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Oct 1
2 min

A surprisingly successful Walkfest

Well, we did it! We managed to put on a walking festival covering all of September with very few days without walks. That in itself was a...

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kenneth

Sep 26
2 min

Walkfest - Rain or Shine

It has been a while since I updated our Blog pages but things have been going well. I think that the first day that we’ve had some wet we...

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Walking benefits mental health and wellbeing

kenneth

Sep 10
2 min

Walking benefits mental health and wellbeing

For this edition of the blog I am pleased to have our local Walking for Health organiser as a guest contributor. Guildford Walking for He...

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kenneth

Sep 6
2 min

A Look Back at Week One

As the sun sets on the first week of this year’s Walkfest, I look back at the three events that I joined. All three were hosted by Surre...

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kenneth

Sep 1
1 min

And we're off ......

This morning we officially launched Guildford Walkfest 2020 Unlike previous launches, we had to keep the numbers small - but that didn't...

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kenneth

Aug 26
1 min

Walkfest on BBC Surrey

Well done to our Walkfest Chairman, Chris Howard, and Pete Lambert who is one of our regular walk leaders around the Guildford area. Yest...

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kenneth

Aug 22
2 min

Walkfest 2020 is nearly upon us!

In most years, we have known fairly early in the year roughly what the Walkfest programme would look like. That certainly hasn’t been the...

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kenneth

Aug 9
2 min

Walkfest IS Coming

Welcome to our new, refreshed website. For those of you who have been checking us out recently and couldn’t find much on the old site, ap...

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Ian Blyth

Aug 7
1 min

Our Wonderful Sponsors (pt1)

Of course, Walkfest would survive without our sponsors, walking is after all fun and free...however, without them we would be unable to r...

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Walkfest 2020 - The case of the moving goalposts!

Ian Blyth

Aug 6
2 min

Walkfest 2020 - The case of the moving goalposts!

Since our last blog post, the situation with Covid and the related Government guidance has evolved significantly. You will all be aware ...

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Ian Blyth

Jul 24
2 min

A whole new world of uncertainty

Farnham Walking Festival – with whom we work closely – would have been due to start about now. All the Coronavirus restrictions have obv...

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