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Campaigning for the Dales
The Yorkshire Dales Society is an independent charity which has been operating to protect, conserve and promote the Dales for 25 years. It provides a voice for people who care about the Dales to be heard at local and national level, enabling them to be represented in local consultations, planning and decision making.
What do we do?
What exactly do we do? This section details just that, and shows you some examples...
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How do we make a difference?
Read about how we are making a difference to the Yorkshire Dales, including the Ken Willson Award...
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Our President
Saturday May 10th 2008 saw Bill Mitchell unanimously elected as Yorkshire Dales Society President at the YDS AGM at the Dalesbridge Centre in Austwick.
Bill Mitchell was born in Skipton over 80 years ago and became a reporter on the Craven Herald & Pioneer in the town, meeting Harry J. Scott who founded The Yorkshire Dalesman (later The Dalesman), in April 1939...
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Paul Hudson - Vice President
BBC television weatherman, meteorologist, noted conservationist and Dales lover Paul Hudson, seen here opening the new shelter at Buckden Garth, is now a Vice President of the Yorkshire Dales Society.
Other Vice Presidents of the Society are Members of Parliament and supporters of the Society's work Ann Cryer MP for Keighley and Ilkley, David Curry, MP for Skipton and Ripon and Rt Hon William Hague MP for Richmond.
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The Ken Wilson Award 2009
 This year’s winner of the Ken Willson Award, given annually to a young person who lives or works in the Dales and has contributed in an outstanding way to some aspect of the Dales environmental heritage or to an aspect of Dales life, is Steve Marsden.
Aged 26, from Long Preston, Skipton, Steve has his own business - Marsden Agricultural and Environmental Services Ltd. He was nominated by Don Gamble, Project Officer / Hay Time Project Manager at the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust; Tom Lord, Lower Winskill Visitor Centre, Langcliffe and Honorary Member of the YDS; and Adrian Shepherd of the Yorkshire Dale National Park Authority, Grassington....
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Chairman’s Report for 2008/2009
AGM - Saturday, 09 May 2009:
This has been a successful year for your Society, though we are still dealing with the after-effects of the retirement of the founder-Secretaries Colin and Fleur Speakman and also that of the long-serving Treasurer David Smith...
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Join The Yorkshire Dales Society today
Corporate Membership
Companies who would like to see the social and economic development of the Dales are invited to join the Yorkshire Dales Society as corporate members.
Find out more >>
- A new chapter of the Yorkshire Dales Society began recently, with a move to offices in Settle Town Hall and the recruitment of a new member of staff to the administration team.
- VERY SOON !!!
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