HF Holidays donates £1,000 to the Peak District Appeal from its Pathways
Fund
21 July 08
We have just donated £1,000 to the National Trust’s Peak District Appeal from our Pathways Fund. The donation will go towards the National Trust’s conservation work at Dovedale, which needs £20,000 overall and is where our Country House Newton House.
The Pathways Fund is supported by donations from the company’s guests and provides grants for environmental improvement projects in the areas where they walk. Newton House, which has been owned by the friendly society since 1991and is just one of the 17 privately owned Country Houses, is ideally located just north of Ashbourne for walking the White Peaks and the Tissington Trail. It hosts walking and leisure activity holidays bringing thousands of visitors to the area every year.
Newton House Managers Mr and Mrs Steve and Hazel Hunt handed over the Pathways
Fund £1,000 donation towards Dovedale Appeal to the local National Trust’s Acting Property
Manager Mr Russell Ashfield outside Newton House.
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Recently we announced that we were making a significant increase to our regular donations to Mountain Rescue teams in 2008.
HF Holidays have been supporting the Mountain Rescue and other similar organisations for many years. We support 20 local Mountain Rescue teams to where our guests including Kendal, Keswick, Swaledale, Ogwen Valley and Glen Coe Mountain Rescue and many others.
Other volunteer organisations benefiting from HF Holidays support are Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society, or the Ramblers Association. HF Holidays is also committed to the natural environment and has also donated over £200,000 through its Pathways Fund to worthwhile countryside projects over the last 10 years.
Presentation to the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team
More than 8,000 people participated in the Earl Mountbatten Hospice, Walk the Wight on 18 May 2008. The Southeast's biggest charity walk was a huge success and has once again broken all records.
Over 1,000 children from 50 schools also took part, and walked the remaining 4 miles from Freshwater Bay to the finish at Alum Bay.
This is the largest sponsored walk in the South and walks across the breadth of the Isle of Wight raising money for the Island’s Hospice which cares for over 800 terminally ill patients every year. In 2007 over 5,000 people Walked the Wight raising over £217,000 towards patient care. It is a lovely walk across some of the Island’s most beautiful hills and countryside, predominantly on footpaths.
The final checkpoint of the walk was staged at HF Holidays’ Country House accommodation at Freshwater Bay and we would like to thank the members of staff and leaders who stood and handed out water and refreshments.
Our many congratulations to all whose who took part and completed their walk
As the country's biggest walking holidays company, we have, for the past 5 years, sponsored this great event and we are already looking forward to next year's walk.
Our Pathways Fund is supported by our Members and guests which helps protect the environment in our communities. Recently the Pathways Fund paid for the replacement of a footbridge on a concessionary path in the Peak District.
The new bridge has been constructed to a very high standard and the Pathways Fund involvement has established a good working relationship with the Peak Park Ranger Service.
A temporary 'thank you' notice has been erected by Peak Park which will be replaced by a permanent metal plaque thanking HF Holidays Pathways Fund for their involvement.
The Pathways Fund is kept buoyant through donations by our holiday guests. From the fund, grants are made to individuals and small organisations who seek to preserve or improve the environment in which HF Holidays' guests walk, but cannot readily obtain this funding from their own or other sources.
Guest donations make these worthwhile projects possible and we thank them for their support.
Our wonderful countryside is worth protecting - and we need your support. Please make your donations at our UK Country House accommodation or to our London office.
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We have just donated £1,000 to the National Trust’s Peak District Appeal from our Pathways Fund. The donation will go towards the National Trust’s conservation work at Dovedale, which needs £20,000 overall and is where our Country House Newton House.
