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A new look for Slow Ways
Celebrating our birthday with a new logo and a guiding star
Slow Ways
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7 May 2025
Making routes
Taking Slow Ways to the next level
On our fifth anniversary, here's founder and CEO Dan Raven-Ellison on why it's time to step up and connect millions more people and places
Dan Raven-Ellison
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14 April 2025
Making routes
July progress: 4000 routes rated four or five stars
How is the mission coming on? Here's a layer-by-layer guided tour through the opportunities and priorities of the network. Spoiler alert: it's going GREAT!
Dan Raven-Ellison
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25 July 2024
Making routes
The Slow Ways intercity network is close to connecting all 70 cities. Which cities would you like to link?
Britain has 70 cities, and we are *this* close to having them all connected up via the Slow Ways intercity network
Slow Ways
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10 July 2024
Making routes
Be part of the Great Slow Ways Summer Waycheck 2024!
JThe Waycheck is GO! Join us over ten glorious days of midsummer and let's see how many Slow Ways we can check together
Slow Ways
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13 June 2024
News
Volunteer with us! Become a Wayfarer
We are growing our community and launching a new way to get involved and volunteer with Slow Ways – by joining our team of Wayfarers
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15 February 2024
Make Ways
Help us to Make Ways!
Launching today – a new citizen project to map Britain’s worst and non-existent paths. Our crowdfunder needs you!
Slow Ways
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24 November 2023
News
Slow Ways: London to Birmingham in less time than HS2!
Something marvellous has happened – we've connected Birmingham to London with verified Slow Ways... and way ahead of HS2!
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16 October 2023
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