NOTICES 

1) Call for volunteers for the 25^th Founders’ event on 1^st Oct 2022   this key event cannot happen without the fantastic volunteers that help each year.  Information for volunteers is available here https://bit.ly/3NvLjl5 there are lots of roles both in the different checkpoints and out on the course.  All the details are there.   Those of you who wish to volunteer please complete the form https://bit.ly/3NwmPZa and return it to Chris. 

2)  New Members Welcome to the following new associate members: David Brawn, Emma Dowling, Isaac Skirton, Simon Bullworthy,  Wendy Angus, Elena Saint-Vael,  Vanessa & Altaf Ahmed and James Nedham and Samantha Cliff.  Associate members please do share any walks you do in your local area either on the London group Facebook page or direct to me for our Out and About section of the newsletter. 

3)  CALL FOR SUMMER WALKS LEADERS  Walks Secretary Jean O’Reilly is about to start pulling together the schedule of social walks for July, August, and September  If you fancy leading a walk this summer, we aim to provide two walks per week: a short midweek walk, 7-ish miles, usually on a Wednesday evening, and a longer weekend walk of 20+ miles.  It would be great to add a few new (or returning) leaders to our current list of hard-working leaders.

Here is an outline of the process and what is required from a leader.

• To confirm a walk we need to know
• Name of walk
• Date and Start time
• Distance
• Start Location / End Location 
• Basic route details
• Your preferred contact details if you want people to let you know they are coming or to be able to contact you on the day - this can be an email address or phone number.

If you would like to limit numbers and have people register in advance for your walk, you can request this too. You can also let people know additional details, for example lunch stops, pub stops, dogs allowed.

We ask leaders to recce the walk in advance; however, this could have been done a few months earlier.

Once you have completed the walk we ask that you email the webmaster the following: A register of the walk attendees (for insurance purposes), a gpx file of the walk (if you have one) and a brief walk report. Plus any great photos so that it can all be uploaded to our website and used in a future copy of the Blather. .

If you might be interested or want more information, please contact Jean on london.walks@ldwa.org.uk.  Contacting Jean will not commit you to providing a walk. 

4)  LDWA 50^th Anniversary Weekend

To celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the LDWA we will be running two 50-themed walks over the weekend of 18th/19th June:

Saturday 18th June:  A 'sunrise to sunset' walk along the Thames Path.  Starting from North Greenwich Station at dawn, aiming to cover 50 miles by sunset.   For more information click here

Sunday 19th June: 50 London Squares.  Starting from Liverpool Street Station, this 21 mile walk will pass 50 locations with the suffix 'square' in their address. For more information click here

If you'd like a warm-up before the big weekend, we are running a walk of 50 half-miles (aka 25 miles) the weekend before:

Saturday 11th June : A Western Style of Anniversary 50 (50 half-miles / 25 mile circular from Winchester Station).   For more information click here

Forthcoming Walks  (details are also on the website)  here

Summer Afternoon & Evening Saunter Canal & Reservoirs  Wednesday 1st June 2022

Event Type

Group Walk

Region/Area

Southern England / London Local Group London

Distance 4.5 or 6.5ml.

Start Time 15:00 or 18:00 Route Both start outside main entrance to Tottenham Hale station This is a walk in two parts, you can do either or both.
Part 1 includes the Walthamstow wetlands which close at 5pm.Part 2 is a linear finishing at Stratford General Notes</strong Refreshment break at Ferry Boat Inn between 5 and 6

Contact Lonica Vanclay Tel: 07835 102864