreed we would try a table top sale. £10 per table in advance £15 on the night if space available. £2 entry to include refreshments (Tea, coffee, biscuit). Cakes will also be available for purchase. Donations of cakes for the cake sale will be required.

Proposed Date: Tuesday 17th November at F&O Village Hall.  This date is available.

Yvonne will take table bookings. Yvonne will organize raffle and offered to donate a bottle of Scotch.

Chris will organise a general display showing local bridleways and work we have done (could use the Committee room and serve teas in there).

Event will be publicized as a social event to meet with other horse riders alongside the table top sale.

Clare will produce a poster and Chris will circulate this through the website for people to print and display.

Open to set up tables 6:30pm, sale open 7:30pm.

Letter to Local Parish Councils

Clare will draft out a letter based on the one sent to Stottesdon Parish which we can send to Neen Savage, F&O and Hopton to see if we can get them to provide a contribution towards costs for work on paths/bridleways in their parishes. Can include in the letter that the county council have funded the materials (approx £270 per load 16 tonnes stone) and we need funds to pay for digger, dumper hire at approx £150/day. We will provide labour.

Other Routes Discussed

Route D from Factory Lane to the Detton Prescott Route C has been cleared and is now usable. We assume this was done by council. Note Factory Lane road surface is slippy!

Route K (Nunnery Lane) – Needs drainage work – 2016 project

Route M Walters Lane – This has been further damaged by 4 wheel off roaders. – 2016 project

Cleeton Gate – Callow Gate (around back of hill) – route now difficult to follow – 2016 project

Route Q Catherton – to the new bridge. Dangerous latch bolt sticks out on gate from Gordon Poyners field. Steve and Yvonne will look at this to see if it can be made safer.

Route O to Doctors Cottage. This has been improved and gates much easier to use.

 

Next Meeting 

Tuesday 10th November 7:30pm ( to finalize details for fund raiser on 17th)

Venue Clare’s