Chairman's Reports

Chairman’s Report

April 2008

At our last AGM in September 2007, Commander Ingram, Mrs. A. Mead and Mrs. J. Treharne stood down from the Committee. At the same meeting Mr. D. Worthy resigned as our editor. This left us with too little time to find a replacement editor for the production of the Autumn newsletter.
However, since the AGM, three new members have been co-opted on to the Committee. Two of these, Mr Mal Treharne and Mr Alan Hughes, together with Mrs. Jane Warmington have volunteered to produce the revamped newsletter, with Mr. Alan Corkett as Editor. I hope you enjoy it! The third new member on our Committee is Mrs. Wendy Hofmaier.
Apart from our yearly donation to the restoration projects of three churches (St. Pancras, West Bagborough; All Saints, Aisholt; St. Georges, Bicknoller), we have made donations towards the following projects:  Improvement of the vegetation on Aisholt Common; Restoration of beech hedge 7 banking, Quantock Common; New wooden gate at Triscombe Stone car park; Quantock link project - a new public right of way at Plainsfield which will ensure a safe route for horse riders, cyclists and walkers, because they will not have to cross a busy road; Reinstatement of Bicknoller and Halsway posts; Volunteer Ranger toolkits; New Interpretation panels at Waterpitts Farm. 

 The talk on Butterflies, held at Bishops Lydeard village hall, raised £80 for the Conquest Centre.            

Because the proposed deer cull this autumn caused such anxiety among the public, we have included a shortened version of Dr. Langbein’s letter on the subject in this newsletter and added the AONB deer management leaflet.  I hope you’ll find both helpful. 

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