Author Archives : Naomi

Thank you to Vanessa for volunteering to restart the Monday Town Park Walk from October 5th. Meet outside meeting point house at 2 pm.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We are holding a walk leader training on October 15th. This will be via Zoom, and will be followed by a demo walk on a date to be arranged. To book a place please see our training page.

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 […]

We are pleased to be able to tell you that most of our walks will restart next week (from August 10th).The exceptions are : Stirchley which will restart the following week (Tuesday 18th) and all the Town Park Walks. (If you are using a printed programme please note that the Oakengates walk was cancelled some […]

Last week our chair issued this letter to walk leaders and walkers. If you are desperate to walk with others, it is possible for up to 6 people to walk, socially distanced. For us, limiting to 6 is impractical. Other local walking groups have restarted in a slow way, so take a look at their […]

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 “

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 […]