2025 – 2026 Fundraising Campaigns

Wellness Walks launch 2025-2026 Fundraising Campaigns

The current grant and social funding environment in the UK is probably tougher than its ever been – we’ve seen a decline in both available funding opportunities and our existing partners report a massive increase in applications. Some funds are closing under the strain, many charities are ceasing to exist.

Here at Wellness Walks we’ve proved that what we do really makes a difference to peoples lives, we’ve proved we’ve the potential to make our mission of helping “as many people as possible in as many places as possible” a real, well, possibility – so we’re launching our own fundraising strategies to make it happen.
We’re asking for your support, enthusiasm & ideas…

What are we trying to do?

We don’t think there’s “one right solution” to the complexities of supporting, delivering and expanding our charitable activities – the answer will lie in a complex mix – but direct fundraising will certainly be a significant part of it!

Ever since we first had the idea for Wellness Walks one thing has held true; everyone we’ve talked to has replied with some version of the following words:

“what a brilliant idea”

We’re launching two campaigns that reflect the core charitable activities of the organisation (details below). There’ll be different ways you can support them:

Join one of our events. We’ll be hosting specific fundraising events through the year. We know not everyone likes raising sponsorship – so all of these events will have a combination of pay £xxx or raise £xxx options.
We’re asking supporters and friends of Wellness Walks to consider linking their own challenges to our campaigns – so if you’ve ever wanted to run a marathon, eat 1000 hotdogs, swim a lake – in fact nearly anything that you can think of – then why not link it to one of our campaigns?

Everybody Everywhere

Wellness Walks isn’t the core team you think you know – its nearly 100 fantastic volunteers and instructors across the UK – but it needs to be many many more.

We want to train and support more volunteers across the whole UK — people who know their own communities and want to make a difference where they live, with their peers or for their chosen community. With the right support, one person can create a ripple effect of connection and wellbeing.

When you fundraise for this campaign, you help us reach more towns, cities and rural areas — so that wherever someone is, there’s a totally free, supportive Wellness Walk waiting for them.

Train one. Support many. Walk together.

Outdoors for Everyone

The outdoors should be accessible for everyone, it should feel safe, supportive and healing.

But. For many that’s not the case.
That might be lack of opportunity, lack of understanding, lack of resources. But it could also be fear of the unknown, a lack of role models, a worry they’re not welcome.

Wellness Walks is committed to supporting and empowering under-represented and marginalised communities to be able to get out into nature in a safe and supported way. We run a range of courses and programmes aimed at giving individuals from these communities the opportunity, confidence and skills to not just make their own adventures happen – but to empower their community to engage with the outdoors.

You help them gain not just access, but to be part of a community. Not just confidence, but maybe qualifications.