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Our general secretary, Kate Ashbrook, has been shortlisted for The Great Outdoors magazine’s Personality of the Year award. She has been nominated as ‘a knowledgeable and fearless campaigner for our rights in the great outdoors’.
Kate has been in post for 31 years. She is also president of the Ramblers, a trustee of the Campaign for National Parks and the Dartmoor Preservation Association, and patron of the Walkers Are Welcome Towns Network.
She has campaigned for commons, greens, open spaces and paths for most of her life.
We are pleased that the Ramblers’ Big Pathwatch has been nominated for the Campaign and Campaigner of the Year award.
You can vote online here.
Kate reopens Framfield footpath 9 (the ‘Hoogstraten path’) in East Sussex in 2003 after successfully taking East Sussex County Council to court for failure to act.