Thank you for your letter of 8th of May, which was addressed to our Rangemore scouts side, which we call “Verchovyna” (Highland – famous in our Carpathian mountains). The letter was passed to me at our National Annual Meeting in Derby a week ago by Mr. Danylo Wilshynsky. He lives in Manchester & is our admin officer for the Rangemore. We are members of Plast (Ukrainian Scouts & Guides Organisation). And although we don’t have many members ( appx. 100 ) we come from all over the country ( Manchester, Nottingham, Derby, Wolverhampton, London, Scotland and the Irish Republic)

We came to Britain soon after Second World War, but some of our members now are British born third generation of Ukrainians ( or Ukies as we are often referred to by others ). At first we were camping in Surrey and in the Midlands, but in 1965 we have bought the Rangemore smallholding and we have camped here ever since every year.

In the seventies we had as many as 250 campers usually two or three weeks in July/August. The rest of the year (11 months) we sub- let the field (about 8 acres) to a local farmer Mr. Bob Jones for grazing or hay making. You can phone me any time at the above phone number or better still visit the camp after 23 July and speak to the Yarema Kuczynsky ( the camp commandant ), who will invite you and your colleagues to the camp fire or some other activities and provide you with answers, which you might wish to ask him further. I enclose camp address on a separate letter heading and the phone number, which will be used during the camp.

Please do ask for Yarema himself as phone is often answered by any one, who happens to be there at the time.

I enclose couple of photographs of our past camps to illustrate some camp activities.