The Majura Pines Trail Alliance has been organising volunteers to build and maintain trails for a few years now. We have learnt a lot in that time and have had some reasonable success. From time to time we get asked for advice by other groups, especially those starting up. This Blog is an attempt to put some of our knowledge down on paper.
- Running Successful Trail Days
Majura Pines Trail Alliance have been organising volunteer trail days for over 10 years with excellent turn outs. Below we share some of the lessons we have learnt about what makes a successful event. Spread The Word If you don’t tell anyone about your dig day how will they know to come? Social media is … Read more - Asset Valuation of Majura Pines
Previously we calculated the annual economic benefit of the Majura Pines trails. From discussions had during that process it emerged that the value of the assets at the Majura Pines has never been calculated. The value of all the assets are assumed new, as of 2023 prices, irrespective of their age or condition. It’s easier … Read more - Economic Benefit of Mountain Biking at Majura Pines
The Majura Pines Recreation Area is a small 80 hectare forest on the outskirts of Canberra. It contains approximately 25km of mountain bike trails and a small dirt jump park. The majority of the trails are volunteer built and maintained. The exceptions are the 4 flow trails that were constructed in 2015 by a professional … Read more - Using Finite Element Analysis To Store Our Tools
We often have in excess of 30 volunteers at our trail days. Different jobs require different tools eg various rakes for cutting in new trails, shovels and mattocks for building jumps and berms and fixing drainage. This means that we have acquired over 60 hand tools. Our storage container was becoming a tangled mess; impossible … Read more - Trying Not To Lose Our Tools
Wooden handled shovels, mattocks and fire rakes are, well, stick coloured. Many of them even have green heads to further add to their camouflage. Unfortunately this means that from time to time we lose some. Of course no-one means to, but it is easy to move from one job to the next and grab a … Read more - How We Doubled Our Donations Thanks to Covid
If there is one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic taught everyone, it was how to use QR codes. By adding cheap, simple signage incorporating QR codes we more than doubled both our cash donations and volunteer sign ups. We have always had posters promoting our work on the notice boards at the entrances to the … Read more - How Majura Pines Trail Alliance Operates
The Majura Pines Trail Alliance (MPTA) is a volunteer group formed in 2014 to build and maintain the trails within the Majura Pines Recreation Area, Canberra. This page describes how we are structured legally, practically, and financially. This information may be useful to similar groups elsewhere and provides succession planning for future MPTA committees. ParkCare … Read more