http://www.cameronmcneish.co.uk/2009/08/statement-from-ramblers-scotland/ The Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:28:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.cameronmcneish.co.uk/2009/08/statement-from-ramblers-scotland/#comment-4177 cameron Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:03:08 +0000 http://www.cameronmcneish.co.uk/?p=403#comment-4177 Mmm, I was a little disappointed myself. Unfortunately I couldn't make the meeting but I did have a suspicion that not very much would be done at the moment. Incidentally, the Milnathort office is currently open, at least until the lease runs out. I think that perhaps you're being a little unfair to SCEC - this situation was not of their making and it's not so easy to simply 'walk away' from Ramblers GB. Ramblers Scotland has a lot invested in the UK-organisation. But I do agree with you that it's unlikely the GB board will increase any resources to Scotland in the foreseeable future Mmm, I was a little disappointed myself. Unfortunately I couldn’t make the meeting but I did have a suspicion that not very much would be done at the moment. Incidentally, the Milnathort office is currently open, at least until the lease runs out. I think that perhaps you’re being a little unfair to SCEC - this situation was not of their making and it’s not so easy to simply ‘walk away’ from Ramblers GB. Ramblers Scotland has a lot invested in the UK-organisation. But I do agree with you that it’s unlikely the GB board will increase any resources to Scotland in the foreseeable future

]]> http://www.cameronmcneish.co.uk/2009/08/statement-from-ramblers-scotland/#comment-4175 W Mackay Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:24:11 +0000 http://www.cameronmcneish.co.uk/?p=403#comment-4175 Having waited with bated breath for the outcome of the above meeting, I have to say that I am extremely disappointed with the apparent lack of any real progress in resolving the issue of the "cuts". To say, at this stage, that we "shall continue to urge the Board to increase the resources available to Ramblers Scotland" beggars belief given the short shrift given to their earlier submission. SCEC appear to be clutching at straws in the wind! And with regard to "we agreed that the Ramblers Office in Scotland must remain open" is it not a fact that said office is already closed. The point is that we will shortly be entering the season of Group AGMs and if SCEC have not got their act together by then, and got their increased resources or alternatively got their "independent Ramblers Scotland" off the ground, they are going to be overtaken by events, because we are going to have a situation of disillusioned members, Groups folding because the current suggested level of funding for them is insufficient to operate and no one willing to serve on Committees, and ex-members who want to walk, going their own way, and forming their own local walking clubs outwith Ramblers. Having waited with bated breath for the outcome of the above meeting, I have to say that I am extremely disappointed with the apparent lack of any real progress in resolving the issue of the “cuts”. To say, at this stage, that we “shall continue to urge the Board to increase the resources available to Ramblers Scotland” beggars belief given the short shrift given to their earlier submission. SCEC appear to be clutching at straws in the wind! And with regard to “we agreed that the Ramblers Office in Scotland must remain open” is it not a fact that said office is already closed.
The point is that we will shortly be entering the season of Group AGMs and if SCEC have not got their act together by then, and got their increased resources or alternatively got their “independent Ramblers Scotland” off the ground, they are going to be overtaken by events, because we are going to have a situation of disillusioned members, Groups folding because the current suggested level of funding for them is insufficient to operate and no one willing to serve on Committees, and ex-members who want to walk, going their own way, and forming their own local walking clubs outwith Ramblers.

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