Walkers are Welcome in Bingley and their supporters organise many walking events in the town and surroundings throughout the year. Check this calendar of walks or the posts below for more information.
Our September Sunday Monthly Walk will be extra special as we are celebrating the Heritage Open Days! You will be able to enjoy a short one and a half miles walk along with members of Bingley Little Theatre who will be dressed in costume. Following the walk, we will return to the theatre for light refreshments, a talk and a tour of the building.
The Festival, which runs over 8 days, will offer a total of 17 guided walks ranging from 1 mile to 15 miles. In addition, there will be 5 events which do not really require any walking at all!!
Our monthly Sunday walk in October will be a very special one indeed! Join Michael on Sunday 9th October at 10.00am on Market Square (Bingley Arts Centre) for our fun fund rising Countryfile Ramble on behalf of Children in Need. Along the way we will rattle donation buckets at the cafes and passers by. We would of course appreciate a donation from yourself too.
Join our walk leader Susan, a Bingley St Ives local resident expert for a free Heritage Open Days Guided Walk on Sunday 11th September. Meet at 10.30am on lower car park.
Why not join us for a gentle stroll from Market Square along the canal to Five Rise Locks and Crossflatts then back into Bingley eventually making our way to the hidden gem that is Bingley Cemetery.
Here we will be joined by Jean Robinson who is a Commonwealth War Graves Volunteer. The war graves in Bingley Cemetery are tended by the ladies of Bingley Bloomers which is a splinter group of Bingley 5 Rise Frocks WI. Jean is herself President of Bingley WI and has researched the history of many of the graves in the cemetery and will give us an insight into the history of just a few of the war heroes.
There will be free time to look around the cemetery before we make our way along the riverside walk back into Myrtle Park passing the cenotaph before our walk ends back in Market Square at approx. 12 noon.
This long running walking festival is now in its 21st edition! This year there will be almost 50 different walks on offer. Like our own Bingley Walking Festival, it is entirely ran by volunteers and like us, Otley is part of the Walkers are Welcome town network. So with so much in common, we are very delighted to be part of the adventure this year by offering to lead a walk for the festival. And as it turns out, it’s not uncommon for the Otley Festival to offer walks outside of the town boundaries. The entire Walking Festival runs from Saturday 25th June to Sunday 3rd July 2022, we will have our walk on Saturday 2nd July
An exploration of Prince of Wales Park in Bingley. Join the RSPB Airedale & Bradford Local group for a FREE guided bird walk. Non-members welcome!
Black Girls Hike (BGH) have recently contacted us as they were looking to organise their first walk in Yorkshire with a start in Bingley. The group provides a safe space for Black women to explore the outdoors. The aim of the group is to develop services and projects to increase the participation and development of Black women in the outdoors, and opportunities to engage. It seeks to encourage Black women to reconnect with nature; the group hosts nationwide group hikes, outdoor activity days and training events.
On 1st August 2019 (Yorkshire Day), Bingley Walkers are Welcome are participating in the ‘Step Out’ sponsored walk organised by Cancer Support Yorkshire. This evening walk starting from Cottingley Community Centre is an occasion to raise money for this great charity which helps “local people with the emotional and physical effects of cancer, through counselling, complementary therapies and group work.”
