Good Afternoon,
I’m contacting you to let you know about the upcoming Inverness Walking and Wheeling Festival www.wawfest.com hosted by Partnerships for Wellbeing www.p4w.org.uk
Partnerships for Wellbeing are an Inverness-based charity supporting health and wellness in the Highlands through our community transport service and health walk project. Together with more than thirty walking and cycling groups in Inverness we have joined forces to create a brand new festival that aims to encourage us all to make the most of the city’s growing network of paths and routes.
The Inverness festival of Walking and Wheeling kicks off a week of activities on Saturday 20th May with a fun-filled drop-in event at the WASPS Creative Academy.
- Stallholders will be offering brochures, maps and fun giveaways and there will be live music and screenings of videos showing some of the amazing locations that people can explore on foot or on wheels.
- The launch event will be opened by BBC comedy star Karen Bartke (‘Officer Karen’ in TV’s Scot Squad) who has also teamed up with local broadcaster Grace Nicoll for a series of videos entitled Those Funny Women in the Woods. In the videos both Grace and Karen go walking in Daviot Woods and try out the new Hi-Bike electric cycles on a journey from the UHI Campus to Culloden House Hotel.
- The festival is being coordinated by local charity Partnerships for Wellbeing who have been organising health walks across the Highlands since 2004. Manager Jeff Zycinski says so many new walking and cycling groups have been created in that time and the festival offers a way for them all to work together to let everyone know what an incredible city Inverness has become for those who prefer foot and pedal power for work or leisure. Among the walking groups that have captured the imagination is the ghost walk that’s organised by the Highland Paranormal Society and the Caledonian Canal walk led by Andrew Lucas from Inverness Library.
The festival runs until 28th May and concludes with a special event at Eden Court Theatre where Highland author S.G. Galbraith will be talking about the importance of walking and cycling in her creative process. The festival receives funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, Paths for All and Smarter Choices, Smarter Places.
More information on the website www.wawfest.com
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Festival co-ordinator Jayne Preece: [email protected]
Why are we contacting you? If your CC has social media or other ways or informing your local community about the Festival then please share this information as widely as you can.
We will be distributing flyers and posters over the next couple of weeks so look out for them in your area.
Kind regards
Marie
Marie Law
Partnerships for Wellbeing
07497 357198
Events Assistant – Walking & Wheeling Festival Inverness