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RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION - CARDIFF GROUP 
Minutes of meeting held Thursday 27^th January 2011 at Ramblers Cymru Offices

Present: Committee: Gwyn Lewis (GL), Dave Willock (DW), Jane Willock (JW), Roma Whiteley (RW), Gillian Masters (GM), John Newton (JN), Mike Kohnstamm (MK).
Apologies:  Diane Davies (DD), Kathryn Bennett (KB), Paul Davies (PD), Jeff Hobden (JH).

1.  Chair for meeting: meeting chaired by JW.
2.  Minutes of the last meeting: minutes for 7 October 2010 were accepted. 
3.  Matters arising: 
~ 8. Cardiff Council have not shown any enthusiasm regarding the Group undertaking practical footpath work – the matter to rest until Council responds positively to our offer.
4.  Summer Programme:
a) Update on Walks Programme: satisfactory progress being made. MK to receive completed spreadsheets no later than Feb.11;
b) Coach trip pricing – pricing suggested in pre-meeting Rambles Officer Report accepted;
c) Passenger voluntary contribution – retained at .08p a mile, increase to be considered for Winter Walks Programme;
d) Programme “Children on Walks” entry – accepted revision as per Ramblers recommended wording;
e) Leader’s Evening – Group to continue to fund;
f) Tuesday Socials – accepted suggestion to alternate between Gatekeeper and Aneurin Bevan, with Aneurin Bevan’s on even months;
g) WalkTalk – submission deadline Feb.11. GM requested articles.
5. Membership recruitment initiative: consensus of a lively discussion was that Committee Members should be pro-active in converting New Walkers to New Members, whilst maintaining Group’s traditional “softly-softly” approach.
6. Website:  
a) Renewal of website confirmed by MK.
b) Revising “Cardiff Walks” page – MK to take this forward after production of Walks Programme.
7. Launch of Facebook: 
~ DD to launch with WalkTalk article. 
~ current 4 administrators (DD,JH,DW,MK) considered sufficient.
8 . Accident Book: Castell Coch incident 1/12/10 detailed in Secretary Report noted. GM to include “message in bottle” type article in WalkTalk.
9. Cardiff Walks Leaflets: PD’s recent email confirmed having recently re-stocked Tourist Info Centre.
10 Officers Reports: 
a)	Treasurer: pre-meeting email report accepted. Thanks to DD for Cardiff Walks efforts noted.
JN announced that he’d agreed to be Group Treasurer after Easter 2011.
b)	Secretary:  pre-meeting email report.
c)	Membership: Group membership as at 31/12/10 was 665.
d)	Footpath Officer: pre-meeting email report. 
e)	Rambles Secretary: pre-meeting email report. 
f)	Publicity: pre-meeting email report.
g)	Countryside/Environment: JN to monitor WAG project “Improving travel on and around the M4 between Magor and Castleton”.
h)	Glamorgan Area Council: pre-meeting email report. Request made for volunteer to attend next Area Council meeting Friday March 25.
10. AOB:
a) AGM: 
~ “Thank You”s to RW for slideshow and JN for Chair;
~ Richard Garman voted in as Honorary President 2010-11;
~ no motions raised at AGM requiring action from Committee.
b) Welsh Council 2011 – DD accepted as Group representative. 
c) Dates of Committee Meetings – DD to advise Committee on future meeting dates.

and: Group were Echo’s Club of the Week (4 January 2011)