News

Our Chair worked with Newport Rotary to produce and distribute a map of the benches in Newport

Our Chair received a defibrillator from DENSO for installation at one of the places where our walks start. DENSO have purchased a number of these valuable devices to give to local community groups because they recently had a member of their own staff collapse and their First Aiders used one of these device to save their colleagues life. The team that came to the aid of the DENSO employee are shown in the photo.

The next walk leader training is booked for March 8th 2019 at the Madeley Court Medical Practice. If you would like to help us grow our acheme, please come to the training. Booking and further details from [email protected]

Until further notice the Lilleshall Thursday evening group are meeting at 6 pm at The Last Inn (recently called Aston’s) car park, TF10 9EJ

The January Wrekin News carries a full page about our scheme. We have already had at least 2 new walkers because of it. Thank you Wrekin News.

Follow this link for Seasons greetings from the Chair  Greetings from the admin team too. We don’t hold our walks on Bank Holidays. Normal walks will resume on January 2nd.

We are changing to Mailchimp for the Walk Leaders email list.  At the same time we are building a new list for walkers and anyone else interested in our activities.  There won’t be much traffic on this list but we will use it to publicise new walks and any meetings we think might be of interest.   The  sign-up form is here.

Good AGM yesterday . We reluctantly said goodbye to Celia as coordinator, but we will still see her on walks. We said hello to Lynne as coordinator. If anyone can fill Celia’s shoes it will be Lynne. The committee had already decided to award the Alf Clewes shield to Lynne and Chas jointly before she volunteered. We presented Walk Leader Certificates to a record number of new leaders. Guest speaker John Box gave an interesting presentation on Telford: The Forest City at 50.  Then we celebrated Telford at 50 and us at 5 as a volunteer led scheme with cake.

Are you busy all week and unable to join one of our walks. We do have a walk on a Sunday morning at 10.30am. It starts at the back of Tesco’s car park ( the walk leaders have Hi Viz vests on, so easy to spot) all you need to do is come along about 10.20am, wear sensible shoes e.g. trainers or walk boots and go for a gentle walk, working up an appetite for Sunday Lunch! John and Harry will be happy to meet you.

Our AGM for 2018 will be on Thursday 15th November 2018 beginning 10.00am in Meeting Point House, Telford Town Centre.  All are welcomed.

We are looking for nominations to committee as some of our current members are standing down, if you are interested then please contact [email protected].