If you are interested in being involved with a group that is concerned with maintaining, repairing and promoting the Melbourne footpath network please contact Barry Thomas via the Contacts Us page here.
This will not be a walking group but a practical one to clear paths, repair stiles, erect signs and way-mark paths. The aim is to emulate the work of the highly successful Findern Footpaths Group here. Members will be expected to walk a number of paths twice a year to check on their condition (Melbourne has 37) and report back to the group.
The first meeting will be held early in January 2012.
Friday, 25 November 2011
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Open Spaces Society announces Awards Scheme
The Open Spaces Society has launched its first Open Space Award.
The society is inviting applicants who can demonstrate an activity that protects, increases, enhances and champions common land, town and village greens, open spaces and public paths in England and Wales, and the public’s right to enjoy them.
Details are on the society’s website at http://www.oss.org.uk/open-space-award/ or phone 01491 573535, and applications must be submitted by 31 January 2012. A national panel of judges will make a shortlist and visit those sites. The winning project will be announced at the society’s AGM on 10 July.
Jean Macdonald, the society’s vice-chairman, said: ‘We want to hear about the good things people are doing which support our aims of protecting, increasing, enhancing and championing open spaces and public paths anywhere in England or Wales.
‘If you’ve got a good story to tell, whether it’s yours or someone else’s, why not submit a proposal? You may have created or improved a path or an open space, or saved it from destruction. We hear so many horror stories about open spaces being developed and paths being gated or lost, but we know that there are lots of good things happening too. It would be great to be able to publicise your successes and show what can be done.’
The society is inviting applicants who can demonstrate an activity that protects, increases, enhances and champions common land, town and village greens, open spaces and public paths in England and Wales, and the public’s right to enjoy them.
Details are on the society’s website at http://www.oss.org.uk/open-space-award/ or phone 01491 573535, and applications must be submitted by 31 January 2012. A national panel of judges will make a shortlist and visit those sites. The winning project will be announced at the society’s AGM on 10 July.
Jean Macdonald, the society’s vice-chairman, said: ‘We want to hear about the good things people are doing which support our aims of protecting, increasing, enhancing and championing open spaces and public paths anywhere in England or Wales.
‘If you’ve got a good story to tell, whether it’s yours or someone else’s, why not submit a proposal? You may have created or improved a path or an open space, or saved it from destruction. We hear so many horror stories about open spaces being developed and paths being gated or lost, but we know that there are lots of good things happening too. It would be great to be able to publicise your successes and show what can be done.’
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