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2025 Walks

• Saturday 8 March - Leon & Lorraine - East Sussex (JOIN HERE) 

• Sunday 13 April - Paul - walking with the Coat of Hopes from Seaxneat Wood to Ipswich

• Friday/Saturday 9/10 May

• Friday/Saturday 20/21 June - Stonehenge Solstice

• Friday/Saturday 11/12 July

• Friday/Saturday 1/2 August - Janine - Epping Forest

• Friday/Saturday 5/6 September

• Saturday 4 October

• Friday/Saturday 7/8 November

• Friday/Saturday 5/6 December

In 2021 we walked 500 miles (Camino to COP) from London to Glasow ahead of the COP 26 Conference on Climate Change. US climate envoy John Kerry described the Glasgow climate summit as ”the last best chance” to avert the worst environmental consequences for the world. We are still walking and it feels like nothing has changed. Each day of our camino in 2021 we read out this vision statement before we set off:

We are united by our faith; a faith that we can advocate and influence and be the change that we want for our world. We choose to walk (to COP26) as a practice of that faith, an act of connection with the earth on which we walk and the people with whom we walk and the communities through which we pass; and we make our way in kinship with the peoples and creatures of the earth who are suffering and displaced by climate and ecological breakdown. We do so peacefully and lawfully, ready to engage and learn, because we care and we have hope.

"When we walk, we have the emotional space to discern where the hell right and wrong land for us. Also - and I just adore this factlet - the rhythm of walking is the same as the theta brainwaves that govern intuition and our ‘gut judgement’. Theta cranks up when we walk because it is needed for spatial positioning. Once cranked the parts of our being that steer us to good, to better, to love, they all attune.  Walking is a forward motion. Love, yearning, and all the optimistic endeavours of the human experience are also forward motions. When we walk we attune to these positive forces.

I think it can also be convincingly argued that walking in nature generally makes us nicer humans. I’m certainly more pleasant after I’ve thrashed out my impatience and hypocrisies in some rocks and dirt. Sometimes I hike before a party. Seriously. So that I’m less awkward company. Dog walkers are apparently nicer than the rest of us (by virtue of being in parks, walking). I also learned that trees can lower murder rates in cities. An Illinois study looked at housing projects with lots of trees versus those without, and found much lower crime rates and aggression in the former. It’s not an outrageous leap to make - trees created an environment where neighbours spent more time outside talking to each other, thus fostering a sense of belonging, community and trust."

This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson