The Reason to Arrive

The essence of this document is first, aspirational, in that, we live within an area of outstanding beauty and resource. Personally my aspiration having signed on to a five year project to work with Sustrans as one of their Volunteer Liaison Ranger, is to improve the walking and cycling access to the Borough from the East from Whitby into Saltburn and Redcar, from the West via Middlesbrough-Nunthorpe into Guisborough. Also to look from the South via Kildale off the NCN52 into the Borough from over the North Yorkshire Moors.

Before I enhance upon these projects we must first realise that from within the local Councils and Media we should have a mission to raise public awareness locally to our area and in using the world wide web to promote the cultural and tourist opportunities available within our landscapes, thus enhancing Job creation.

The first upon the agenda is to search out for our local heroes and to energise these people and business to the public, therefore the Media objective is to bring awareness to such Heroes and their presence within our community to enhance tourist attendance.

By example: Petch the Butcher is in Great Ayton, his Pies are celebrated, much like Kendal Mint cake, such assets within our North Yorkshire towns need to be promoted. Therefore, across Redcar & Cleveland we need to create Local heroes and through their publication engender a reason to visit. We must also look to find and identify any building that has been used by the rich, the famous or the intellectual across our history and endeavor to bench mark its presence on the tourist trail. E.g. 30 years ago Terry English a former Redcar lad decided that one Christmas Eve he would walk within London from a building that within the Dickens novel Christmas Carol is Scrooge's office, to Bob Crotchets house. Amongst his friends and peers this has now become a celebrated must do Christmas walk.

One could well imagine that within our community we may find many such opportunities to create a mission objective to a ride or a walk. Indeed, it could be something simple like creating art or woodcarvings along the Old Guisborough Railway cycle track much as they have in Errington Woods New Marske, or within Saltburn valley Gardens.

The Redcar Rangers website is to publish the walks and rides across Redcar & Cleveland and is to endeavor to publish such cultural information to enhance an attendance objective at www.redcarrangers.co.uk If the public could email me their stories and information on our local history for the website? mailto:sustrans@redcarrangers.co.uk

We must also look in earnest to enhance the billet and camping sites for those walking the Cleveland Way into Saltburn and in riding the National Cycle Network No1 which passes through our Borough and runs from Dover to John O’ Groats. This camping proposal will also enhance access objectives for Guisborough to energise people to cycle and walk into the Parish and to use the Guisborough Forrest MTB trails.