Gentlemen and Ladies, May I commend this organisation to you. Your asistance at this stage will mean that your and our rivers will get the action that they disserve from the Water Framework Directive, the most important piece of legislation to affect our rivers in the last 50 years.

From: vicky garner [mailto:vicky@taylorgarnerltd.co.uk]
Sent: 25 March 2009 14:45
To: simon@wyeuskfoundation.org
Subject: Our Rivers


The Our Rivers campaign is spearheaded by a coalition of the country’s leading ngo’s - WWF, RSPB, The Angling Trust and the Association of Rivers Trusts, although its strength will come from its roots - the local groups and individuals who know their rivers best. It is a campaign to focus attention on our country’s rivers at a time when they need it most. And we need your help.
We will be launching the Our Rivers website the week of the 20th April. The website will be the hub of the campaign, where groups and individuals can stand up for their rivers by flagging up the issues facing them and using the tools provided to take a series of timely actions to raise their profile over the coming months. We want to feed all the local knowledge that exists about this countrys rivers, the information from the grassroots, the pople who know their rivers best into the Water Framework Directive consultation process. After all, it is this information that should really be informing the decisions about the future of this countrys rivers.
Over the coming months we will be asking everyone who has made a commitment to stand up for their river via the Our Rivers website to take a series of simple, timely actions as part of the national campaign to put pressure on Ministers. What you already know about your river will lie at the core of everything you will be doing.

The first step on the website will be to 'stand up for your river'. This will be graphically represented by a pin in the map on the homepage. You'll be able to attach information and images about your river to this pin.
When we launch the site we want to do so with a good spread of pins already in the map. And this is where you come in.

We want your river and your issues on the map when we launch the site.
You don't need to give us all the information about your river now, you can give us as much or as little detail as you want but please try to answer all the questions. You can update your river file at any time once the website is live (and we would encourage you to do so; the more information the better).

For the moment we need to know:
1. Your name
2. Your email address and/or phone number
3. Whether you represent an organisation (and if so what is its name?)
4. Where you are (your postcode), so that we can locate your pin on the map.
5. The name of your river/stretch of river
6. The issues/pressures facing your river, including their source and what they are doing to the river.
7. The category/ies into which the issue/s fit: Agricultural pollution/ Low Flow problems/ Physical modifications and habitat/ Point source pollution from sewage treatment works/cso’s / Sediment/ Other
8. Any actions you think could be taken to address those issues.

If you have already made yourself familiar with the River Basin Management Plan for your region and want to make any comments, particularly in relation to whether or not the plans have correctly identified the issues on your river then please do. Otherwise you can always do this at a later date once the Our Rivers website is live - there will be guidance notes and links to make navigating the consultation documents as straightforward as possible.

It's essential that people who know their rivers best inform the decisions that are being made right now about this countrys rivers. Please take 10 minutes out to answer these questions and send them back to vicky@taylorgarnerltd.co.uk. And when we launch the site, please come back and take further action for your river.

Any questions please give me a call (numbers below)
Many thanks,
Vicky Garner
Our Rivers Campaign Co-ordinator
mob:07811 963562
tel: 020 72610686

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Rob, thanks for making everyone aware of this. I look forward to the web site going live, as it sounds like an invaluable resource. I'm very interested to see how things progress, and will be of high interest to my fellow committee members.

Thanks again for the post

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The usual is "Ladies and Gentlemen"

Try: "organization" instead?

"Assistance" maybe? Also "deserve"?

I won't go on... such illiteracy does Vicky Garner's excellent cause no good at all.

Erm - you are joking - right!?

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I have obviously upset you before - do remind me when or where.

Robert Denny

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"The sun was so delightfully warm, and the stone, which had been sitting in it for a long time, was so warm, too, that Pooh had almost decided to go on being Pooh in the middle of the stream for the rest of the morning."

www.monnow.org

Oh look - a phishing expedition for personal details.

How nice!

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When people start giving English lessons they should know that organisation and organization are both acceptable and perfectly correct.
I have been writing articles for magazines since the early 1960s; I have been responsible for an angling column in my local newspaper since June, 1967, and my grammar, syntax and spelling are usually OK; but, occasionally, I hit the wrong key, so do lots of other contributors to the FFF. Now, I think that both the spelling and the grammar seen on the FFF are appalling at times; but I have never tried to score points off those who are, shall we say, a little careless by sniping at them. I think it is time such criticism ceased. It might or might not embarrass the person on the receiving end; I know that it annoys some of those who witness it on these pages. It serves little useful purpose. B-W drop it, please. The lad was trying to be helpful, for crying out loud. TC

For those that do not want to inhabit a weird parallel universe, I make no appology for reprinting my first post:

Gentlemen and Ladies, May I commend this organisation to you. Your asistance at this stage will mean that your and our rivers will get the action that they disserve from the Water Framework Directive, the most important piece of legislation to affect our rivers in the last 50 years.

From: vicky garner [mailto:vicky@taylorgarnerltd.co.uk]
Sent: 25 March 2009 14:45
To: simon@wyeuskfoundation.org
Subject: Our Rivers


The Our Rivers campaign is spearheaded by a coalition of the country’s leading ngo’s - WWF, RSPB, The Angling Trust and the Association of Rivers Trusts, although its strength will come from its roots - the local groups and individuals who know their rivers best. It is a campaign to focus attention on our country’s rivers at a time when they need it most. And we need your help.
We will be launching the Our Rivers website the week of the 20th April. The website will be the hub of the campaign, where groups and individuals can stand up for their rivers by flagging up the issues facing them and using the tools provided to take a series of timely actions to raise their profile over the coming months. We want to feed all the local knowledge that exists about this countrys rivers, the information from the grassroots, the pople who know their rivers best into the Water Framework Directive consultation process. After all, it is this information that should really be informing the decisions about the future of this countrys rivers.
Over the coming months we will be asking everyone who has made a commitment to stand up for their river via the Our Rivers website to take a series of simple, timely actions as part of the national campaign to put pressure on Ministers. What you already know about your river will lie at the core of everything you will be doing.

The first step on the website will be to 'stand up for your river'. This will be graphically represented by a pin in the map on the homepage. You'll be able to attach information and images about your river to this pin.
When we launch the site we want to do so with a good spread of pins already in the map. And this is where you come in.

We want your river and your issues on the map when we launch the site.
You don't need to give us all the information about your river now, you can give us as much or as little detail as you want but please try to answer all the questions. You can update your river file at any time once the website is live (and we would encourage you to do so; the more information the better).

For the moment we need to know:
1. Your name
2. Your email address and/or phone number
3. Whether you represent an organisation (and if so what is its name?)
4. Where you are (your postcode), so that we can locate your pin on the map.
5. The name of your river/stretch of river
6. The issues/pressures facing your river, including their source and what they are doing to the river.
7. The category/ies into which the issue/s fit: Agricultural pollution/ Low Flow problems/ Physical modifications and habitat/ Point source pollution from sewage treatment works/cso’s / Sediment/ Other
8. Any actions you think could be taken to address those issues.

If you have already made yourself familiar with the River Basin Management Plan for your region and want to make any comments, particularly in relation to whether or not the plans have correctly identified the issues on your river then please do. Otherwise you can always do this at a later date once the Our Rivers website is live - there will be guidance notes and links to make navigating the consultation documents as straightforward as possible.

It's essential that people who know their rivers best inform the decisions that are being made right now about this countrys rivers. Please take 10 minutes out to answer these questions and send them back to vicky@taylorgarnerltd.co.uk. And when we launch the site, please come back and take further action for your river.

Any questions please give me a call (numbers below)
Many thanks,
Vicky Garner
Our Rivers Campaign Co-ordinator
mob:07811 963562
tel: 020 72610686

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"The sun was so delightfully warm, and the stone, which had been sitting in it for a long time, was so warm, too, that Pooh had almost decided to go on being Pooh in the middle of the stream for the rest of the morning."

www.monnow.org

Cranefly, I'm with you. You gave us some interesting information. That is all you needed to do. If some people had their way, we'd be getting elocution lessons as well as 'How to write proper English'. I love good writing; but I don't try to push my likes and dislikes, regarding its presentation, down other people's throats. We don't need that. Thanks for the thread. TC