Creating Multi-user Public Rights of Way - A Guide for Local Groups is now available priced at £15.00 plus £2.50 post and packing. To secure your copy please send a cheque for £17.50 payable to The Trails Trust to:

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This ground breaking guide gives detailed advice and useful case studies to help people create new trails.

Rachel Thompson, author of the guide, explained that a user group in the Forest of Dean had already used it to secure landowner agreements in principle to the creation of new 50 miles of trails in the Forest – potentially creating the longest greenway in England.

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It’s been a galloping good first year for Ride Yorkshire. Set up to develop and promote leisure riding across Yorkshire, it has done just that. Ride Yorkshire has received funding from the East Yorkshire Leader (rural development) programme to map routes in the Yorkshire Wolds. Riders can bring their own horse on holiday here for 2 to 5 days, staying at fine East Yorkshire farmhouses each night, after following undulating grassy tracks and enjoying the far-reaching views. just that. For more information about Ride Yorkshire download its newsletter and visit the website.

www.rideyorkshire.org   Newsletter

The Government is under pressure from riding groups to equal the number of bridleways in the country (currently approx 20,000 miles) up to the same level as footpaths (approx 91,000) miles to help reduce horses on the road/accidents while promoting outdoor activity and safe use of the countryside for all sexes and ages. This will only happen if people sign the online petition. Please click here to sign and help get riders equal rights to walkers/ramblers: Sign Petition

If they get 100,000 signatures they have to do something about it, so please pass this on to as many people as possible.

William Reddaway of the Trail's Trust hopes to raise £250,000 for charity through a 2,500 mile sponsored ride around England. He plans to ride to the four corners of the country via towns and cities built and lived in for centuries by people with horses, visiting 30 cathedrals on the way.

The ride will start from Farncombe Esate, Broadway, in Spring 2013 and take six months. The two charities he has chosen are the Family Hoilday Association and Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre - Riding for the Disabled.

To find out more about Will's ride, sponsoer him, and follow his progress click here  >

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