Volunteer group helping to keep bridleways open in south shropshire
Following from the last post regarding our Lloyds Bank Account it looks like we may be able to move to Nat West which currently does not have a monthly charge for community groups.
We will start the process but before making the change we need to make sure that everyone is happy with a change of Bank.
Please let me know ASAP if you have any concerns or questions.
Chris
From 14th Jan we are going to be charged £4.25/mth by Lloyds Bank to use our community Bank Account!
We only do a handful of transactions in a year and our account does not have much in it so an annual cost of £51 will soon eat into our funds.
I have had a quick look around and there are not many free alternatives for non-registered community groups. Nat West seem to offer one but only for people with an existing Nat West account (I don’t have one). Metro appears to be an option but it looks like you have to go into a Branch and the nearest is Brieley Hill.
Please contact me if you have any thoughts?
Chris (Treasurer)
We have been given advanced notice of a vintage motorcycle event on Sunday 29th Sept from about 11 am to 12am. They will be coming through Farlow and up Farlow Bank then right at the cross roads across the common and up to Hopton Bank Garage.
Thanks to Sally and Alison for clearing back the gorse on the common by Hill Houses.
Also FYI the SWT are having a work party on Crammer Gutter on Saturday 29th April 10:00 – 13:00 so there may be cars and people about.
Many thanks to everyone involved with the Quiz night on Saturday 17th June. It was a huge success with lots of laughs.
Through ticket sales and raffle we raised a total of £328 after taking off costs for the food and hall hire.
We now have enough money to be able to tackle a bridleway improvement project which we will discuss at our next meeting.
It took a while and a lot of chasing but work has now been completed on Walters Lane. This was funded by the Council and done by Roddy who has done a great job and it should stay usable throughout the year. Well done to all involved.
Don’t forget the Quiz night fund raiser on 16th June !
We need to promote the Quiz night. Clare has created a poster (link below to pdf). Please print and put up/circulate.
Mortimer Forest is a wonderful local place to ride and walk away from traffic and people. You are probably already aware but there is a threat to the forest with the proposed development of a holiday park with 68 log cabins. If you want to save the forest please sign the petition now.
More info can be found on – https://www.save-mortimer-forest.co.uk/
Thanks,
Chris
We have been told by Shropshire Council that the work on Walters Lane is now booked for May this year. A quote was supplied to the council by a local contractor which they have approved. Start on the project has been put back to May to allow the ground conditions to dry out.
Thanks to Jo for her persistence.
Please find below a link to the Shropshire User Survey for 2017-2018.
We really do need to get responses up from Equestrians.
Each member of a family can fill in a separate Survey as an Equestrian. They can also do a separate one, if they wish, for other disciplines like walking, as this would have different responses.
Equestrian responses were outnumbered last year by responses from cyclists.
In 2016 there were only 48 responses from Equestrians to the User Survey, and in 2017 this increased to 133.
At the end of October 2017 the BHS alone had 1,357 BHS members in Shropshire, with regionally 7,456 BHS members, with no doubt many equestrians on our borders who ride into Shropshire.
I know we all get fed up filling in these sorts of survey and not seeing any outcome but for 5 minutes effort we need to be doing this and get the numbers of responses up. This is an annual survey so please do fill it in, and pass the link on.
Follow the link below and click on the ‘How to get involved’ tab