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Report from Publicity Officer

Regular articles with simplified programme details are sent to five local ‘free’ magazines, namely:

· Bradley Stoke Matters (which also covers the 5 Stokes);

· 5 Villages Alive (Falfield, Tortworth, Tytherington, Rockhampton and Cromhall);

· Inview (Severn Beach);

· The Boundary (Chipping Sodbury);

· Thornbury Magazine.

Our tri-monthly basic information entry in the Patchway People has been ignored now on two occasions. There seems to be no way of contacting anyone from the publication.

Weekly entries are made to the Weekender page of the Bristol Observer. These include location, date, time, meeting place, short basic walk description and most importantly a contact number. I do not include any walk leader names in any of these entries.

When we had a themed walk or there was a national Ramblers event, appropriate posters were designed, printed and sent to all the libraries in our area and anywhere else that would take them.

Library programmes (LPs) are distributed to all local libraries every 6 weeks, (i.e. two LPs per main programme). Filton library kindly distributes them to the other libraries for us. Copies are no longer placed with Sainsbury’s (Filton) as I discovered they were just left for staff to read and do not go on show to the public.

Good links have been established with South Glos ‘Walking For Health’. I also wrote an article about the Ramblers and specifically our group, for their summer newsletter.

Although there was a lot more I could have done, I feel that the publicity I have been able to do has been successful. We have had lots of people interested enough to give walking a try and join us for at least one walk, resulting in some new members.

As this is my last report, thank you to everyone for your support over the last 18 months.

Jill Field, Publicity Officer