nature
Art
“Walk. And draw the houses!” Swiss Cottage special needs school make a sensory experience from a Slow Way
Join in on this interactive sensory journey through North London, as seen, felt and heard by young people with learning disabilities
Environment
Tales: Being Sustainably Muslim
Environmentally-minded volunteer group Sustainably Muslim walked through East London while having conversations about community, nature and Islam
poetry
Tales from a Slow Way: They Just Keep Going
In August, writer Jess Green worked with Leicester Rape Crisis on a Creative Writing walk with a group of teenage girls along the Hilton – Derby route in South Derbyshire
Article
Park Life: a tune, a festival and a short walk to keep us refreshed
Even a short walk has me feeling reborn in a way, refreshed, a skin sloughed off, and a dawn walk even more so as a new day begins.
Article
How citizen naturalists use Slow Ways to survey wildlife
What if people walking Slow Ways routes used these pathways as wildlife transects across the country: recording wildlife as they walk and contributing invaluable data to inform the regeneration of our country’s flora and fauna?
Blog
The beauty and the treachery of the Cairngorms
Knee-deep snow fields, frozen waterfalls and the warmth of a fire at the end of it all — Jo Bennie shares an account of traversing the invitingly hostile winter Cairngorms
In early March, a...
Nature
“Baba, what does this mean?”
Muslim Hikers team leader, the North Face Ambassador, influencer and adventurer, Zahra Rose, shares her journey growing up in a lonely fisherman's town and her lifelong curiosity for all things wild...
Review
Review of the month: Scottish wilderness from Braemar to Clova
Jo Bennie reviews Braclo one, a solo overnight route through the Cairngorms