Business Plan 2010-11 now available
The Ramblers Business Plan for 2010-11 (beginning on 1st October) has just been published. It sets out the priorities for the coming year. (News and action - 14th September 2010)
It contains the four priorities that we'll be working on over the coming year:
1. To end the year with more members than we started
2. More charitable income
3. Protecting and improving the path network
4. More efficiency and effectiveness
The business plan contains many ideas in the plan for how Areas and Groups can get involved in these priorities - for example:
- A new Area and Group Membership Beacon scheme, so that Groups can share membership recruitment successes
- Membership recruitment plans for Areas, with guidance and training
- Contacting lapsed and resigned members to see if they will rejoin
- Training for volunteers campaigning to stop rights of way spending cuts
- Practical path work teams, to help keep paths open for walkers
Tom Franklin, Chief Executive, said:
"The Business Plan sets out the focus for the coming year. Our four priorities are for the whole charity - Areas and Groups, volunteers and staff. The targets we're setting ourselves are tough, but they will help to protect the places where we love to walk (especially during the current public spending cuts), as well as secure the Ramblers future by making us stronger. We can achieve them if we all work together.
"In particular, we've set ourselves a goal of ending the year with more members than we started - after many years in which membership has gradually declined. I hope everyone gets on board with this, and we go all-out to increase membership. Are there things that your Area or Group could do to support this and the other goals?
"No plan goes entirely as predicted, and I'm sure this one won't either. But it does mean we have a clear framework for the coming year. We'll be reporting progress during the year."
Click on the links below to download either the full web edition or the executive summary. (If you prefer to download text-only versions - smaller file sizes - they are available underneath).
RamblersBusinessPlan201011webedition.pdf
RamblersBusinessPlan201011executivesummary.pdf
Text only versions below:
RamblersBusinessPlan2010webeditiontextonly.pdf
RamblersBusinessPlan2010executivesummary.pdf
