WALKERS ARE WELCOME Ross-on-Wye Herefordshire

Ross-on-Wye Walkers are Welcome Group

 Thelsam
Chapel Road
Ross-on-Wye
Herefordshire
HR9-5PR

Phone: 01989 563874

E-mail: samph13@gmail.com

 
April 2012

Dear Ross business owner,

You are probably aware that Ross is an accredited Walkers are Welcome town.

Walkers are Welcome status helps strengthen a town’s reputation as a place for visitors to come and enjoy the outdoors, bringing useful benefits to the local economy.  It helps to ensure that footpaths and facilities for walkers are maintained in good condition, benefiting local people as well as visitors.  Nationally there are now more than 75 walkers are welcome towns, and growing. Many of these in our local cluster.

Three very successful Ross Walking Festivals have been held in October each year and this year’s is to be held from Friday 28^th – Sunday 30^th September.  There are 12 walks on the programme including the very popular cream tea walk and the 3 Castles Walk. I have enclosed some leaflets for you and let you know that the booking office is now open. Should you require more leaflets, these are available at Ross Market House Visitor Centre.

Ross Walkers are Welcome have replaced stiles with gates in the Bridstow Parish and on the Wye Valley Walk and have improved signage on footpaths. The Committee has printed several walk leaflets and is very pleased that they saved the town map from extinction. 

This year we are proud to be hosting the National Walkers are Welcome annual conference; an opportunity to further raise the profile of Ross-on-Wye.  This will be held over the weekend of 20^th & 21^st October.  Delegates attending from other areas will be requiring overnight accommodation.  They will receive an accommodation list, highlighting our current sponsors. There will be a local walk on Saturday, an evening meal organised for Saturday evening and an all day conference on the Sunday.

To enable us to continue promoting Ross as a walking town  we seek sponsorship from local businesses.

Our Steering group is run by volunteers and is a very strong supporter of the Association of Ross Traders (ART) and we try to attend as many of their meetings as possible. We are also involved in the implementation of the Ross Town Plan and help to develop new walking routes in and around Ross.

Our web site www.ross-on-wyewalkersarewelcome.co.uk  has links to all our business supporters who have web sites.

If you are an existing sponsor, may we ask if you would be prepared to continue your support with a further donation? If you have yet to come aboard, may we invite you to join in and support our work to promote Ross by making a contribution? All contributors will be acknowledged as sponsors and listed on our business/accommodation page on the Ross Walkers are Welcome website, with a hyperlink to your own website. Accommodation sponsors will also be included on a printed sheet for the walking festival and the national conference.

We have included a business sponsor form at the bottom of this letter and if you are able to make a contribution we assure you that you money will be spent carefully and wisely. The Committee approves every item of expenditure before cheques are signed.

Please join in and help us to promote Ross as a great place to visit.

Our AGM, is held in April, and sponsors are encouraged to attend to hear a full review of activities throughout the year.

Once again, thank you.

Sam Phillips.

Chairman, Ross-on-Wye Walkers are Welcome Steering Group Committee

Ross-on-Wye Walkers are Welcome Group

www.ross-on-wyewalkersarewelcome.co.uk 

Membership of the Group entitles you to attend any Committee meetings and to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting. The AGM is held in April  when a full review of activities and detailed accounts will be presented to the members.

I wish to become a member of the Ross-on-Wye Walkers are Welcome Group and enclose my cheque for

£           made payable to ‘Ross-on-Wye Walkers are Welcome’. 

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Please complete the following details in capital letters:

Name of Business: ……………………………………….….……

Address: ……………………………………………………………

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Telephone Number:………………………………………………

Name of Contact: …………………………………………………

Email of Contact………………………………….Website:…………………………….

Official receipts will be provided for all contributions.  Contributors will be acknowledged on the Ross Walkers are Welcome Website.

Please complete and return your form to the Chairman:

Mr Sam Phillips, Thelsam, Chapel Road, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 5PR             Telephone:  01989 563874

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