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Bite-sized Projects

These volunteering opportunities are flexible and ideal for anyone who can't commit to a regular set time period for volunteering. With most of these projects you decide when you want to join in. Perfect for busy lifestyles!
 

Get Walking Keep Walking volunteers

Birmingham, East and South London, Manchester and Sheffield


Get Walking Keep Walking is an exciting new lottery-funded Ramblers’ Association project that helps people in big cities improve their health and well-being by walking regularly and independently from their doorsteps. The project is aimed at people from deprived urban areas who aren’t already active enough for good health.

Volunteers are essential to the success of the project and we're currently recruiting in Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and the London Boroughs of Hackney, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets for the following roles:

  • Walking Ambassadors to enthuse and support people around walking on a one-to-one basis, at led walks, workshops and events.

  • Walk Leaders to lead short walks as part of local Get Walking programmes.

  • Route Developers to research routes linking green spaces, transport interchanges and other local facilities, walking them on the ground and writing them up on route descriptions and maps.

  • Route Checkers to assess other people’s routes and descriptions by trying them out and reporting back.

    For more information see the volunteering pages on the Get Walking Keep Walking website
    http://www.ramblers.org.uk/walking/getwalking/volunteer/index.html

     

Footpath Guardians

Love walking? Protect the paths where you live by becoming a Footpath Guardian. This pack contains a step-by-step guide to reporting footpath problems and how you can ensure they are resolved. By taking part you will not only be helping to keep your local paths open, you will also help us compile the first-ever national record of local authority performance on reported path problems.

Please telephone Adrian Morris on 020 7339 8524 or email adrianm@ramblers.org.uk for a pack.

 

Forgotten Paths Project

Miles of public rights of way in England and Wales are under threat from development or closure simply because they have never been properly recorded. At least 20,000 paths are reckoned to be missing from definitive maps, but it could be many more.

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act has brought in a deadline to have all paths properly recorded by 2026 - after this date any historic paths not registered will be extinguished forever. We need to act now to save as may forgotten paths as we can!

This is a fascinating project that will appeal to anyone interested in local history, researching documents and preserving a part of our landscape for generations to come. We will provide a comprehensive guide and we have a team of volunteer consultants who can be contacted for support and guidance.

Please call 020 7339 8530 or
email rightsofway@ramblers.org.uk for a pack.