Across 150 Ramblers teams, there are 2,500 Ramblers volunteers who are on the frontline of path maintenance and improvement across the country.  

Day in, day out, they give up their free time to check routes for blockages and obstacles, clear overgrowth, improve surfaces, fix or replace gates and steps, install signage and make improvements to paths for everyone’s benefit. 

But their job is getting tougher – and they need your support.  

Increased flooding and erosion caused by the climate crisis and cuts to council funding mean more paths are becoming unwalkable. It’s increasingly down to grassroots, community volunteers to tackle the problems 

Will you donate to support their vital work? 

A donation today could help us recruit the hundreds more volunteers we need and provide essential training, tools and kit. It could also help cover materials and path repair costs. 

• £20 could support a recruitment drive to get more path maintenance volunteers on the ground. 

•  £50 could fund a training course for a path maintenance volunteer. 

•  £100 could provide essential kit and basic tools for path maintenance work. 

•  £500 could pay for equipment or machinery to unblock an overgrown path. 

•  £1,000 could cover the cost of new signage, gates, bridges or boardwalks. 

Your donation will support more work like this: 

• The Vale of White Horse Ramblers Group have cleared over 8,000 metres of paths in the last year.   

• Burnley & Pendle Ramblers have recently celebrated installing their 100th accessible gate.   

• Since 2012, Southwold (Yate) Ramblers have installed 500 new gates and fixed 50 ditch crossings.   

• Last year, Walsall Ramblers Voluntary Maintenance Team committed 456 hours of unpaid work to improving paths in their community. 

A donation today will support volunteers like Andy... 

Andy Stumpf and his team of volunteers at the Pontypool Group of Ramblers Cymru have dedicated almost 1,200 hours to maintaining local paths, which includes repairing 40 stiles and 5 bridges, installing 15 new gates, 2 new bridges and almost 100 waymarkers. They have also cleared 1,625 metres of vegetation and created or repaired 20 new paths. 

A donation today will help volunteers undertake vital path repair and improvement work in their communities. Please help them keep our paths open and accessible for everyone to enjoy.