The Annual Get-together in 2019 gave its blessing to the idea of themed events. This venture is being organised by a sub-group of the National Committee .

The purposes are

• to do something of value to local communities
• to give a platform to raise the profile of Walkers are Welcome, both locally and nationally
• to build cohesion between Walkers are Welcome groups
• to have fun and get a sense of well-being through doing something worthwhile

The events:

• Future Events- Watch this space for details as we firm up our ideas. 
  • Slow Ways Swarm Weekend , 25th – 27th March 2022
    • Not formally one of our National Events , but , following the inspirational talk at the AGT last year, towns/villages might like to join in this event.  Full details at https://beta.slowways.org/Page/the-swarm-how-far-can-we-walk-in-a-weekend
  • Litter Pick  Spring, 2022
    • We are suggesting that our  towns/villages  sign up to the Keep Britain Tidy campaign which is running from 25 March to 10 April this year. See https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/home  . Please let us know, by submitting an event to our event page, or otherwise,  if you do this so we can publish it on a dedicated page. 
  • Heritage Open Days,  September 2022
    • The theme for this year’s event, running from September 9th to 18th ,  is Astounding Inventions. Registration opens on March 1st .  If you don’t have a  the capacity to put on your own event, perhaps you could arrange a visit to one.  The calendar is published on June 1st.  Again, please let us know your plans.
  • Countryfile Ramble for Children in Need,  October 2022
    • At least 3 towns are planning to take part in 2022, we will give further details later in the year. 
• Past Events
  • Celebrating our heritage – Autumn 2021  All our towns and villages have something to celebrate.  
    • for England, the dates  for Heritage Open Days were 10th to 19th September and the theme was Edible England , see https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/organising/edible-england  but towns or villages were free to choose another aspect.
  • Some of our members’ events:

    Bus Walk and Vineyard Visit Wellington  September 14, 2021

    Historical Pub Crawl Kirkby Stephen September 16, 2021

    St Ives Heritage Walk Bingley September 19, 2021

    
    
    • National tree week 2020  The Tree Council’s National Tree Week ran  from 28th November to 6th December. We encouraged those of our member towns and villages, who were currently holding small group walks for the benefit of their local community, to hold a woodland walk  during National Tree Walk to  celebrate the work of The Tree Council. These walks were listed on our events page    Other activities were welcome too,  e.g. publicising  self-guided walks in woodland or just publishing a news item about a special local tree. 

      Kirkby Stephen  3rd December	Wellington  6th December	Whitchurch Hampshire
      Otley	Middleton-in-Teesdale	Bingley

 

• • The lock down lifting event 2020  as towns gradually restart their activities in line with government guidelines we  encouraged towns to publish a news item about their  first event on our news page. By the second week  of July 2020  there were 6 events there, including one committee meeting. 

    Market Weighton	Wellington	Whitchurch, Shropshire
    Kirkby Stephen	Whitchurch, Hampshire	Baildon

  •  The  first event which was  to be held in March 2020 and would have been the Walkers are Welcome National Litter-Pick    Unfortunately this event had to  be cancelled due to the Coronavirus advice.