Tales from a Slow Way: opportunities for creative storytellers (paid)

Are you a creative or a group? Do you have a community story you’d like to bring to life and share with the world? We’d love to support you!

Walking for River: a journey from Ipswich to Bristol

Three years on from the premature birth of her grandson River, Annie walks the route of his air ambulance, navigating with old maps from charity shops

A walk with Dima

As part of Refugee Week, Saira joined Dima Aktaa, an amputee, runner and aspiring interior designer, on a Slow Ways journey from her home in Flitwick to Amthill

Join the next Slow Ways National Swarm / Ymunwch â’n Penwythnos Prysur Cenedlaethol

Up for an adventure with purpose? Join our next National Slow Ways Swarm!

Six pioneers and their shears

Slow Ways is honoured to have a bunch of supervolunteers – solo walkers who are putting enormous time and energy into reviewing routes. They meet up for a walk every so often so I joined them in the Midlands, on the overgrown Longbridge to Halesowen route

Q&A with David Sanderson, who’s now walked 500 miles of Slow Ways!

To celebrate his century of Slow Ways routes, I reached out to David with some questions. I wanted to find out what makes him tick, what he's planning next and any tips he has for people who'd like to follow in his footsteps.

Michael Tormey – How direct are the Slow Ways routes, really?

My name is Michael Tormey. I’m originally from the United States, but I’ve spent the past year studying for an MSc in Transportation Planning and Engineering at the University of Southampton. For my Masters dissertation, I’ve been looking into how and where we can focus efforts to continue improving the Slow Ways network of walking routes. Read all about my analysis here.

The Listening Walk takes to the Slow Ways

In this article we take to Slow Way Woodwool with David Matthews who is walking 6000 miles to visit every Samaritans in England, Scotland and Wales.