Walking Weekend 2010

2010 New Futures Nepal Trekking Reunion Walking Weekend‏
Friday evening, 19th March 2010 to

Sunday lunchtime, 21st March 2010

Venue: "YHA Ilam Hall is a Youth Hostel to remember! A Victorian gothic manor house owned by the National Trust, it makes for a civilised break. Its grounds stretch to 84 acres of country park on the banks of the River Manifold, making outdoor games, woodland wanders and riverside walks an appealing possibility. Walk in the gently undulating White Peak area of the Peak District National Park, visit Dovedale and the Tissington and Manifold Trails. YHA Ilam Hall has undergone an extensive programme of improvements over winter 2008/2009 and now offers an excellent standard of accommodation for families, individuals and groups. Families will be able to take advantage of more private en suite rooms - some with double beds - and a brand new cafe/bar for relaxing in after a busy day exploring the Peak District." 

YHA Ilam Hall http://www.yha.org.uk

Apart from the weekend raising funds, it is also a social weekend with a choice of walks or just being a free spirit

Costs: Same as 2009, i.e. £85 for adults, £50 for children
(Sunday lunch may be offered as a separate cost)
The cost includes the following:
- dinner on Friday and Saturday night
- breakfast on Saturday and Sunday
We ask you to buy a pub lunch (or similar) on the Saturday whilst we're out walking or being a free spirit.
 

On behalf of: New Futures Nepal : email your booking or interest to Trustee andrewsmall64@aol.com. Please don't send any money until requested.

There are a couple of things that would help a lot:
 
1.  In the next few months can you do a small amount of fundraising for the charity and 'bring it along'?  Some ideas are: run a coffee morning, auction your husband, look down the back of the sofa, walk to work and save the bus fare, clean your own car and save the cost of the car-wash, walk the neighbours dog, fill another smartie tube with 20p coins?  For every £125 that we raise between now and then, we can look after the TOTALl needs of one child for a whole month...that means less than £1 a day to raise.
 
2. Do you have any old mobile phones or inkjet cartridges that you don't want?  NFN now has a link through Green Source solutions – see green fundraising, who recycle used mobile phones and used ink cartridges so all you need to do is collect and bring along your used inkjet cartridges or old mobile phones and we'll send them off to Greensource after the event and in return the charity will receive a payment based on the number of items recycled.
 
Finally, if you would like to forward this invitation to friends or people I’ve accidentally missed or don’t have email addresses for then please do so.
 
We do hope you can join us.
 
2009 YHA WALKING WEEKEND AND AGM. 
 
Over the last 4 years we have organised a Youth Hostel (or B&B) Walking Weekend, all of which have been a chance for supporters to meet the trustees and attend our AGM. It has seen New Futures Nepal descend on Grassmere, Castleton, Gradbach, and 2009 was at the brand new National Forest YHA.
 
Apart from the weekends raising funds, it is also a social weekend with a choice of walks or just being a free spirit. 2009 weekend was held at the new YHA at the National Forest near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Derbyshire and was a particularly successful with just under 60 people joining us. It was also a chance for the New Futures Nepal 2008 Charity Trek Party to reunite with their trekking group.  
 
The main walk, (shorter ones for those less energetic) started at the hostel and followed a circular route passing through a mix of very new plantations which needed the imagination to be seen as the forest of the future to other centuries old countryside and villages. We strolled through villages such as Overseal and down to Botany Bay (did not see any boats!). Cottons in the Elms was our first refreshment stop, of course only the pub was open. Few of the elms which gave the village its name remain as result of Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970s.
 
Leaving Cotton in the Elms we walked along ‘the coffin route’, Before the graveyard at Coton was begun, the dead were carried to Lullington for burial along this route through the “Devil’s Arches”.   Lullington was our next refreshments and pub lunch stop. Lullington has the distinction of being the most southerly village in Derbyshire. The Colville Arms is named after Charles Robert Colville, former Lord of the Manor and MP for Lullington in the mid 1800s.
 
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The homeward bound route took us through Birchington House to Netherseal. Netherseal was recorded in the Domesday  In the late 1800s, a large colliery produced 500 tons of coal per day with around 500 men employed. Sir Nigel Gresley, designer of The Mallard steam locomotive, which held the world speed record of 126 mph in 1938, is buried in the churchyard. After the village of Donisthorpe we joined the Heritage Trail back to the Hostel.
 
Like other years it is important to all of the trustees, (for which New Futures Nepal is very personal in that we all have known and grown up with the children and their carers over the last 7 years), to make every effort to meet our supporters and for them to have the chance to feel more than just a donator or sponsor.
 
 

 

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