The Angling Trust Close Members Forum

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Quote from the old forum page;

MESSAGE FROM THE ANGLING TRUST BOARD “The Angling Trust Board has decided to remove the Online Forum for the foreseeable future. We ran it for 9 months as an experiment in the hope that it would generate constructive debate amongst a wide cross-section of our membership. Unfortunately, it went the way of many other angling forums and became very aggressive. Of more than 13,000 members, only 186 registered for the forum and only a handful of those use it regularly. 70 of those members registered have never logged on and 118 have never written a post. Therefore the Forum was only used by 68 of our members. The staff and Directors made efforts to answer questions when they became aware of them, but there were so many pages of debate to trawl through that this became impractical for the busy team. We strongly encourage members to contact us in the usual ways if they have views about priority campaigns, membership issues and anything else related to their membership. The Trust has established meetings of regional forums for members in several parts of the country and is seeking volunteers to help set up new regional forums in other regions. We encourage all our members to attend these meetings, and local consultative meetings, to find out the latest news from the Trust and to have their views heard. Thank you to those of you who supported the Forum in the spirit it was set up and in particular to the long-suffering Carl Hoyle, an Angling Trust volunteer who gave up countless hours of his time to administer new member applications. We are very grateful to Carl for all his hard work.”