Take care of your trails
Take Care of Your Trails is an annual campaign, that DMBinS sarted in Scotland, to encourage and promote volunteer based trail maintenance.
Raise the STOKE! Sign up today. Entries Open for Take Care of Your Trails 2022. The Campaign will run from April 22nd – June 4th. Time to get involved and lets get Scotland winning the title of the Best MTB Community in Europe!
An initiative that we started in 2015 here in Scotland, took on a pan European slant as in 2017 we worked with IMBA Europe to organise the largest ever concerted voluntary trail repair, maintenance, and build effort.
Over a weekend in April the first-ever pan European ‘Take Care of Your Trails’ weekend took place with trail repair groups from Scotland to Poland, Denmark to Czech Republic and Sweden to Spain, engaging in a friendly competition to see which country could get the most amount of volunteers to work on paths and trails per head of population.
Centrally co-ordinated by IMBA Europe, thousands of volunteers took part and this set the precedence for the initiative moving forward.
Every year we work closely with IMBA Europe to promote the campaign to trails associations and volunteer groups across Scotland.
This year the stoke is being raised and the campaign is going bigger and better!
Tell your friends, invite your neighbours, bring your partner, children and dogs along to your local #TCoYT trail maintenance and clean-up event.
The 2022 campaign will officially start on the 22nd of April (Earth day- “preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods”) and finish off with a bang at our 10th-anniversary Summit in Val di Sole on June 4th.
RAISE THE STOKE- PROTECT AND PRESERVE
As the heading suggests, in 2022 we are raising the stoke by going bigger and better with our goals and ambitions. Over the years, what was initially a friendly competition, has grown into a community movement of passionate and dedicated trail crews contributing countless volunteer hours to preserve their local trails and natural environment.
The objectives of the TCoYT campaign since its inception in 2017- the brainchild of Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland- has been to promote trail stewardship, improve the image of our sport, recognise the work of many MTB volunteers, and encourage new or strengthen existing partnerships to protect the places we love to ride.
This is a campaign we can all be proud of and believe that there is a great opportunity for capacity building within our member organizations. Trail maintenance across Europe is largely on a volunteer basis which means without the volunteers and trail associations, we would not have the trail networks we have today. TCoYT is a means to recruit new volunteers, and raise the stoke level in getting involved in such maintenance events. That’s why this year we are setting ourselves some extra goals and ambitions for the campaign outside of the typical ‘competition’ aspect.
OUR VISION AND GOALS FOR 2022
Maintain. Protect. Preserve
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AWARD CATEGORIES
Outstanding trail crews – We will be awarding the top 3 crews in Europe who manage to get the most amount of ‘boots on the ground’ during the course of the campaign. This will be measured in 3 ways. 1) number of events, 2) amount of volunteers, 3) number of hours logged.
Most Outstanding National Mountain Bike Association - award emphasizes the importance of national trail associations and their created impact on their communities and trail networks.
Protect and preserve award - is awarded based on the best community-led conservation idea/proposal from a trail crew or association.
Trail advocate of the year award - rewards the individual who goes above and beyond for their local trails and association. This award is given to an individual who has distinguished themselves in hours and service to trail maintenance during the past year.
To sign up for this year’s campaign, head over to the ‘Take action’ page
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Make a DonationTake Care of Your Trails is an annual campaign, that DMBinS sarted in Scotland, to encourage and promote volunteer based trail maintenance.
This annual one-day summit brings together the growing number of trailbuilders, trails associations, community groups and landowners to discuss progress, build on good relationships and discuss how we can collectively solve any issues.
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