Health Walks in the Goring Gap

 Goring-on-Thames,
South Oxfordshire, UK

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This page contains all the information leaders need to run their group or
lead a walk and ensures that we are all using the same, up to date, information.
It was last updated on 12 May 2008

If you notice a change to a route that affects the risk assessment,
please mail in an update

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1.    Forms

2.    Leaders Contact Details

3.    Medical Notes - Basic information about walkers who answered
 'yes' on their ParQ

4.    Risk Assessments and maps - Safety information about, and maps of, all our routes

5.    Insurance - What is and what is not covered

6.    Training - Who's waiting to be trained? Latest WHI Training
Manual (download)

7.    Leaders meetings including minutes of past meetings and statistics

8.    SODC Steering Group including minutes of past meetings

1.    Forms  - specifically for GGHW. Please destroy any old forms you may have - use them for scrap

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Outdoor Health Questionnaire form,  updated April 2008
MS Word (570Kb)  or PDF (99kb)

Please make sure that any new walker fills in ALL the questions and understands that they MUST let us know if any of the information changes, that the information will only be kept for GGHW records and will not be shared with any other organisation.  Please try and get all the walkers who have not registered to do so immediately.

Risk Assessment Blank

Walk Register

Accident Form This is for major incidents only. Cut fingers etc do not require a form. A completed from must be returned to Bernard within 7 days of the accident.

2.    Leaders Contact Numbers

Please mail in your mobile number and any corrections to your details

View Leaders contact details (password protected)

3.    Medical Notes

Information is available to ensure that Leaders are aware of any potential problems Please make sure that you look at this list regularly.

The key follows the OHQ questions

1.    Has your doctor ever said you have a heart condition?
2.    Do you feel pain in you chest when you do physical activity?
3.    In the past month have you had a pain in your chest when NOT doing physical activity? 
4.    Do you lose your balance because of dizziness or do you ever lose consciousness?
5.    Do you have a bone or joint problem that could be made worse by a change in your physical activity?
6.    Do you have diabetes?
7.    Do you have asthma?
8.    Any other condition not mentioned above

View the list of Member's Medical Conditions (password protected)

4.    Risk Assessments and Maps

All routes are posted below. Leaders are expected to report any changes to risk on any route so that the assessments are always up to date. Failure to do so could affect our insurance.

Please read the Generic Risk Assessment and be aware of the content

Please note that all risk assessments that cover the viewpoint at the top of The Coomb woods, or the track across the Holies to the main road atop Streatley Hill now forbid the use of the steep stepped paths that descend from the viewpoint to the Youth Hostel, or from the gate in the dip to the top of The Coombe. If a walker decides to take a short cut down either path and leave the main group, they MUST be informed that they are no longer covered by our insurance. Similarly, any leader that leads a walk down these routes will not be covered

If you walk a route that is not included below, please submit a full Risk Assessment form for the new route. You can view, or download a current assessment for the routes underlined. The remainder are in the process of being updated
Initials shown denote the leader responsible for the initial assessment

Under the Ordnance Survey License, leaders may download, print and use the maps solely to aid them in leading a Health Walk.

A/B routes:

  1. Great Chalk Wood/Gatehampton/Manor Road - A/B level - VA

  2. The Holies (Tarmac Road)/Lardon Chase - A/B level - JA

  3. Golf Course/Lardon Chase - A/B level - JA

  4. Golf Course/Holies/Coombe - A/B level - JA

  5. Lough Down/Holies/Coombe - A/B level - BN

  6. River Towpath/BBOWT/Manor Road - A/B level - VA

  7. Elvendon Priory/Wroxhills/Icknield Road - A/B level - BN

  8. IcknieldRoad/Grove/Bridleway (Ridgeway Path) - A/B level - AL

  9. Bridleway (Ridgeway Path)/Fruit Farm/Hildred's field/Icknield Road - A/B level - AL

  10. The Coombe/Holies/Lardon Chase - A/B level - BN

  11. The Coombe/Holies (Tarmac Road) - A/B level - BN

  12. Sheepcot/Great Chalk Wood/Elvendon Priory - A/B level - BN

  13. Gatehampton Road/Bridleway/Gatehampton Farm/Manor Road - A/B level - NW

  14. Gatehampton 6 stile walk - A/B level - VA

  15. Farm Close/Burial Ground/Cow Hill - A/B level - JB

  16. Icknield Road/Wroxhills/Elvendon Road/Cow Hill - A/B level - BN

  17. Bridleway to South Stoke & return - B/C level - ML

  18. Elvendon/Battle Farm/Wroxhills/Icknield Road - B/C level - AW

  19. Sheepcot/Burial Ground/Cow Hill/Fairfield Road - B/C level - VA

  20. Ash Copse vial Lough Down/Stitchens Green/The Holies - A/B level - HA

  21. Cleeve Road/Elvendon Road/Lockstile Way - B/C level - ML

  22. The Bell walk - A/B level -  A (short route) B (long route) - BN

  23. The Bluebell walk - via Ridgeway - A/B/C level - BN

  24. Lardon Chase/Lewingdon Wood/Holies - A level - HA

  25. High St/Farm Close/Cow Hill/Battle/Elvendon Road/Wroxhills/Icknield Rd - A/B level - BN

  26. Ash Copse (Via Coomb/Stitchens Green/Holies - A level - HA

  27. Elvendon Priory/Stapnall's Farm/Great Chalk Wood/Upper Gatehampton Farm - A level - HA

  28. Elvendon Priory/Crays Pond/Bottom Farm/Great Chalk Wood - A level - HA

  29. Great Chalk Wood/Cold Harbour/Gatehampton Road - A level - HA

  30. Common Wood via The Holies and Lardon Chase - Bluebell Walk - A/B level - HA

  31. River/Moulsford/Well Barn/Ridgeway/Rectory Road - A/B level - BN

5.    Insurance

Letter from Natural England - 11th May 2007

Word format - pdf format

WHI Insurance Definition
The WHI public liability insurance policy covers:

"Walk Leaders - indemnity for injury or damage to other people and other people's property while acting as a walk leader, this includes injury to walkers.

Walkers - indemnity for injury to other walkers and other people, and damage to other people's property while on an organised walk."

6.    Training

Volunteer Walk Leaders

Volunteers awaiting training:

Next training session tba

The new WHI Training manual is available via the link below. It is pw protected <trainman>

WHI Training Manual 2008 - pdf

Take a look at the latest WHI Trainers Newsletter on line, from where you can download your copy if you like

First Aid

Next venue & date tba

Awaiting Training:
Margaret

7.    Leaders Meetings

All meetings will be held half yearly on the 2nd Thursday commencing at 19:30 unless otherwise advised

2008
14th February    Agenda
                            GGN Article
                            OHQ form
                            OHQ Guidance
14th August

2007
8th February - Notes - word format - pdf format - 1st quarter totals
10th May - Notes - word format - pdf format

End of year figures
End of year league table

2006

End of year figures
End of year league table

8.    SODC Steering Group

Minutes 10th July 2006 - pdf format
Minutes 11th September 2006 - pdf format
Minutes 20th November 2006 - pdf format
Minutes 5th February 2007 - pdf format
Minutes 14th May 2007 - pdf format
Minutes 13th August - pdf format

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