Forestry England to increase permissions charges – please help – Page 2 – Bike Forum

dirkpitt74 · 2024-01-24T13:42:55Z

So Forestry England are looking to increase the costs charged to external providers (Coaches, Clubs and Event Organisers), which means that as an MTB Coach I'll have to potentially put up prices or swallow the hit on profits that will go to FE. I purposely keep my prices low to make Coaching accessible to all. Also as a volunteer coach for the local club we might have to look at increasing either membership or session costs. This appears to be a wholesale change without any consultation - please read below and if you can sign & support the petition. Comments are super important too. It’s your chance to say why mountain bike coaching cannot be pushed out of the forests - or operate without permissions and subsequently not be insured...... Please keep sharing to your pages and groups. —————— IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ, SIGN AND SHARE. We don’t ask very often but we need your help. We try to keep our course fees as low as possible but still be able to pay all our business fees and actually take a full wage each month (which doesn’t happen very often, especially through winter months). Many of you may not know but to legally coach on a site coaching companies MUST have permission by the land owner which usually encures a fee either annually or quaterly. If there is no permission there is no insurance (this is usually when you see very cheap coaching courses being provided, so be aware and always ask to see the legals). Unfortunately, we now have 2 barrels aimed at our heads - this will effect ALL professional coaching companies who use FE sites. An increase to a 20% charge would simply put us out of business. You, the customer already have huge living costs and so do we too… We simply couldn’t pass this cost forward and certainly can’t absorb any more price rises. So please, take 2 seconds to sign this petition. Numbers speak volumes. We’re not asking it to be free but to be fair for us all. Please share and hopefully we can make an impact before we all loose what we have worked so hard to create. The link is below, thank you advance for standing and supporting professional coaching companies out there.

DickBarton

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I will, but I'm now concerned it was a post on here in response to something about services being cut. Which would be even worse as that wouldn't even be an article!
I'm feeling rather foolish about this as I've clearly got several things completely mixed up!

Posted : 26/01/2024 9:19 am

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burko73

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Good on you for holding your hands up.

Posted : 26/01/2024 3:04 pm

DickBarton

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It gets worse...I think I've found it, but it is a comment on the Welsh centres and it is absolutely nothing to do with FE and also doesn't say their recreational remit has been removed. I've clearly skim read it whilst doing something else and then decided myself what I thought I'd read.

Total nonsense from me, sorry...I'm going to return to posting up quick 'comic' responses for a while.

Posted : 26/01/2024 4:33 pm

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Forestry England to increase permissions charges - please help