Affiliations

We recognise the valuable work that has been done and continues to be done to protect and improve footpaths, bridleways, commons and open spaces by organisations such as:

• The Ramblers
• The Open Spaces Society
• The British Horse Society

Since South Herts Hikers started in Jan 2018, we have found some obstructed walking routes on highway footways, public footpaths and public bridleways and we are campaigning to get these re-opened. On behalf of our members, we are pleased to support both The Ramblers and The Open Spaces Society by paying an annual subscription to each organisation out of our Group Funds.

South Herts Hikers is affiliated to The Ramblers, Hertfordshire & North Middlesex Area

As a Ramblers Affiliated Club, we pay an annual subscription to the Ramblers and we support The charitable objectives of the Ramblers but you do not need to be a member of The Ramblers to join South Herts Hikers or to come on our walks.

“The charitable objectives of the Ramblers are to promote, encourage or assist in:

• The provision and protection of foot paths and other ways over which the public have a right of way or access on foot, including the prevention of obstruction of public rights of way.

• The protection and enhancement for the benefit of the public of the beauty of the countryside and other areas by such lawful means as the trustees think fit, including by encouraging the provision, preservation and extension of public access to land on foot.

• The provision of facilities for the organising of open-air recreational activities and in particular rambling and mountaineering with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities are intended, namely the public at large, and in the interests of social welfare (including health).

• Advancing the education of the public in subjects relating to access to, and the preservation and conservation of, the countryside and of the health benefits of outdoor recreational pursuits.

• The trustees may further the objectives particularly by helping all persons to a greater love, knowledge and care of the countryside and urban open spaces, and by encouraging participation in walking for recreation and as a means of transport.”

South Herts Hikers is also a member of The Open Spaces Society

According to The Open Spaces Society ‘How We Are Run’ web page:

The Open Spaces Society’s governing document is its Memorandum and Articles of Association and defines its objects as follows:

• to protect common land, open spaces and town and village greens from encroachment and, subject to the rights of the commoners, to secure their use by the general public;

• to protect, preserve and enhance existing public paths and carriageways used mainly as public paths and to secure their proper recording, maintenance and signposting for the benefit of the public;

• to secure the creation and preservation of new public paths, open spaces and access to and over open country for the benefit of the public;

• to protect the beauty of the countryside and to promote its fullest enjoyment by the public.

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