Corporate Social Responsibility

Why choose to partner with Wellness Walks?

Wellness Walks are a charity registered in England and Wales with the Charity Commission (#1209744) and in Scotland with the Scottish Charity Regulator, the OSCR, (#SC054012)

Wellness Walks is a powerful CSR partner — scalable across regions, rooted in real communities, and offering a highly visible, provable social impact.

From inner cities to rural villages, we work alongside communities who face some of the greatest barriers to accessing the outdoors. Through us, you can support and fund mental, physical and social health and well-being activities that take place in the real world, led by local volunteers, helping make a demonstrable difference to people’s lives.

Whether you’re a business bidding for contracts, a local authority seeking community investment partners, or a socially conscious organisation wanting to align your values with your actions — we can help.

Why CSR Matters More Than Ever

CSR is no longer a ‘nice to have’.
It’s a growing requirement in tenders across both public and private sectors. More and more, clients, commissioners, and customers expect a clear, provable link between your business and the social good you support.

A partnership with Wellness Walks offers that clarity — and an easy-to-demonstrate impact that meets Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) priorities, mental health and inclusion goals, and your own internal values.

Ways to Partner With Us

We offer a range of meaningful partnership options that can be tailored to your needs. Here are just a few:

🌿 Blue-Sky Days

Sponsor or book dedicated nature-based well-being days for your team, your clients, or your partners. These guided walks are designed to reduce stress, foster connection, and remind people of what really matters.

🤝 Fund Volunteer Training in Targeted Communities

Support the training and development of Wellness Walks Volunteer Leaders in areas or communities that matter most to your organisation — whether that’s a geographical area, a specific demographic, or a group facing barriers to inclusion. The beauty of partnering with Wellness Walks is we’re a national partner that is local everywhere!

🧠 Staff Wellbeing Packages

Provide your team with access to Wellness Walks or bespoke well-being days. Promote mental health, reduce burnout, and strengthen morale while supporting a grassroots charity.

🪧 Campaign or Programme Sponsorship

Back one of our public campaigns or ongoing walking programmes, such as women-only training, LGBTQ+ access walks, or Global Majority outdoor leadership. Your support will be publicly recognised, and we’ll provide clear metrics to show your impact.

🎓 Employer-Supported Volunteering

Enable and encourage your staff to volunteer with us during work time — leading walks, helping behind the scenes, or supporting one-off events. We’ll train and support them, and they’ll return with new skills, confidence, and connection.

🎁 Matched Funding & Payroll Giving

Amplify your impact by matching employee donations, or offer payroll giving options for those who want to support a charity that focuses on real-world mental health and inclusion.

How we know it works

We operate in an area where emotions and beliefs are prevalent – we help people feel better and we believe being outdoors is a significant part of that process, we can see they’re more engaged, we all know that talking to someone really helps.

However we also appreciate that in today’s world people want & expect facts – so we endeavour to be a data driven provider. But – a lot of what we do needs to be confidential for participants – so all of our data (unless specifically stated & agreed by participants – such as testimonials etc) is anonymised . On average across 2021 participants on our Wellness Walks reported a 24.8% improvement in their mental wellbeing.

Community Impact Reports

Receive professionally presented data and storytelling that captures the difference your support makes — perfect for sharing with stakeholders, clients, or on your own marketing channels.

Our data collection – the stories of real impact we’re able to share – provable behavioural change for beneficiaries – they all tell a tale that is powerful and offer a clear demostration that your support is making a tangible difference.

It’s been proved that talking therapy is as effective as medication in treating some mental health issues.

It’s also proven that being outdoors helps some people engage with the process much more. Which would you prefer? 45 minutes in a sterile consulting room or a wander out into the wonder not having to look at a clock?

People leave our sessions more engaged, more confident and knowing that they are not alone.

For many people heading out into nature may seem daunting – we get rid of that worry.

For many people a ticking clock is a scary thing – we make sure they’ve the time to be heard.

A lot of outdoor groups are aimed at large numbers – our sessions are designed to be low ratio to make sure participants have the time to engage, find the space to let go of worries and know they can pause and ponder as we wander along.

We’re not fans of labels at Wellness Walks, if you’re feeling low then we’re happy to take that at face value & try and help you.

But from time to time we may need to bring in a specialist facilitator or help you find additional support – so the more data participants share with us then the more we can help them.

Some of our sessions are designed to help people find and form peer support groups – so whatever the issue we’ll look to engage you in the outdoors and with other people.

Your Impact

Each one of those markers represents a community based Wellness Walk event – your support means that those events can expand to wherever or for whoever you choose to support – visible, real and community embedded – choosing Wellness Walks as your CSR partner offers the potential to literally leave your mark on the map (and we’re quite happy for that mark to actually be your logo…