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<\/a>MBA Chairman, Simon Birch, watching Bernard and Betty cutting the cake (Photo: Richard Spencer, MBA)<\/p><\/div>
\nBernard and Betty commented:”We are both thrilled and greatly honoured to cut the cake, we can’t believe such an ocean of time has gone by since that so well remembered inaugural meeting in Dalmellington in 1965. We wondered then where the MBA would go and are so pleased that it has thrived. We hope that it goes on for ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MBA is a charity and has around 3,700 members. With the consent and support of their owners,
\nit undertakes the restoration and maintenance of old cottages, huts and similar buildings throughout
\nthe wilder parts of Scotland, England and Wales for use as open shelters for walkers and other
\noutdoor enthusiasts. Many of the buildings that are cared for by the MBA would otherwise have
\nbecome derelict.
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<\/a>Corrour Bothy<\/p><\/div>
\nThe first restoration project was at Tunskeen in the Galloway forest, undertaken by Bernard Heath and
\nhis friends. The Association now looks after almost 100 bothies. All of the restoration and
\nmaintenance work is undertaken by volunteers and is financed entirely by member subscriptions and
\nby donations. In 2014, the Association spent over \u00a344,000 on maintenance activities at 59 bothies
\nand volunteers contributed over 1152 working days.<\/p>\n
The MBA has published a book to mark the anniversary \u201cMountain Bothies- Celebrating 50 The founder of the Mountain Bothies Association, Bernard Heath and his wife Betty, also an early MBA member, led the Association\u2019s 50th year celebrations at Newtonmore on Saturday by cutting an anniversary cake. Bernard and Betty commented:”We are both thrilled and greatly honoured to cut the cake, we can’t believe such an ocean of time has gone by since that so well remembered inaugural meeting in Dalmellington in 1965. We wondered then where the MBA would go and are so pleased that it has thrived. We hope that it goes on for ever.\u201d The MBA is a charity and has…<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13894,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions\/13894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyears of the MBA\u201d obtainable for \u00a310 through the MBA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"