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. More details later, but 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
- for Scotland , updated guidance will be issued in April 2021, see https://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/
- for Wales (currently the 2020 information only) see https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/whats-on/cadws-open-doors-online
- 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. More details later, but 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.
