One Mile Walks is a new national programme which will be launched later in 2024, all about going outdoors, getting moving and enjoying walking. As a collaborative programme there is much to be done and lots of ways for organisations and individuals to contribute to developing and promoting great One Mile Walks.
Get involved
One Mile Walks is in its early stages, so we would love you to play a role in shaping the programme. One Mile Walks will be an exciting focus for working together and for collaboratively progressing access.
We would love to work with you, we need:
Partner Organisations
Outdoor and walking organisations; land managers; conservation, cultural and heritage organisations; Protected Landscapes; walking trails and walking hotspots. To get involved you can:
- Share your one-mile walks – just send them to matt@walkingpace.uk in whatever form they are in so that we can add them to the One Mile Walks site before the launch,
- Add One Mile Walks to your existing activities – add a One Mile Walk to your festivals, suite of walks or programme of guided walks, etc. We can send you One Mile Walks stickers to put on your materials so we can build campaign recognition.
- Contribute to innovations in accessibility – share your thoughts, test innovations on your users and contribute to evaluations.
- Promote One Mile Walks through your existing communications – share your one-mile walks and the wider One Mile Walks campaign, write an article about One Mile Walks or we can write one and send it to you. The soft launch will be later this year so that we can gear up to go bigger in 2025.
- Join the Steering Group – we are looking for wide representation on the campaign steering group, let us know if you are interested – provisional kick off date for a Zoom call 15th October 2024, email matt@walkingpace.uk to join.

Multipliers
Those with access to potential walkers and people who would benefit from additional movement, such as volunteer organisations; NHS Trusts; GP surgeries; physiotherapists; pharmacies; social prescribers; schools; nurseries; and outdoor and other retailers. To get involved you can:
- Signpost your service users to One Mile Walks,
- Promote One Mile Walks in your locations and alongside your activities,
- Work with One Mile Walks to develop approaches to meet the specific needs of your service users – if you work with a group with specific needs and barriers to walking then we would love to work with you to explore how these might be overcome.
Individuals
Walkers, walk leaders, walking and outdoor writers, outdoor, outdoor activity, community, voluntary and health workforces. To get involved you can:
- Promote One Mile Walks within your organisations and with colleagues, friends and family.
- Share your lived experience of walking and access and help us to shape the walks and the information provided.
- Send us your one-mile walks so that we can add them to the list and grow the walks across the UK.
- Volunteer to check walks and verify accessibility information.
See more One Mile Walks articles
Example Walk – Jeffrey’s Wood
This lovely walk crosses a meadow, heads through woodland and follows a pretty ghyll to a steep climb out of the valley. There’s a corner shop for a quick drink or snack after the hill, then a stroll alongside the road back to the car park or bus stop.
This walk is part of a series of eight walks developed for the East Sussex town of Crowborough. With a population of about 22,000 the town has many well looked after parks, country parks and open spaces and this booklet makes great use of them. Being so close to the beautiful Ashdown Forest it would be easy to overlook the walking available in the heart of the town, but there is so much to enjoy near to where the majority of the local population lives.
The booklet will be released shorty has been produced for four purposes, to:
- Showcase One Mile Walks so you can see the potential for this untapped walking genre,
- Test the practicality of the One Mile Walk concept – I have learnt so much about setting one-mile routes, mapping and accessibility through this exercise,
- Evaluate how the One Mile Walk concept can be effectively used in a localised setting – what are the benefits, pitfalls and opportunities, and
- Gather feedback from the wider walking, outdoor, health and wellbeing sectors at the earliest possible stage, so please get in touch to get your copy.


One Mile Walks will be better with collaboration. Get in touch to share your thoughts and get involved: matt@walkingpace.uk