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From Ramblers Assc: HF Holidays is Ramblers new recommended walking holiday partner.This email announces the new partnership between Ramblers and HF Holidays, which will help us with both membership and raising funds for the charity.

It has been emailed to Chairs, Secretaries, Membership Secretaries, Footpath Secretaries, Access Secretaries , Countryside Secretaries, Publicity Officers and Treasurers – all at both Area and Group level.”

We are pleased to announce that HF Holidays, is to become Ramblers new recommended walking holiday partner. From October this year, HF Holidays will be supporting the work of Ramblers with a number of initiatives designed to increase membership of the charity, and raise funds for its work. We will be the organisation’s walking Charity of the Year, with a donation for every Ramblers member who books a holiday with HF Holidays .

I am delighted that the UK’s largest walking holidays company is choosing to support our work. Our organisations, both long-established and member-based, have a great deal in common. Both are passionate about opening up the British countryside to walkers, and recognise the benefits of walking for everyone .Brian Smith, HF Holidays’ Chief Executive, has recognised that “HF Holidays’ members and guests owe a great deal to the campaigning work of the Ramblers, particularly in terms of countryside access. Also this partnership will allow us to work more closely together in promoting the social and health benefits of walking, and also to support the work of Ramblers in general.”

As we move forward we will be developing initiatives to support our members including making HF Holidays country houses around the UK available to Ramblers areas and groups for events. With our need to stem the decline of Ramblers membership and increase our income to support our great work, it is vital that all our partnerships work to support the Ramblers. This new partnership with HF Holidays has been designed to achieve this. The Ramblers must focus on membership growth and increasing income to support our important charitable work and our Areas and Groups. We therefore must work with partners who will assist us with this.

As many of our members will know, we share a long history with Ramblers Worldwide Holidays, and whilst we will maintain a relationship with them, HF Holidays is our new recommended Holiday Provider. We believe that our new partnership with HF Holidays offers the best benefits for our members and for our charitable work. We look forward to working with them to protect the British Countryside and encourage more people to get out walking. Like other charities we are having to work harder to generate income, and the Ramblers has survived some difficult times, it is for this reason that we must work with partners who can help us with membership and income. For this reason we have set up this new partnership with HF Holidays.

I’m really proud of our history with Ramblers Worldwide Holidays and our future with HF holidays and I believe this announcement is in the best interests of our members and the Ramblers future. Please can pass on to your members as appropriate, and make them aware of this announcement.

For further information please go www.ramblers.org.uk/hfholidaysor if you have any questions please email marketing@ramblers.org.uk and we will get back you as soon as possible. Yours sincerely Tom Franklin Chief Executive Fax: 020 7339 8501 Follow my tweets at http://twitter.com/RamblersTom

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