WHERE WALKERS ARE WELCOME:
2008 conference in Prestatyn
Bookings are now open for our annual conference, which this year will take in the north Wales town of Prestatyn.
The conference takes place on Sunday October 26th, and there will be informal events on the preceding Saturday as well for early arrivals.
The conference programme offers a range of presentations and workshops, designed both for existing Walkers are Welcome town and towns and villages on their way to earning WaW status. We are expecting considerable interest this year in the event, so you may want to book in in good time. The booking form and details are here.
Prestatyn offers a choice of accommodation - details here.
2007 conference in Hebden Bridge
The first Walkers are Welcome conference, held in Hebden Bridge on October 21st 2007, was a lively and stimulating event. Among other decisions, delegates present agreed to create the Walkers are Welcome Towns Network and the first committee for the Network was elected. Prestatyn offered to host the second WaW conference, to be held in the autumn of 2008.
Thirteen Walkers are Welcome towns or potential WaW towns were present at the inaugural conference held in Hebden Bridge
The programme for the 2007 conference was as follows. PowerPoint presentations are available for some of the presentations - be warned, however that these can be very large files.
9.30am: Conference opens
- Welcome to Hebden Bridge: Britain's first WaW town
- Andrew Bibby: the Walkers are Welcome concept
- Pam Warhurst (Board member, Natural England) Using WaW to support and renew rural communities
10.15am: How we did it
11.15am: Coffee break
11.30am: Running a walking festival
- Colin Speakman (journalist, former member Yorks Dales Nat Park Authority) Running the South Pennines Heritage Festival
12.15pm: Workshops: Marketing your town for walkers
12.45pm: Workshops report back
1pm: Lunch
1.45pm: How the Fairtrade Town concept was developed (1.3 Mb)
- Bruce Crowther (Fairtrade coordinator, Fairtrade Foundation). Bruce, an Oxfam campaigner for over twenty years, was the originator of the Fairtrade Town idea.
2.30 pm: Reports from participating towns
3.00 pm: Making the most of Walkers are welcome status. Workshop
3.30pm: Report backs and final session - a UK structure for WaW
4pm: Close
Note: the original leaflet for the conference is still available here.
Conference delegates take part in one of the workshop sessions
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