nature
Article
New Research for Slow Ways Finds 1 in 4 UK Adults Miss Out On Nature Because They Don’t Know Where To Go
Research conducted for us by YouGov reveals that over half (52%) of adults want to discover new walking routes this summer. With the extended summer break ahead, many are keen to explore the UK’s hidden...
Art
“To return to a place” is decolonising work in practice
Writer and founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, shares how a recent artistic 'walkshop' in Ecclesall Wood helped forge an embodied connection with nature at a mycorrhizal level resulting in a sensory woodland exhibition
Tales from a Slow Way
How does it feel to walk blind?
Gill has been blind since a car accident in her teens. Join her on a walk through West Norfolk in this beautiful film
Music
Singing the song of the Dee to the Wye
Songwriter Janie Mitchell walks from Chester to Hereford through one of the wettest months ever recorded, and records her own song for the hidden histories and ever-present water
Art
“Walk. And draw the houses!” Swiss Cottage special needs school make a sensory experience from a Slow Way
Join in on this interactive sensory journey through North London, as seen, felt and heard by young people with learning disabilities
Environment
Tales: Being Sustainably Muslim
Environmentally-minded volunteer group Sustainably Muslim walked through East London while having conversations about community, nature and Islam
poetry
Tales: They Just Keep Going
In August, writer Jess Green worked with Leicester Rape Crisis on a Creative Writing walk with a group of teenage girls along the Hilton – Derby route in South Derbyshire
Article
Park Life: a tune, a festival and a short walk to keep us refreshed
Even a short walk has me feeling reborn in a way, refreshed, a skin sloughed off, and a dawn walk even more so as a new day begins.