Thank you to the people who have already come forward and offered dates. We still have a lot of dates to fill – 7 Mondays, 4 Midweeks and 8 Saturdays. You can find available dates on the Walk Planning Page HERE When you have decided on your dates you can reserve your date on the…

All South Cotswold Ramblers members are invited to a Picnic Walk and Lunch on Saturday 21 June. There will be a beautiful 5.5 mile walk which goes along the River Coln, then through woods and farmland back through the Cotswold village of Coln St. Aldwyns. There is not much climbing, just 2 slopes (total ascent…

You should have received a copy of this by email from either Ros or Janet on 23 March. I have also replaced the one from the previous period on our website. You can find it on Walks > Walks Programme. Please check our message board or the Ramblers app for the inevitable changes. Sally

Trying to put on walks to suit everyone isn’t easy. We experimented with nominating 1 Saturday a month as a possible Faster Paced walk but it was suggested that this was too limiting, so we are now saying that leaders are free to choose whether they prefer to lead a Moderate or a Faster Paced…

There is a link on our website under Footpaths, Report a problem, which takes you to Gloucestershire Public Rights of Way office who use Fix my Street. The form cannot be used as it goes to a group’s Footpath Officer, and we do not have one! I have left the form on our website in…

If any walk leaders are thinking about leading a walk from barrow Wake the car park is closed for 30 weeks, the access road is still available for parking. It’s something to do with the road works.

You can set up an emergency contact number on your phone for someone to call (friend, family member) on your behalf without the need to know your password or screen lock. It doesn’t call 999, just the person you have nominated. HERE are the instructions. Ask if you need any help. Sally

Ramblers members can get this discount by going to ramblers.org.uk/offers-and-promotions then click on the OS link and enter code RAMOSM at the checkout.  There are details about this on p.10 of the latest Walk magazine. Sally

We now have Janet helping Ros in her job as Membership Secretary. There is quite a lot of work involved (mainly caused by Ramblers Head Office’s unfriendly bureaucracy) so it is good to have someone else to share the load. The 99% of you who receive communication by email should have received the next walks…

If you are a leader who doesn’t have a pre-organised backmarker who knows your route but rely on a volunteer in the car park beforehand, it would be very helpful if you could give them a copy of the map of your route so they know where you are going. Another option for people who…

Pathwatch, the mobile phone app supported by Ramblers that enabled us to take a photo of a problem on a footpath and send it directly to Ramblers head office and to the Public Rights of Way officer giving the co-ordinates of the location, has now gone. There is a link on our website under Footpaths,…

We have introduced the option for leaders to designate their walk as a Faster Pace walk when they complete their Submit a walk form, as well as the Leisurely (for Monday walks) and Moderate for the majority of our walks. We anticipate that this will be used quite sparingly (probably by only a handful of…