To reserve your place on the coach please contact the secretary.
Welcome to The Aycliffe Fell Walking Club Website
Aycliffe Fell Walking Club is based in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham (near Darlington in the North East of England) and is open to everyone interested in fell walking or rambling. It caters for walkers of all abilities and ages. It became Aycliffe Fell Walking Club in 2011.
Each outing has a variety of walks of different lengths and difficulty ratings and transport is by comfortable coach that picks up in Darlington, Newton Aycliffe and Bishop Auckland.
The pickup times and routes are always published in each notification post, which can be accessed from this website.
Upper Swaledale – Healaugh to Muker on Saturday 25th January
Here are details of the next walk. Contact the club Secretary to reserve a seat on the coach.
2013 Xmas Wine & Spirit Draw – Result
The 2013 Xmas Draw has now been made and here is the result. Grateful thanks to all those who participated by selling tickets, making this year’s draw a tremendous success!
2014 Outings
This is a re-issue of the 2014 outings sheet. The April Daffodil Walk originally clashed with Easter Weekend, hence has been brought forward a week, to Saturday April 12th with this revision.
AFWC fail in their bid for a grant from the GAMP fund.
On Saturday 23rd November the club set up a stand at the Great Aycliffe & Middridge Partnership event Your Money, Your Area, Your Views. where local people were invited to vote on the local community projects they thought worthy of a grant. An allocation of £27,000 was available, to be shared between those projects that received most votes.
A total of 31 projects were exhibited, including Aycliffe Fell Walking Club, our stand being ‘manned’ by Sheila and Maria. Some 900 local people visited the event, which was held at the Newton Aycliffe Youth Centre between 11 am and 3 pm. In all, twelve projects received money from the scheme. Unfortunately we were unsuccessful in winning a grant.
However, we had lots of visits from people interested in walking, who until today were not aware of our walking club! Despite being unsuccessful in obtaining a grant all in attendance viewed the time as being well spent, and we can look forward to seeing some more new faces joining our walks in 2014.
Many thanks to all who attended the event to cast their vote, their attendance was greatly appreciated.
2013 12 Nidd Valley – Ripley to Pateley Bridge (Dales)
The December walk of the AFWC will be in the Yorkshire Dales: Nidd Valley – Ripley to Pateley Bridge. See the link below for details & how to book your place.
2013 AGM Minutes of Meeting & 2014 Walks
The 2013 AGM was quite well attended and was followed by a slide show of walks since the last AGM by Ian Hardcastle. The minutes of the meeting can be reached through the link below:
Voting on the 2014 Walks resulted in the following list of walks
AFWC Applies for Grant from the Great Aycliffe and Middridge Partnership
Aycliffe Fell Walking Club is applying for a grant to help it provide a full range of walks for the local community in the coming year.
To this end we will have a display stand and have entered the public vote that will take place on Saturday 23 November 2013 between 11.00am and 3.00pm at the Newton Aycliffe Youth Cente, Burn Lane, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 4HT.
YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED!
To vote you will need to register and then come along on the day. Here is the registration form:
A poster for the event can be reached through the link below:
PLEASE VOTE FOR US!
Barry Wilkinson – Secretary
Autumn in Lakeland – Thirlmere to Keswick , Saturday 16th November 2013
The autumn walk will see us returning to the wonderful Lake District. Details for booking your place are on the sheet which is linked below:
2013 Annual General Meeting – Agenda and 2014 Walks Voting sheet
The Annual General Meeting of the Aycliffe Fell Walking Club will be held in the INEOS Sports and Social Club Pavilion (School Aycliffe Lane, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6EA) on Wednesday 6th November 2013 at 7:30pm.
The bar will be open and there will be a computer and projector so that you can show your photographs or video clips after the AGM. Part of the meeting will be dedicated to voting to select the walks for 2014. The agenda is attached.
The voting sheet for the 2014 walks follows:
2014-Walks-Voting-Sheet (In Excel)
2014-Walks-Voting-Sheet (In Adobe Reader)
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