Use Your Paths Week
20 - 28 September 2008
Based on what’s happened in the last few years it’s likely that September will see our best ‘summer weather’ for 2008. Warm and sunny days are not all the month has to recommend it though – the Ramblers’ focus will be on Use Your Paths Week – taking up its new home in the final week of the month.
The theme is ‘Working Together’, and Ramblers volunteers across the country have been planning events to draw together local organisations with an interest in public rights of way. We'll be working with Town, Parish, and Community Councils - and also involving other interest groups in this work, such as the Scouts, Guides, WI, and Rotary, Lions, Round Table, etc.
The Ramblers has always believed that open and useable path networks play a vital role in connecting communities – in many ways. The physical links are obvious, but also important are the social ties that paths create, and the link to our natural world that they provide.
Too many people see rights of way as a recreational resource for a minority. By working together with a diverse range of other local organisations we hope to prove that our path networks – in both rural and urban areas – are much more than this. The challenge, of course, is in making this case effectively to the tier of local government which holds the purse strings.
If you would like to be involved in building local alliances for paths, or have suggestions on how the Ramblers could work more effectively with other organisations at a local level, please get in touch with Adrian Morris, Head of Rights of Way, using our online form, or on 020 7339 8524.
