Author: Diane Davies

SECRETARY’S REPORT

Action needed

Draft Footpath Strategy document (already circulated with request for comments: deadline 3 September)
Festival of Winter Walks 26^th December to 2^nd January   (MK to note for submitting walks)

Material received from RA (roughly in order of interest/significance)

DVD:  Britain’s Walking History (10 min) (worth a look)
Group News for Secretaries (Summer 2007)
Annual Report & Accounts for 2005/6
Footpath Matters (July 2007, August 2007)
Circular 07/69: discretionary discounts
Report on Board of Trustees’ meeting 7^th July 2007

Other material

Ramblers Holidays Offers for August & September
Cancer Research Wales 4 mile walk Cardiff Bay Sunday 9^th September
Macmillan Cancer Support Iron Mountain Trail 7 mile walk Sunday 2^nd September

CWIII  PROGRESS

At the moment this work involves the creation of a database of walks in and around the Cardiff area with each walk having a Google map plus instructions that follow a set of markers on the map.

The present position with the work is:
(a) 13 of the 14 More Capital Walks have been converted to the new format (Walk 9 is still to be done);
(b)   Three further walks have been written and are on the website but not available to the public.  These are: 15:   Lisvane reservoirs;   16: Marshfield;   17: Cardiff Bay.
One other is still in the process of being written:
18:  Sculpture trail

A further 5 walks have been selected and volunteers sought to write them - deadline for these is end of September:
19:  Llandaff to St. Fagans
20:  Craig yr Allt
21:  Radyr  to St. Fagans
22:  Roath Park & The Heath 
23:  Pentyrch

What is missing now are walks on the Eastern side of Cardiff – one or two there would then give a reasonable coverage of the Cardiff area.

We are looking to revise the way the walks are presented on the website so that they represent a coherent group of “Cardiff Walks”.  Once that is done the next step will be to look at financing a “paper” version.

Diane