Sherburn Boghoppers

Messages from John Penrose 

Sent: 5^th February 2025

It is less than a month now before the Boghoppers AGM on Monday 3^rd March.

 As last year it will be held at 2pm in All Saints Church Hall. 

Please attend if you can, it is likely to be a very important meeting in view of our continued difficulty in getting offers to lead walks, lower attendance and a continuing shrinking of our bank balance. 

As usual, it is important that any items that anyone might wish to place on the agenda or raise in AOB are notified to the Secretary, Jean Mooney, by Saturday 22^nd February

Sent: 29^th January 2025

The first coach supported walk this year is going to Skipton on Sunday 23^rd February.  Please book your place on the coach by Friday 14^th by ringing Jean (0796 764 0383), after that date Jean is away and not contactable until the trip so late bookings will not be possible.  As things stand we still do not have a B walk leader.

I have had no offers to lead a walk from Grassington on 16^th March so I will lead a walk from Grassington on 27^th April. 

So our programme at the moment is-

23^rd February    Skipton                                A walk: Alan Yeaman                    B walk: leader needed

16^th March          Offer of walk leaders needed

6^th April                Kirbymoorside                 A walk: leader needed                  B walk: Chris Snowden

27^th April             Grassington                      A walk: John Penrose                    B walk: leader needed

Walk leader offers needed for 18^th May and 8^th June.

John

Sent: 12^th January 2025

Unfortunately I had to decide to cancel the proposed walk from Todmorden on Sunday 12^th January in view of the continuing icy conditions, I was not sure what conditions might be like there but some friends from Brighouse were still contending with frozen pavements following 5 inches of snowfall.

Our next walk will hopefully fare better and is a cars only walk led by Mick Craven on Sunday 2^nd February.  Please text Mick on 07733534198 if you are proposing to join the walk.

Please meet in the Long Stay Car Park in Boston Spa at 10.00 am.  (address 2 Riverside Walk, LS23 6FJ).  Depending on the attendees and the weather the walk will be between 7 and 10.5 miles.  The walk is along the riverside which is subject to flooding so this may also effect the length of the walk.

The first coach supported walk of 2025 will be on 23^rd February  from Skipton, we still need a 'B' walk leader.

I had proposed to lead the next walk on 16^th March from Grassington, however I am no longer available on that date so we again need a walk leaders for that date.  An offer to lead a walk from Grassington would allow this to go ahead as planned.

We still need an offer to lead an 'A' walk from Kirkbymoorside on 6^th April and walk leaders for 27^th April and 18^th May.

PLEASE be forthcoming with offers to lead walks so that we can put together a spring programme.  John

Coach Pickups 20 March 2023

At the AGM a resolution was passed that we reduced the number of coach pickups to a maximum of one after Sherburn.  The result would be that the coach would pick up at Tadcaster, Wetherby or Garforth depending on our destination.  The reason for this was to reduce the journey time and to reduce the mileage/coach hire.  It was probably brought up because the route via Micklefield and Aberford to Tadcaster was felt to be particularly onerous.  NB.  We originally travelled straight from Sherburn to Tadcaster but introduced the pickups in Micklefield & Aberford when we resumed having the coach after covid to try and encourage people back to the walks.

We have now looked in more detail at the implications to costs and mileage.

Sherburn to Tadcaster direct would appear to save £10  on  the coach hire and more than halve the travel time and mileage between those points.  However, the journey to Wetherby from Sherburn  can only be reduced by 5 minutes or so on a 26 minute journey by taking the most direct route, and apparently would not attract any saving on the coach hire.

We would, therefore, propose that we maintain the pickups at Micklefield and Aberford when travelling via Wetherby but on other routes just pick up at Tadcaster or Garforth.

We are conscious that this does not exactly match the terms of our AGM resolution but we are confident that it implements the intention and spirit of it.

Please let us know of your opinion on the matter and if this is not acceptable to a number of you we will review the situation again.  For the time being we will maintain pickups at Micklefield and Aberford when we travel via Wetherby as the case for our next walk at Leyburn on the 16^th April.