Sherburn Boghoppers
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Messages from John Penrose Sent: 14th April 2024 With the usual request for offers to lead an A or B walk where a vacancy exists (and you can choose the location where none is yet listed!) here is the current state of the Sherburn Boghoppers programme for 2024- 28th April Malham A walk- John Penrose B walk- Eric Mitchell ….. now booking! 30th April Temple Newsam Walk Leader Training course …. places still available 19th May Thornton Le Dale A walk- Alan Yeaman B walk- Eric Mitchell 9th June Settle A walk- Michele Duff B walk- Melvin King 28th -30th June Boghopper Lakes Weekend, Keswick 21st July Reeth A walk- John Penrose B walk- Leader needed 18th August Elsecar Combined A and B walk - Christine Snowdon 8th September Leyburn A walk- Leader needed B walk- Melvin King
Proposed Future Dates (please consider if you can offer a walk on one of these dates With a coach- 29th September 20th October 10th November 1st December Without coach- 15th December There has been insufficient interest to allow us to book at the Lion Inn for a Christmas meal. All of the coach supported trips in the above list will have pick ups at Micklefield, Aberford and Wetherby except for the 19th May to Thornton le Dale which will be Tadcaster only.
Sent: 11th April 2024 Our next trip is on Sunday 28th April when the coach will be taking us to Malham. Eric Mitchell is leading a B walk from Gargrave to Malham using the route of the Pennine Way, a lovely section of the route. I will be leading a circular walk from Malham that will take in some fantastic limestone scenery including Malham Cove, Malham Tarn and Weets Top. Please book your places on the coach with Jean by Saturday 20th April.
Sent: 4th March 2024 Please note that we have decided to raise the membership subscription (which is now due) to £12 per annum. Coach fares will also rise to £15 (£17 for visitors). Both are quite sharp rises but reflect the fact that we have been subsidising the cost of coach hire from our funds and have made a loss of over £700 last year. Had these rates been used last year we would have just broken even. Please pay your subscription as soon as possible. Cheques or cash to Barbara Beeton (or pay on the coach on the 17th March).
You can also pay your £12 by direct bank transfer to 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 16th April.
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