Your say on our focus

Thank you to everyone who responded to our survey in January, 2017! It was a biggie!

To begin sharing the results and our actions with you, here’s the ordered response to the question:

What should be the current focus of Bushwalking NSW?

1. Safety, rescue, risk management
2. Tracks and access (defined walks)
3. Conservation (natural places to walk in)
4. Public promotion of bushwalking
5. Training
6. Services to clubs

Interestingly, these options were presented in quite a different order in the survey:

1. Services to clubs
2. Public promotion of bushwalking
3. Conservation
4. Tracks and access
5. Safety, rescue, risk management
6. Training

So it was a good question to ask!

If you would like to send us your thoughts, you can still respond to our survey here.

This information will ultimately go into our strategic plan, however we have already responded with work in these areas:

• more work on our Risk Management Guidelines
• met with NPWS and members about tracks and walk promotion
• visited the historic, Kedumba Valley hut with NPWS and talked about tracks and access (one member specifically asked for huts)
• delivered an excellent minimal impact bushwalking presentation
• and more!

While we could never do everything that can be imagined, members also made the following suggestions which we could may be able to  on if we find the resources: “Collate an inventory of walks”

Also, one members suggested we “monitor insurance suitability each year” which we do with the help of Bushwalking Australia.

Our Community Liaison Officer, Alexandra Davidson has been working tirelessly to analyse your results so we will be continuing to bring you more details of the results.

Kirsten Mayer