Sherburn Boghoppers

Messages from John Penrose 

1^st  December

Please put the Boghoppers AGM in your diaries for Monday 2^nd February, 2 pm in the Sherburn Church Hall.  This is a month earlier than usual because Jean is away for most of March and we do in fact, need to look carefully at the future of the club before embarking on a 2026 programme using coaches in view of our vanishing bank balance. 

If the club is to continue it is likely that we have to make significant increases to the coach fares since we will not be able to continue to subsidise them.  We will also probably wish to use the AGM to discuss any marking of the clubs 50^th anniversary.

As usual if you have any agenda items including constructive suggestions regarding these topics and the clubs future please let Jean know in good time, in fact it would help if we could receive these by the beginning of January so that they can contribute to our planning of the AGM agenda. 

We will not plan any further coach supported trips until we have had our AGM but for now we have a cars only progamme for three combined A and B walks in the new year (possible a fourth on the 2^nd March)-

4^th January          St Aidens            8 miles                                led by John Penrose (07904252532)
                                meet by the Dragline in the RSPB Reserve car park at 10 am
                                (please let me know if you are coming, email or text preferred)

1^st February       Thorner                                                led by Alan Yeaman
                                details tba

22^nd February    Temple Newsam            about 8 miles   led by John Penrose
                                details tba

Possible future dates- 2^nd March, 15^th March, 12^th April

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and New Year.    John

18^th  November

We have had a low response for the proposed coach trip to Grassington on 30^th November and it would appear that a number of members are deterred from coming on the trip since the location being further away we are unlikely to arrive back before dark.

So we are going to see if we can make up the numbers by trying somewhere closer.

We are proposing to visit Masham instead, we should be able to start walking by 9.45 or so and will plan for a departure by 2.45 pm to get us back earlier, hopefully by 4pm.

Please get in touch as soon as possible with Jean to let us know if you will be coming on this revised trip to Masham.  We will need to know that we have a reasonable number in order to book the coach without making too much of a loss.

10^th  November

As usual after Christmas we will try to provide some more local walks using our cars.  I will lead a 7 to 8 mile combined A and B walk from St Aidens RSPB car park (St Aidan's Nature Park, Astley Lane, LS26 8AL) on Sunday 4th January.  We will probably meet by the Drag line crane at 10 am (www.rspb.org.uk/days-out/reserves/st-aidans), there is a small charge for the car park.  I will reconfirm arrangements nearer the date but would welcome hearing from you if you think that you can make that date.

Please could we have an offer of a cars only walks for the Sundays 1^st February and 22^nd February.  John