NWR Walk
What is the NWR Walk?
An annual event for members to encourage connection – from a small group of members to larger multi-group gatherings! In 2026, we are walking during May to coincide with National Walking Month.
You choose the route and the distance. Many walks end with a visit to a pub or tea room! All are welcome to join, including non-members.
Please share your adventures with a nice photo or two, either in our member only Facebook groups or with the office, ensuring you have permission from those in the images. We will feature as many as we can in our publications.
The NWR Walk May 2026
Our theme this year is Walking for Women, which is taken from the overall Living Street’s theme for National Walking Month 2026.
We are encouraging everyone to #WalkOutNWR and to get outside as much as possible this May.
Living Streets have said “The call for women to ‘walk out’ for National Walking Month is in recognition of women being more likely to make multi-purpose journeys, such as combining school drop-offs, care responsibilities and errands within a single trip.
Living Streets wants women to go for a walk for themselves – and their own enjoyment!”
To find out more information about Living Street’s campaign click here
Research shows that walking can reduce a woman’s chance of getting breast cancer, strengthen the muscles of the pelvic floor, and help women recover after having a baby or experiencing a long illness.
It’s not just good for physical health – people who walk regularly report being happier and less anxious, and have a stronger sense of community – and we know how important that is to us all!
We have included some walking routes around the UK below, and if you upload any photos to your social media please do tag us with #WalkOutNWR so we can see you all in action!
If you don’t use Facebook or other social media accounts, you can still send us your photos and/or upload them to your group pages on the NWR website, as we’d love to see everyone who takes part.
If you take part please let us know via our google form below.
This March, the King Charles III English Coast Path was launched, and is there to inspire everyone to connect with the outdoors, improve mental and physical and mental wellbeing in nature, and appreciate England’s beautiful coastline.
When completed, It will span the entirety of the UK, around 2,700 miles long.
If you would like to encorporate this in to your walk this May, please find more information below about paths and trails near you.
King Charles III English Coast Path Information
Other walking routes can be found by clicking on the links below:
The Rambler’s Assocation routes
Some of our previous walks!
We hope you can join this year!
The NWR Walk 2024 – Looking After Our World
The 2024 walk took place from Saturday 20 April to Friday 3 May.
We invited members to do their bit to help the environment as they walked. They had litter-picking ‘womble walks’, contributed to a survey of wildlife by reporting ancient trees or species of wildlife, or were simply aware of the impact we have on the environment – do you use refillable water bottles? Do you car share where possible?
Click on the newsletters below to find out more about where we walked in 2024…
The NWR Walk 2023 – Walk and Talk
What a fantastic two weeks of walking we had! We saw an amazing variety of walks whatever the weather, with lots of walking and talking taking place!
Click on the newsletters below to find out more about where we walked in 2023…
The NWR Walk 2022
The inaugural ‘NWR Walk’ took place in the first two weeks of October 2022. Thank you to everyone who took part and contributed to the incredible 4891 miles collectively walked, surpassing by a huge margin the original target set – the 628 mile distance between our most southerly group, Roseland in Cornwall, and our most northerly group, Bridge of Don in Northern Scotland.
What did we do?
We asked NWR members go on a walk together (it was up to them where and how far they walked) and record how many miles (or part of a mile) they walked.
The only rule – at least two NWR members must be on the walk. Non-members were welcome to join you – in fact, we encouraged it as an opportunity to spread the word about how great NWR is.
Have a look here to see more photos and details of where NWR members walked (you will need to be a member of NWR to view this page).