Last update: 23rd February 2025
Quiz Night, Saturday 1st March 2025
Late Spring Holiday -Liverpool, Mon 2nd - Fri 6th June
Longest Day Celebratory Meal & Walk, Sat 21st June
Martin's Big Walk 2025, Apr-Oct 2025
Autumn Holiday - Corton Suffolk, 6th-10th (Mon-Fri) Oct 2025
At Fullwell Cross Library (next to the swimming pool and near Fairlop Underground Station). There is a car park opposite the library. You would be very welcome to come on your own or bring friends. So, book individually and join a team on the night, or book as a table of 8. Entry £10 per person, INCLUDES a tasty Ramblers supper. BRING your own DRINKS and GLASSES
Angie L.
Ron has booked a central Liverpool hotel The Indigo, for our 2025 (late) Spring Holiday.
I have booked a central Liverpool hotel -The Indigo, for our 2025 (late) Spring Holiday. Costs (based on 42+going) will be £560/person (twin/double) and £580/person (single). There are 10 single rooms at the extra cost of £5 per night (£580). I am trying for extra single rooms which may cost more per room.
Allocation of single rooms will now be done by ballot (see page 2). So if you need a single room simply email me (and pay a £50 deposit) by Friday February 14th at latest. To book a twin or double room either - send a deposit cheque for £50, made out to Redbridge Ramblers, to Ron W., together with your details as shown below or - pay the deposit by bank transfer, which is our preferred method.
Ron W.
Following the success of this year's post Festive Meal (see pages 3 and 4) the committee have decided that we should try to repeat the exercise in mid Summer to treat our members and to spend some more of the budget surplus that the club still has in our bank account. So it was agreed that we should use Saturday 21st June 2025 to celebrate the Longest Day of the Year for this event.
By lucky coincidence I have already booked out that date for a “Longest Day Walk” and so it is proposed that after a short local walk finishing near Wanstead (see Walks Programme for more details) we should all meet at a pub in Wanstead High Street (venue still to be confirmed) to celebrate with a simple meal/wine/beer subsidised by the club. Members can either go on the walk and onto the pub or just join everyone at the pub for 13:00 to 13:30.
Details are still being worked out and will be issued out separately later but at this stage, please “hold the date “ if interested in participating. It is proposed that a nominal £10 payment will be charged to help with numbers/organisation of the event.
Neville
I plan to walk the DARENT VALLEY WAY in Kent next year -this is a 19 mile walk from Dartford to Sevenoaks. I will then continue to lead long walks in Kent until October. The dates for the Saturday walks in Kent :-
Martin H.
Cost (if we get at least 40 people) for room, evening dinner, bed and breakfast and use of indoor swimming room £ 430 (£450 for a single room) It is becoming impossible to get the number of single rooms that we had in the past. However, we can get more single rooms at an additional cost of £40 per night. There are 8 single rooms which have a supplement to pay of £5 per night (i.e. £20). These 8 single rooms will now be allocated by ballot. So if you need a single room simply email Ron (and pay the £50 deposit) by Friday 14th March at the latest. If you are willing to share, please say so, and if possible with whom. TO BOOK A TWIN OR DOUBLE ROOM EITHER - send a deposit cheque for £50
The Redbridge Ramblers 2024 AGM was successfully held on Saturday 16th November 2024 at the Barkingside Library. We had 30 members in attendance and we followed our normal agenda (published in the last Newsletter - the 24/25 Winter Edition).
New Committee :-We said goodbye to Antoinette Connolly as our Committee Secretary and welcomed Jenny Mazarelo as her replacement.
The Clubs Holidays and Social programme for 2025 was discussed and dates/venues agreed. A number of issues were raised by the members which the new committee will address in 2025.
This will be held on Saturday 16th November starting at 3 pm in the Fullwell Cross Library (same venue as last year). The later start this year is because of difficulty in getting an earlier booking. As before previous AGMs I will be leading a short walk to the nearby Fairlop Oak pub for a drink/refreshments before the AGM. This walk will be starting at Buckhurst Hill tube station at 12 o'clock (note later time!) and go thro' Woodford Bridge and Claybury Park to the pub/library at Fullwell Cross. Hopefully I'll see you there. Pre-papers, Agenda and Committee Member's Annual Reports will be issued out as usual in the Winter 24/25 Newsletter (out late October) prior to the AGM.
Neville B.
Martin led 10 of his regular walkers (plus me ) on an excellent walk from Fairlop tube to the Monkhams pub near Buckhurst Hill (via Fairlop Waters Park /Claybury Park ( via the muddy route of course)/Luxborough Lane). He had organised a (very reasonably priced) 3 course Christmas Meal for us all which was very much appreciated.
On the Saturday before this (14/12) I led a large group (approx. 23)of Saturday walkers into South Woolwich from the Royal Albert DLR station near Beckton (last leg of the Capital Ring walk ). We enjoyed excellent festive drinks and food at the Weatherspoon's pub there after the walk.
Neville.46 Redbridge Ramblers Members thoroughly enjoyed an excellent post Christmas Festive Meal (and drinks !)at the Buckhurst Hill Toby Carvery on Saturday 18th January. The club had decided to subsidise the event for the second time this year so a good turn out was guaranteed!
4Huge thanks must go to Angie L. for taking all of the bookings and organising the event so well.
Also I’d like to thank Jack W. (in his absence on holiday) for his generous donation of his Mitchells and Butlers Vouchers (Jack is an ex M&B employee) which gave the club a 20% discount on our total bill. Well done Jack.