Chase Trails, the lovely volunteer trail builders responsible for such Midlands gems as “Follow the Dog” and “Monkey Trail” at Cannock Chase need our / your / anyone’s help to get money out of those Lottery people.
Read on to find out what you could do ….
A message from the guys at Chase Trails:
Hi fellow trail builders,
I’m writing on behalf of the volunteer trail building group Chase Trails. We’re delighted to announced that we have reached the semi-finals of the National Lottery awards.
For over 8 years Chase Trails volunteers have worked to design, build, maintenance mountain bike trails on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. Over 100,000 people have now ridden the network of cycling trails built in partnership with the Forestry Commission.
The trails continue to grow thanks to our efforts building trails every Sunday morning. We are always looking for new volunteers to come and get involved and will be holding our next ‘Big Build Day’ on Sunday 3rd July.
I’m writing to ask if you would support our project by helping us promote this news and encouraging people to vote for us.
By supporting Chase Trails you’ll be showing your support for the trails and the work the volunteers do to build and maintain them. We’d encourage all of the mountain bike community to get behind us and show their support for trail development and the future of sustainable mountain biking in the UK.
People can vote online www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/best-sport-project/141/ or by calling 0844 836 9721 (voting closes at midday on 20 June so vote today)
There are several ways in which you might be able to help us, we’d really appreciate any help you are able to give us.
1. VOTE for us at www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/best-sport-project/141/
2. Forward this email to your colleges / mailing lists and encourage them to vote
3. Tweet or post the following on your facebook page
“Please VOTE for volunteer trail building group Chase Trails in the National Lottery Awards
http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/best-sport-project/141/”
4. Post this as a news item on your website
If could do any of this for us we’d be extremely grateful.
Hopefully this will help Chase Trails and other trail building groups gain some national recognition for all their hard work.
Many thanks,
Rob.
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Robert Lamb – Chase Trails
International Year of Forests & European Year of Volunteering (2011)
I don’t know which one’s Rob but they look a happy bunch and the kind of people you’d trust with a few hundred thousand