FROM RIGHT TO ROAM

 FROM ‘RIGHT TO ROAM’

Dear Roamers,
 

We hope you're doing well. In this newsletter we're letting you know about our most recent event on the Anglo-Scottish border, our next event, 'Landscapes of Health' later this month and our fundraising push to keep the campaign going.

Read on to hear more…

 

Borderlands

 

On the 24 September we led a group of Right to Roam supporters through England to meet supporters from Scotland at the Anglo-Scottish border. It was a powerful moment for the campaign. We were there to learn from those involved in the Land Reform Act 2003 which gave people in Scotland the Right to Roam. It was an important reminder that only 20 years ago Scotland enshrined the Right to Roam in law. At the border Andy Wightman handed over our recently published Right to Roam Bill for England, symbolically representing that we can follow Scotland's lead. And we will.

As we stood on the Scots Dyke at the border, we did the hokey cokey, one leg in England and one leg in Scotland, it highlighted the bizarre fact that just over the border in Scotland people have the Right to Roam, and in England we don't. Sceptics of the Campaign in England often tell us that Scotland is too different and it won't work for us here. We don't believe this is right. I'd encourage you to read this blog by Nick Kemp who was involved in the Land Reform Act in Scotland and spoke on the day.