Flow
Follow the development of our ®One Million Women Walking Community.
Flow
Follow the development of our ®One Million Women Walking Community.
This is where we will share with you the seeds of growth and the evolution of my mission…
…which is to impact the lives of one million women through walking. The development happens every day through all aspects of my work. However, this is a big mission and it needs many more people in addition to me to make it happen.
One way that this evolves daily is through the amazing Facebook group ®One Million Women Walking which was set up in November 2019. This group is for anyone who loves walking. It doesn’t matter whether they walk many miles every day or only walk in good weather or the weekend. They can be women just wanting to get started in walking and we have women who are limited in their ability to walk as well as those who take on multiple walk challenges annually. You can be anywhere in the world, and you are. You can post photos daily or not at all. Hopefully, you appreciate the holistic nature of this simple activity.
At the moment, all this happens online but there are plans to consider how we might take this group across other platforms and to take it offline too.
Perhaps members can come together for events like charity fundraising walks but also being visible as ®One Million Women Walking through wearing sashes. There will be many walks like this happening all over the world and similar events too which enable us to be visible and spread the word about walking as the power force it is.
One thing that women wanted from the group was to belong and also to meet others local to them to walk with.
Many women feel more comfortable and safer walking with others and there is also the joy that one gets when you can share wonderful scenery with someone else. I run a walking group in and around London and the South East but that limits who I can walk with and I cannot walk with everyone.
There are ideas for merchandise, especially something to identify us as members of this wonderful movement.
The relevance of this came to me first when I was aware that, on one particular weekend, about 5 groups of our women were all out walking on the South Downs. Then a few weeks later my walking group were walking along the Thames in London and were stopped by a lady who asked if we were ®One Million Women Walking? She just felt we were and it was so lovely to share a few minutes chat on the path before she had to head off. So many others might have wondered and walked on past. We want to be able to come together and share the joy and the difference we are making. As a group, we all talked about the need to recognise each other and made a decision there and then to have some large badges done that could be worn on hats, tops, jackets, rucksacks etc so that people can identify us.
You can get hold of your badges here.
The Round England Coastal Path is now complete. At present, there are many sections that can be walked but how wonderful to be able to walk it all. This is something to be celebrated and I have an image of a relay being walked in 5 – 10-mile sections with us ®One Million Women Walking members walking together, bringing friends and spreading the word. This gives me the opportunity to get ‘out on the road’ and make contact with women all over as well as leading walks and workshops, exploring new paths, holding Walk Retreats and who knows what else. This kind of thing can be replicated worldwide.
We’ll be looking for Walk Ambassadors as well as organisations and businesses to partner with as all this develops.
I hope this has given you a flavour of our plans. This page will grow and be the hub for much of this work going forward.
