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Has everyone seen this weeks E-news from the BHS.
Please contact your MP and ask them to support these two important debates.

An important week in Parliament
It promises to be a momentous few days for equestrian safety in parliament next week. A debate titled ‘Horse and Rider Safety’, and introduced by MP Lee Dillon, will take place in Westminster on 14 January.

This event will precede the second reading of the Road Traffic (Horse and Rider Safety) Bill, again introduced by MP Lee Dillon, which is set to take place on 16 January. If this Bill is passed, it could help save lives and prevent horse-related incidents on our roads.

We need your support to encourage your local MP to support both events and attend the debate on 14 January. Every email, letter and message counts. To make this process as easy as possible, we have a template email available to customise and share.

It doesn’t end there. On Monday 19 January Redwings’ firework petition to reduce the maximum noise level of consumer fireworks from 120 to 90 decibels will be debated.

Together, let’s make a difference. The more MPs hear from us about these important milestones, the greater the chance that we’ll see promising change towards protecting horses, riders and drivers.
Contact your local MP

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ALL THE BEST FOR 2026.
Here’s to more bridleways!

Horse riders - your help is needed with a short survey!

I have been approached by Proffitts (a local company who specialise in nature conservation and restoration) who are involved in the Brookside Restoration at Stanhill in Hyndburn asking for horse riders to fill in the survey - link below - as they are including multi user paths in the project. The survey only takes a couple of minutes and even if you aren’t aware of the scheme it will help them with funding if plenty of surveys are returned, so please help.

The first link is Brookside’s website to give you an insight into what goes on. You may have to copy and paste into a browser.

https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proffittscic.com%2Fcommunity-projects%2Fbrookside-restoration-project%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C7aab9a7e470c44bf5b9108dde718c9d9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638920815868787510%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=O3BGNsf77o7vMrKe4ii50AgZZcBLfhxZ2gQKO63%2BlyI%3D&reserved=0

This is the link to the survey:

https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveymonkey.com%2Fr%2FBrooksideProject&data=05%7C02%7C%7C7aab9a7e470c44bf5b9108dde718c9d9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638920815868764361%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jDtiVuGCpn5uR8S2HM4jgRlMlr9r1l%2BhxpiElY%2BEToA%3D&reserved=0

Brookside Public Consultation June 2025 Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Well, after a very stressful morning when my PC decided it was the best time to crash, I finally got the bid in for this route. Now it’s a waiting game until December when they choose the best out of many worthy causes. Thanks everyone who put fingers to keyboard and wrote letters of support. Watch this space!

MARL PITS BRIDLEWAY, RAWTENSTALL. It would be an idea to put where you keep your horse if you are local or if you would box up - nice 3 hour circular from Waterfoot where there is a bit of parking.
To all the riders who have used the Marl Pits bridleway - I am completing a funding bid to restore the bridleway and make it safer and more pleasant for people to use, but I need to demonstrate that you all support my bid. If you do, can you send me a short letter of support via email to say you’d like to see some work done on the path and how you would enjoy using it if the surface was improved and the low branches cut back. Please send them to me on [email protected] (note double “ee”) this weekend. My funding application has to be in on Monday so I’m under pressure! Thanks in advance.