Last committee meeting notes

Committee Meeting notes from Tuesday 9 November

  1. Attending were: John Hinchcliffe, Stuart Knowles, Carol Lindley, John Smedley, Michelle Peake, Peter Smith, Jan Smith, Alyson Linnegar, Roger Linsell. All present, no apologies.
  2. Our next organised walk will be on Thursday 30 December starting at 10.30 from the Church Hall. (That booking is now confirmed)  Roger will send a note to The Arrow and Michelle will post on Facebook.
  3. Links to the Health Walks programme will be entered prominently on our website. John will talk to Christine Johnson, the Health Walks organiser about a possible reverse link.
  4. Two new wayside seats are to be placed shortly. These have been sponsored and paid for by the Parish Council. One will be on the Greenway near Low Burnham (there are no seats in that stretch at the moment) and one will be on Greenholme Lane near the junction of the path into the Turbary. It is important that, to avoid mould and damp, the seats are not under a heavy canopy and they should enjoy a reasonable view.
  5. Finance - We currently have a little over £400 in cash and bank deposit with one outstanding bill for hall hire and one outstanding claim for the last walk expenses. We will be able to claim expenses for the next walk but that will be the last occasion for claiming. The IoAHC organisation, which has supported us will cease in April.
  6. Advertising notices. John will enquire about the cost of small, weather proof,  printed notices advertising Haxey Walkers and the website. Those that Pete Smith kindly provided have faded but served a purpose in advertising the website. Traffic to the site is still respectable for a small niche organisation.
  7. Next meeting will be the AGM combined with a committee meeting specifically to organise a spring walk. That is provisionally  on Thursday 20 January at 7.30

 

Last AGM meeting notes

Haxey Parish “Walkers are Welcome” Group latest meeting agenda and/or meeting notes

Haxey Walkers Annual General Meeting

7.00pm Wednesday 27th January by ZOOM

Meeting Notes

1 Attending were: John Smedley, Peter Smith, Alyson Linnegar, Michelle Peake, John Hinchcliffe, Jan Smith, Roger Linsell, Carol Lindley, Stuart Knowles.

2 The minutes of the previous AGM 2020 were accepted as accurate.

3 Matters arising - information board, see under finance, below.

4 The Chairman presented his report. (attached below)

5 The Treasurer, Alyson Linnegar, presented the financial report, attached below. There are two small outstanding costs, one for the small fingerpost signs, printed by Peter, about £17 and one for the website domain name, about £14. The insurance, about £100, will be due around May (The last period was extended to 15 months)

6 Elections of Officers - the current officers and committee were duly re-elected. Stuart Knowles and Carol Lindley kindly agreed to join the committee.

7 The project proposed for an information board for Low Burnham using the existing plinth on The Greenway came to a full stop, since all the information seemed to be in The Mechanics Institute library, which has been closed since March. However we have two contacts who may be able to provide firm historical information, one the residents association of Low/High Burnham and the other Bob Fish, for whom Stuart has provided contact details. Once we know for sure that the information is available Roger will go back to the local authority to see if the grant is still available.

8 The website continues to be well used attracting about 300 hits and 1500 page views per month. It was boosted by the placing of the Walkers signs on the fingerposts around the parish.

9 Rights of way improvement:

  1. John highlighted in his Chairman’s report that the North Lincolnshire Council has responded well in clearing the footpath 86 and in replacing, repairing fingerposts. Currently the network is being very well used. Please let him know of any improvements that you can see desirable.
  2. Stuart Knowles put forward the main proposal (notes previously circulated and below) for a new footpath to be created from Upperthorpe Road to the Water Tower, linking the network of tracks in the North of the Parish to those in the South. Everyone agreed that such a track would be of substantial benefit, but it is known that the farmer whose fields it would cross is strongly opposed to the idea. In view of this opposition and the level of supporting evidence required it would be a very difficult to push this forward.

10 Benches -Colin Mathias has contacted us to say that he is acquiring some timber suitable to make some seats / benches in suitable places. We will happily accept his offer (cost now thought to be about £30). Suggestions of places that would benefit are welcome.

11 A committee meeting will be organised when there is a prospect of organising a community walk or if any initiative requires a significant decision.

11 The meeting finished promptly (rather abruptly) at 7.40

Chairman's Report 2021

  1. It has been an extraordinary year by any measure for our Group.
  2. The Coronavirus Covid 19, and various lockdowns meant that we could not have any committee meetings or our planned community walks. However the positive outcome from these restrictions was that people have been walking our Parish footpaths more than ever before.
  3. Members have been reporting Improvements to the footpaths to me throughout the year. I compiled a list for North Lincolnshire Council team and I am pleased to say that the majority have been completed One path that has been made useable again by NLC after many years is FP 86 opposite Mill Lane.Still outstanding are the two sets of steps off the old railway line, FP 119, and the erection of the finger post at west end of Northside, FP 99.
  4. NLC are still progressing the adoption of FP 97, north of East Lound, to the Definitive Footpath Map.
  5. Thanks to Peter and Roger, another big step forward was the production and fixing of Haxey Walkers signs on many of the finger posts in the Parish. This resulted in an increase in people accessing our website.
  6. Please keep letting me know if you see anything that needs repairing or improving. There is a chance that the Parish Council may have some spare money to carry out some improvements that NLC will not do e.g putting stone down on particular muddy parts of the network, or seats at certain points.Please let me have any suggestions
  7. Alyson has done a great job looking after our finances. She has had to endure some fun and games with Yorkshire Bank but at the end of the year, we still have a healthy balance of over £500.
  8. Finally may I give a big thank you to all the committee members for all their continuingsupport throughout the year, and hope that it will not be too long before we can have our community walks again.

John Smedley, Chairman

Finance report