by Helen Johnstone | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorised |
It’s not easy to build new active travel paths. Route choice, designs, plans, landowners, barriers (bridges, rivers, roads, canals), the need for ecological, topographical and physical surveys, public consultations, opposition and discussion from the myriad of...
by Helen Johnstone | Apr 11, 2023 | Uncategorised |
Our AGM is when we elect or re-elect our trustees, and when we present our financial accounts to our members. We also like to use it as a way to tell you what we’ve been doing, and what’s coming up next, and answer any questions you may have. And while we...
by Helen Johnstone | Jan 6, 2023 | Uncategorised |
The popular fundraising ceilidh (pronounced ‘kay-lee’) is back and tickets are on sale now at the Cheese and Grain in Frome. The Frome Fling Ceilidh starts at 7pm on Friday 27th January 2023, with dinner available from Mahesh and Azeema. Tickets are £15...
by Will de Bolla | Oct 23, 2022 | Ecology Group |
From the report to FML Trustees, 20th Sept 2022, by Andrew Marchant Since 2016, Frome’s Missing Links’ Ecology Group has been monitoring and improving the ecology of the area alongside the existing path. One of their first projects was to survey reptiles...
by Will de Bolla | Oct 22, 2021 | Blog, Routes |
Frome’s Missing Links volunteers and supporters are celebrating another small milestone towards the completion of a traffic free route between the town and the end of the Colliers Way path at Great Elm. Anyone who has ridden or walked along the lovely riverside path...
by Will de Bolla | Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorised |
A Critical Mass is a high profile regular ride around an urban route (for more details, please visit this page), and is coming to Frome. Where: Top of Park Road next to Avanti Park school entrance When: last Friday of the month (July 30th, August...
by Will de Bolla | Mar 19, 2021 | Uncategorised |
Soon it will be possible to walk, run, scoot or ride from the centre of Frome to the end of Whatcombe Fields near Spring Gardens – without the need for wellies! The existing tarmacked multi-user path from Welshmill stops by the river, leaving people to continue...
by Will de Bolla | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog |
It’s been a while since we have put out an update – but hopefully you will see that the trustees have been busy behind the scenes both locally and across the region. This is an important moment for those of us who want to see safer active travel routes and there is...
by Will de Bolla | Sep 19, 2020 | Ecology Group |
Now that late summer has arrived the most colourful sight on the Collier’s Way at Great Elm are ripening berries/fruits. The first three pictures show the berries of the Black Bindweed and Guelder Rose (behind which are young hawthorn trees with a mass of red...
by Will de Bolla | Aug 27, 2020 | Ecology Group |
The summer flowers are fading fast at Great Elm as autumn approaches. However, a number of flowers remain amongst the long grass including Thistles, Field Scabious, St John’s Wort, Crane Bill etc. In studying the wildflowers at Great Elm, it is not always easy...