National Themed Events
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
- Celebrating our heritage – Autumn 2021 All our towns and villages have something to celebrate. This event will contain a diversity of opportunities to explore these. We now know that :
- for England, the dates for Heritage Open Days are 10th to 19th September and the theme is Edible England , see https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/organising/edible-england but, if this theme doesn’t suit a town or village they are free to choose another aspect.
- for Scotland , the event, in September , will be both online and in-person see https://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/
- for Wales See https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/whats-on/cadws-open-doors-online
- As our towns and villages won’t normally have buildings and sites they can open we are suggesting they arrange walks incorporating visits to sites that are open or send in truly local recipes.
- Celebrating our heritage – Autumn 2021 All our towns and villages have something to celebrate. This event will contain a diversity of opportunities to explore these. We now know that :
- Past Events
- 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
Middleton-in-Teesdale
Bingley
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
