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Get Walking Week photo competition winners

23 May 2013

We asked you to get snapping during Get Walking Week and send us photos that summed up what you love about walking. Take a look at the winning entries!

Celebrating the life of Tony Drake MBE

Tony Drake

21 May 2013

Ramblers members and friends will be coming together to celebrate the life and achievements of the late Tony Drake MBE on Wednesday 22 May.

Get Walking Week in pictures

Get Walking Week: Brightlingsea walk

15 May 2013

See what walkers got up during Get Walking Week from 4-11 May.

MoD plans to purchase land around Cape Wrath withdrawn

Cape Wrath

15 May 2013

Ramblers Scotland along with the local community led by Durness Development Group and national NGOs, strongly opposed Ministry of Defence plans to purchase 58 acres of land around Cape Wrath lighthouse. The MoD has now withdrawn the plans.

Getting in the Get Walking Week spirit

Get Walking Week celebration walk - walking past MI6

09 May 2013

As part of Get Walking Week, Ramblers staff headed out on a celebration walk around 'Hidden Vauxhall'.

Shropshire Council Campaign

Overgrown footpath sign

09 May 2013

Shropshire Ramblers want to stop any further cuts to the footpath budget, and so have seized on the local elections as a time to influence change.

A quarter of British adults walk for no more than an hour a week

Walking for Health group in Grimsby

06 May 2013

The results of an online survey commissioned from YouGov reveal that a quarter of adults in Britain walk for an hour or less a week including everyday walking to the shops, work or school.

Minister celebrates Big Welsh Walk

Culture Minister walks Kidwelly

03 May 2013

John Griffiths AM Minister for Culture and Sport joined us for a Big Welsh Walk and Coast Path celebration day in Kidwelly yesterday.

Win a walking holiday and heaps of other prizes during Get Walking Week

HF Holidays walking group

02 May 2013

Join a Get Walking Week walk from 4-11 May and take a picture which sums up what you love about walking during it and you could win some fantastic prizes including a walking break for two!

Help build our library of walking routes

Independent walker

29 April 2013

We’re looking for walkers with an eye for detail to help quality-check our growing online collection of walking routes.

Ramblers Cymru meets Merthyr Youth

Merthyr Youth

15 April 2013

Ramblers Cymru has been working with Merthyr Youth

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