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We have two aims:
to promote the interests of local walkers in Wellington;
to promote Wellington to walkers elsewhere.
Wellington Walking Festival 2025
​8th to 14th September
Our 2025 festival has now finished, but we are looking forward to 2026. The dates will be confirmed shortly.​​
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Our 2025 festival featured 33 walks ranging from gentle strolls to a strenuous 13.5 mile walk, with something to suit everyone. There was a showing of The Salt Path film too.
Altogether, we think that 277 people took part, with a total of 565 attendances on events.​
We estimate that collectively we walked 2935 miles, this equates to the approximate distance from Wellington to central Uzbekistan
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All the events happened as planned. We were relatively lucky with the weather, apart from 2 of the walks on the last day. There are lots of photos on Facebook, there will be a few on our Festival 2025 Gallery in due course
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​​​The full programme can still be downloaded here. It was available in printed form in various outlets in the town, including the library, Morrisons and the Orbit
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We responded to requests for a facility to give donations by BACS. Please click here for details.
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If you took part in any of the events, it's not too late to tell us what you thought of the festival or of individual events using the feedback form at https://forms.gle/QVHQmKW3pBx8vnzb7
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Fungus Foray Results
Our experts have kindly provided this photograph and species list of the incedible number of species found in one afternoon on The Ercall
2025 Festival Feedback
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​We have analysed your feedback and taken note of the suggestions for improvement.
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​Here are some typical comments:
"As always excellent festival, thank you to all the people who contributed to this event."
"Enjoyed all the walks we took part in. Even the rain didn't stop us."
"Excellent mix of walks, always good to find new routes locally. Local history covered very well, always good to learn more. Excellent leaders set a good pace for everyone."
"A tough one but had a great day, really nice group, really helpful info as we walked, thank you"
"Could you provide one walk, perhaps at the weekend, that is around fifteen miles plus?"​
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