Work parties and charity events

The Weardale Ski Club Ltd

Just a quick reminder of our first work party of the summer which is on Sunday 14 June starting at 10am meeting at the car park. The main job will be fencing - a mixture of repairing old snow fencing and creating new snow fencing though there will be many other jobs both skilled and unskilled if snow fencing is not your thing!

Can I also use this opportunity to advertise a couple of charity events which although not directly linked to the ski club have some connections and are directly linked to Weardale and are for fantastic charities.

I work at The Weardale Medical Practice in Stanhope and we have chosen the Butterwick Hospice outreach at Weardale Community Hospital as our charity of the year. I have talked my partners and many of the staff and their families - the youngest being 5 - into doing the C2C cycle route over 2 days from Whitehaven to Tynemouth - 140 miles + lots of hills (some of the staff including myself will cycle the whole route, others including the 5 year old will do selected sections!).We are hoping to raise as much as possible for The Butterwick, a charity that relies entirely on donations to keep it running, and which provides a fantastic service to many terminally ill patients. We are planning to cycle to Stanhope on day 1 which covers 100 miles and most of the hills (except Crawleyside!) and then a "leisurely" day to Tynemouth on the Sunday. If you wish to donate anything then that kindly Mr Richard Branson has set up a website which is simple to use and free - http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/stanhopehealthctoc

There are also sponsorship forms at various sites in Weardale,

Also local man John Carrick, who has helped WSC in the past and whose team plough the road in winter,  is organising a charity tractor run on Sunday 14 June from Stanhope showground 9am to 3pm so you may see them on your way to the work party! This is to raise funds for another 2 great charities www.teenagecancertrust.org and http://sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk/ 

Details of the event will appear in the Weardale Gazette on 6 June and the Teesdale Mercury.

Steve

Summer work parties

The Weardale Ski Club Ltd

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all looking forward to your summer holidays, no doubt with memories of last winter fading. Without having spectacular snow we still managed quite a successful season with 17 days skiing and some of those days were excellent. We also managed to hold our BBQ which again was very successful and is hoped to be continued annually. 

Our thoughts are now turning to the summer work parties and we have quite a lot of work to be carried out before next season. We looked into the possibility of snow making at Swinhope and whilst it is a possibility we concluded that a cheaper,easier and more cost effective option is to significantly improve our snow fencing to retain the snow that we get and harvest it using our pistebasher. As a result snow fencing is one of our main jobs this summer, though the usual maintenance and repair program continues as usual, so as many hands as possible will be needed if we are to get it all done.

Provisional dates are Sunday 14 June and Saturday 27 June and Sunday 13 September and Saturday 26 September. We may also include a midweek day or two around those weekends and I will send reminder emails out a few days before each.

Finally we are looking for a volunteer to help in the production of newsletters so if anyone out there has the requisite skills and software to pull together news items into a format that can be either printed or emailed out we would be delighted to hear from you. We can produce the content, though any articles that members have that might be of interest to others are gratefully accepted, so all we are looking for is someone with the specific IT skills in the final stages. We hope to produce 3 or 4 a year, though 2 or 3 of these will be eNewsletters and only 1 or possibly 2 will be printed.

Look forward hopefully to seeing many of you over the summer.

Steve