by OpenCountry | Apr 16, 2020 | Open Country News
There are many of us worried about getting enough exercise during the isolation period. As well as your daily outdoor exercise allowance, you may also want to give the following ten indoor stretches and exercises a whirl. Please note that not all of these may be...
by OpenCountry | Apr 3, 2020 | Open Country News
As we are all spending more time at home, we have put together some top tips to help you support the wildlife on your own doorstep; you might think of more as you start! Most of these have been tried and tested down the Open Country Allotment or by our Conservation...
by OpenCountry | Mar 26, 2020 | Open Country News
Earlier this year we were absolutely delighted to celebrate planting our 5,000th tree across the Wakefield district. Our Wakefield ‘Nature Force’ group meet every week to improve green spaces across the Wakefield community and hit this conservation milestone at the...
by OpenCountry | Mar 20, 2020 | Open Country News
It’s hard to know what to say about the world right now, but we just wanted to say that here at Open Country we’re devastated not to be able to offer our countryside activities to our brilliant members and volunteers at the moment. But this is only temporary…...
by OpenCountry | Mar 5, 2020 | Open Country News
Google ‘women in the countryside’ and you get lots of results about female farmers and historical figures who have done a lot for championing women in the great outdoors. Beatrix Potter, author and conservationist, Octavia Hill, co-founder of the National Trust, Emily...
by OpenCountry | Jan 9, 2020 | Open Country News
January is always seen as a time for cutting back and abstaining from things, eliminating a lot of the fun from our lives. While there may be a few highly motivated souls out there who manage to turn away from temptation well into the new year, the majority of us...
by OpenCountry | Dec 23, 2019 | Open Country News
2019, what a great year! With lots of good fun, laughter and cheer We set ourselves plenty of challenges to meet With adventurous outdoor activities to complete We cycled across Wales, in the wind and the rain And some of our members jumped out of a plane! We...
by OpenCountry | Nov 21, 2019 | Open Country News
It was always going to be a lively night getting together with 75 of our fabulous tandem club members and volunteers to celebrate the end of the 2019 season. We welcomed riders from all five clubs in Harrogate, Ripon, Wakefield, Wetherby and York, some new this season...
by OpenCountry | Nov 8, 2019 | Open Country News
We were delighted to be invited to write a guest blog for the Sustrans website sharing our thoughts about overcoming the barriers to cycling with a disability. Sustrans joined our Harrogate Tandem Club earlier this year to take pictures on one of our sunny rides down...
by OpenCountry | Oct 14, 2019 | Open Country News
Six of our intrepid Wild About Wakefield adventurers have taken the plunge with a 10,000ft skydive to raise money towards our services. The group, who are all blind or have a visual impairment, wanted to challenge themselves to an even more adventurous activity and...
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