Offa's Dyke Association
Offa's Dyke AssociationPRESS RELEASE
Dated: 5th May 2009
On the May Day Bank Holiday members of the Offa’s Dyke Association once again converged on Knighton for their traditional AGM weekend. At the formal meeting on Saturday afternoon Chairman Sophie Blain reported a successful year, with the accounts returned to a healthy state. ODA Secretary Ian Bapty was optimistic that recent negotiations with Powys County Council would secure the funding of the Offa’s Dyke Centre for the next three years. Hope was even held out that the Association might gain some benefit from the Credit Crunch as UK residents looked for holidays nearer to home.
2009 is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the ODA and after the AGM Ian Rowat celebrated this with a talk entitled “40 years of National Trails”. Ian was Offa’s Dyke Development Officer from 1982 to 1986, and is now Director of the Malvern Hills Conservators and a member of ODA’s Executive Committee.
On Sunday 3rd May the current Offa’s Dyke Path Officer, Rob Dingle, took ODA members for a walk on the National Trail in the South Shropshire Hills , starting from the Kerry Ridgeway, near Montgomery.
Press release by Jim Saunders, who is ODA’s committee member responsible for press and PR.
In the above photograph, by Jim Saunders, ODA Secretary Ian Bapty (left) introduces speaker Ian Rowat at the ODA’s AGM.
In the above photograph, by Jim Saunders, Ian Rowat holds forth on “40 years of National Trails” at the ODA’s AGM.
The above photograph, by Rob Dingle, shows ODA members on The Bridge Over the River Unk, in the South Shropshire Hills.
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