Author Archives : Naomi

One step forward and two steps back

We have been able to restart most of our walks now, the exceptions are the Monday and Thursday Town Park Walks (lack of leaders) and the Tuesday Stirchley and Wednesday Madeley walks (lack of walkers). The step forward is that the committee are currently keeping the Friday Town Park walk going until permanent leaders can […]

Walk leader certificates presentation at St Georges

On 24th September before the walk in St George’s and Priorslee Lynne Kay ,  our Walking for Health Coordinator Telford &Wrekin ,presented Walk Leader Certificates to Alexis Falconer and Chas Grewal. Congratulations Alexis and Chas. After the presentation all enjoyed a lovely walk. They walk at 10.30 am every Thursday from the car park behind the cricket club […]

We are exempt from “the rule of six”

Walking for Health nationally has confirmed on September 10th, that we are exempt from the rule of six. See https://www.ramblers.org.uk/coronavirus To quote from the email received We are very happy to confirm that Ramblers Walking for Health walks can continue to organise led walks for up to 30 people, as long as they follow the guidance to restart group […]

Successful restart

Most of our walks are running again in a socially distanced way. The Town Park walks are the only ones that haven’t happened yet, but the committee have stepped in (literally) and have a temporary rota to restart the Friday walk from September 11th. Normally the restriction to 30 people is not a problem on […]

Beware

We have been sent this by our friends at Telford Senior Citizens Forum suggesting that we pass it on.“There are people in Telford offering to do shopping, taking the money but not returning with the goods. Please only trust people you know well and pay on delivery “

Latest newsletter and keeping in touch

Click here for the latest newsletter from Steve our chair, this is about self help measures and helping each other. We will send regular updates via our email list, the sign up form is here . We have also set up a WhatsApp group, if you would like to join please send a text, containing […]

Coronavirus Covid 19

Things have moved very quickly. We have now had this from Walking for Health. “Decision  From Wednesday 18th March we are suspending all Ramblers Walking for Health activities – including group walks, social activities and other meetings.  All these activities must stop until further notice and at least until the 31st May, subject to further developments.  We […]