What would green laning look like if you didn't use a bike? Or 4x4?

[Tim Cullis]

Earlier this year Hexham Lane, a strategically important green road in the north of England was permanently closed to vehicles by Durham County Council. The circumstances surrounding this were dubious at best and so the TRF (Trail Riders Federation) convened their legal minds and decided that we had enough clout to challenge the decision in court.

A little over 3 weeks ago the TRF launched a Save Hexham Lane Crowd Funding Campaign to raise £10,000 towards the legal costs for this case. This is breaking new ground for the club, introducing a new way of adding to the fighting fund and giving those who aren't TRF members (for whatever reason) the opportunity to support what we are trying to achieve.

The guys at Northumbria TRF are so passionate about this campaign that they even ran the lane, in full gear, just to make a point. Watch their film, reflect on what winning back this lane would mean, and donate to the cause.

There's been a great reaction and there's just a couple more days to go until the crowdfunding closes. Any excess funds will go towards other similar projects, so please consider contributing!

Win back the green lanes or lose them forever. Click to donate

[Walkabout]

Two principal questions arose during the "debate" at
TRF Forums • View active topics

1. What happens if the target is not met? Will the fund be topped up from the TRF fighting fund (the latter exists separately)? The answer came back, quickly, as "no".

2. The question then arose: So what happens to the individual donations in the event that the target amount is not raised? No answer has been posted to that question.

Not a well thought out campaign, IMO.

Last time I looked, this appeal was at 125% of the target.

[Tony LEE]

Should be a good stoush - revheads vs ramblers

[Tim Cullis]

Well as you are aware, the target has been met and I think it has been a great success, both in terms of actually raising the money, but also raising the profile of TRF and the great work they do in fighting TROs. I'm surprised nobody could answer your questions,

(2) if the target had not been met, none of the individual donations would have been collected—that's the whole point of crowdfunding and having a closing date. To quote from elsewhere, "If you don't reach the target, none of the pledges are turned into donations and the pledger isn't charged. The idea behind this is that you need to raise the amount in full for your project to go ahead."

(1) So zero money would have been raised and there would have been no question of topping up from the TRF fighting fund.

Any excess funds will go towards other similar projects, so please consider contributing!

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by Tim Cullis

I'm surprised nobody could answer your questions,

Thanks for the explanation of how crowd funding works.

As for the questions within the TRF forum they were not mine.
Rather, they were from someone who, persumably, is interested enough to join the forum - a member of the TRF even.
I saw the crowd funding post as pretty vague because it did not explain the financial aspects - it's a matter of "hand over the cash, you know you really want to".

Now that the TRF have "loads of money", it simply highlights and begs the question of what the fighting fund is for if not for this type of fighting with local councils (fighting dragons and slaying beasts in the darkest shires of Britain?).

I have to admit I am feeling pretty jaundiced following the revelations concerning Kids Company and their shenanigens.

[Lowrider1263]

Am I right in saying the solicitor that are fighting the case is a trf members and they are making the money from fighting this case in court.

[trackdayrider]

I'm not TRF member - I have never ridden green lanes.. Im not even in the UK at the moment (just wanted to clarify all that) but the point of this thread is about the green lane issue not about the money or financial goings on within the TRF

isn't it ?


(Drops from the conversation!)

carry on !

[Lowrider1263]

Originally Posted by Tim Cullis

Earlier this year Hexham Lane, a strategically important green road in the north of England was permanently closed to vehicles by Durham County Council. The circumstances surrounding this were dubious at best and so the TRF (Trail Riders Federation) convened their legal minds and decided that we had enough clout to challenge the decision in court.

A little over 3 weeks ago the TRF launched a Save Hexham Lane Crowd Funding Campaign to raise £10,000 towards the legal costs for this case. This is breaking new ground for the club, introducing a new way of adding to the fighting fund and giving those who aren't TRF members (for whatever reason) the opportunity to support what we are trying to achieve.

The guys at Northumbria TRF are so passionate about this campaign that they even ran the lane, in full gear, just to make a point. Watch their film, reflect on what winning back this lane would mean, and donate to the cause.

There's been a great reaction and there's just a couple more days to go until the crowdfunding closes. Any excess funds will go towards other similar projects, so please consider contributing!

Win back the green lanes or lose them forever. Click to donate

Hi Tim thanks for the correction on my spelling I'm dyslexic it's was a night mare when I was younger, last year before tony, the charman of the northern trf is trying to get the members of the northern devision to split from the main trf, how would that help the national trf Also the leagal team you say is one person, I no him, he's a member of the Newcastle trf that no one has seen in 10 years at any meeting, I no a few of the members in Newcastle most are great guys giving there time to do what they love for free.