RuberyBlue

All Geocoins now sold :-) RB UPDATE: #MVGEO South Wales Golfing Geocoin #The World is Our Playing Field Micro Geocoin #Super Cacher Geocoin #Piranha Geocoin Geoswag C&P Club June 2008 - Paper Geocoin Shropshire Way 2008 Geocoin Lizardtoadz Geocoin SOLD Best of British 2007 Geocoin SOLD Help for Heroes Geocoin SOLD *Robert Burns 2009 Geocoin *Flower of Scotland Geocoin *David Douglas Geocoin *Scottish Folklore and Legends Geocoin 2009 South Wales Geocachers Geocoin Appalachian Trail Final (Bronze) Appalachian Trail Final (Silver) *Big Tree Country – Birnam Oak Geocoin *Big Tree Country – Birnam Oak Limited Edition Brecon Beacons National Pk. Geo SOLD *Miner's Protector Lamp Geocoin (Lit) *Miner's Protector Lamp Geocoin (Unlit)

UPDATE: #MVGEO South Wales Golfing Geocoin #The World is Our Playing Field Micro Geocoin #Super Cacher Geocoin #Piranha Geocoin Geoswag C&P Club June 2008 - Paper Geocoin Shropshire Way 2008 Geocoin Lizardtoadz Geocoin SOLD Best of British 2007 Geocoin SOLD Help for Heroes Geocoin SOLD *Robert Burns 2009 Geocoin *Flower of Scotland Geocoin *David Douglas Geocoin *Scottish Folklore and Legends Geocoin 2009 South Wales Geocachers Geocoin Appalachian Trail Final (Bronze) Appalachian Trail Final (Silver) *Big Tree Country – Birnam Oak Geocoin *Big Tree Country – Birnam Oak Limited Edition Brecon Beacons National Pk. Geo SOLD *Miner's Protector Lamp Geocoin (Lit) *Miner's Protector Lamp Geocoin (Unlit)

I am selling my personal collection of Geocoins to raise money for Anthony Nolan. They are all registered against my geocaching account so will need to be adopted by buyers. #MVGEO South Wales Golfing Geocoin #The World is Our Playing Field Micro Geocoin #Super Cacher Geocoin #Piranha Geocoin Geoswag C&P Club June 2008 - Paper Geocoin Shropshire Way 2008 Geocoin Lizardtoadz Geocoin Best of British 2007 Geocoin Help for Heroes Geocoin *Robert Burns 2009 Geocoin *Flower of Scotland Geocoin *David Douglas Geocoin *Scottish Folklore and Legends Geocoin 2009 South Wales Geocachers Geocoin Appalachian Trail Final (Bronze) Appalachian Trail Final (Silver) *Big Tree Country – Birnam Oak Geocoin *Big Tree Country – Birnam Oak Limited Edition Brecon Beacons National Pk. Geo *Miner's Protector Lamp Geocoin (Lit) *Miner's Protector Lamp Geocoin (Unlit) Those * are limited issues to fund raise for GB Mega events so I imagine will now be fairly difficult to come by. For coins marked with an * i'm looking for £7 (inc. P&P) For coins marked with an # i'm looking for £3 (inc. P&P) All other coins £5 (inc. P&P) Regards RB

All Geocoins now sold. RB

I have the following Geocoins for sale, all unregistered. Lizardtoadz Geocoin 1 Dragon Spinner Geocoin 1 Help for Heroes Geocoin 1 Flower of Scotland Geocoin 1 David Douglas Geocoin 1 Scottish Folklore and Legends Geocoin 1 Geocaching Association of Great Britain Geocoins x 2 Nice starter set- £3 each plus postage Contact me at ruberyblue@googlemail.com KRO!

Hi All Sarah Farmer, weather presenter at BBC South Today based in Southampton, has contacted the GAGB. She is researching a possible feature on Geocaching and is looking for people to talk to about the growth of the activity and its popularity in the South. As well as the real enthusiasts, her aim is to find unusual case studies, i.e. the oldest/youngest Geocachers, or perhaps someone who may have been to the most caches etc. BBC South today covers Southern England including Dorset, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Sussex, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. If you are interested in participating her contact details are: Sarah.Farmer@bbc.co.uk RB

Wiltshire (Swindon) The Woodland Trust has, like a lot of organisations in the current climate, gone through a lot of re-organisation resulting in the loss of Woodland Managers and the remaining picking up a lot more sites. The delays are probably a result of this, they are generally very amenable. RB

Hi Rose & Thistle, The GAGB forums are a very open and welcoming community, please feel free to add any updates you feel are appropriate. Alternatively drop an email to gagbcommittee@gagb.co.uk, we can consider any news you have to offer for future newsletters and the website. You may also want to consider the UK Geocaching Podcast. Regards RB Committee Member

I have taken up the self appointed role of making sure UK CITO has its profile raised, with a view to bigger and better in 2011..... 2010 has seen 15 ‘CITO’ events held across the UK by the Geocaching community resulting in: 545 – Participants involved in litter collections 595 – Bags of litter collected 30m² – Himalayan Balsam cleared Plus numerous bulky items (tyres, bikes etc.) removed.......Congratulations to all of the event organisers. I will be looking to raise the profile of the CITO next year and with your help surpass this years excellent figures. If you are yet to attend an event the first of the year is currently 15th January (check out the GAGB calendar regularly). If you have a hankering to organise an event - Do It! - I have a list of contacts who I am sure will be able to help you with advice. Don't forget you can CITO every time you are out caching. RB

Try this: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/ Recommended to me on the GAGB by Bear and Ragged. Just downloaded a great Arizona TOPO for my hols. Regards RB

My understanding is that this particular NT site currently has no geocaching offering and will be starting from scratch. Based on this I can only give you my experiences of the Clent Hills (NT). Clent Hills have five (5) themed caches that they use to run geocaching 'taster' sessions last Sunday in the month – this involves pre-booked groups (Scouts, Brownies etc) loaning an NT GPS (deposit paid) and, after a Geocaching briefing, setting out for an afternoon of caching (unsupported). My volunteer role does not involve me in this. The five caches each have a theme, with educational cards and activities, which the groups partake in. Clent has the themes: Soil erosion Grasses Clouds Bugs Trees Each cache has a bag with National Trust contents to carry out these activities (Information cards, crayons, sketchbook, magnifying glass, tape measure etc), these are clearly marked as not swappable – although they do go missing! My current role – to maintain the caches; ensure they have the relevant NT contents prior to the Sunday 'taster' sessions and to manage them as my own under an NT Geocache account. Apart from my time, there is no other outlay from me; this can be as little as one hour per month. There are obviously lessons learned from this: • I was not involved in the original cache set up. This meant they were easy finds for the 'taster' groups but very vulnerable to muggling. • The 'taster' groups are encouraged to bring swaps, due to a lack of experience; this has meant geocoins/ travel bugs going missing! • The NT activity tools were included in the general cache contents and regularly went missing. Plans are to develop the NT offering further with caches of a more challenging nature for team building. I hope this gives you some insight into the role, let me know if you would like some contact details. Regards RB

Hi All, I currently donate around 4 hours per month working as a geocaching volunteer for a National Trust property in North Worcestershire. I have been approached with a view to getting expressions of interest from cachers local(ish) to Woodchester Park, Nr Stroud, Gloucestershire (Link) who would be willing to volunteer some time to work along similar lines as myself. If your interested drop me a PM and I'll start the ball rolling. RuberyBlue KRO!

Its good to see such a positive response from members of the geocaching community, its times like these that you realise what a well balanced bunch we are! Jacaru - I'm fully supportive in what ever actions you see fit to take, all the best! RB

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Hi, I'm based in Birmingham and work in Coventry. PM me a few more details and I will collect it some time this week whilst commuting. Regards RuberyBlue KRO!

Pencil me in (+1 other). Been mulling this for a while without doing anything about it, its my last chance. RB KRO!

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Apologies for not including the Scottish Events, more of an assumption that my Events email showed all UK activities rather than 1/2 arsed! I'll make sure I generate a PQ next time! RB KRO!

It does; sorry, missed it as I flicked through. Here are the others: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d1-0678bc745edb - Britain's Fourth Most Remote Event Cache (Jersey) Sunday, June 13 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...65-c2711ed2d761 - In The Unlikely Event... (Les Minquiers) Sunday, June 20 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d2-7b77c38b142c - The Hunting of the Sark! Friday, June 25 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4d-c147b63e4686 - Herm is where the heart is! Saturday, June 26 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...9b-52ee0037e5be - Guernsey Gathering. Sunday, June 27 Thanks again All added, beginning to wish I was going to the Channel Islands this year! RB KRO!

Anyway, having hacked the Groundspeak servers I then proceeded to open up my regular weekly notifications email and spent over an hour manually clicking on each event link, copying the details into the GAGB calendar and saving. What we have is a calendar view of the events so far arranged across the UK, Ireland and various offshore tax havens (Simply ) As I believe the vast majority of cachers get this email every week I am simply transferring it into a more visually useful format. Ideally I'd like to see all events logged in here by the organisers but I'm more than happy to keep this updated as a useful resource. Incidentally, I think iCache is a valuable site and had no idea things would escalate into some petty 'rattles out the pram' sulk. Keep caching! RB KRO!

Hi Simply, I believe your Alderney event is on there if my memories serves right Regards RB KRO!

Check out the GAGB web site calendar for upcoming events. There are a number in South East England. Regards RB KRO!

Hi All, Just for information: I am trying to maintain a calendar of all forthcoming events across the UK & Ireland in the GAGB forums. GAGB - So if you have day trips or holidays planned take a look and see if there's an event you could take in. - If your planning an event please feel free to check out any clashes and add your event details to the calendar. Regards RB KRO!