Open to all staff and students, the group will organise a short walk in the town once a week, with regular 'portable breakfast/lunch' walks and periodic 'expert leader' walks at weekends for staff, students, friends and family members.

‌The weekday walks will be scheduled in advance (so people can plan ahead) and will take place either the early morning, late afternoon or at lunchtimes, and will alternate between different days to make them as accessible as possible. 

Anyone staff member or student can join the group, and can attend as many or as few of the walks as they wish, but walkers will have to register as WWOW members and book onto each walk. 

The walks are led by trained Walk Leaders, using routes planned in advance and risk-assessed. We currently have a small group of Walk Leaders and are scheduling further training. If we have more walk leaders we can have more groups walking and more frequent walks. The capacity of the WWOW to grow will therefore be dependant on having enough trained Walk Leaders and we are very keen to hear from people who may be willing to become walk leaders.

• To provide a ‘community activity’, not connected to people’s jobs or study, in which University staff and students can take part
• ‌To encourage staff and students to be more physically active during the working day
• To involve more members of University staff and student body to participate in a formal ‘health and wellbeing’ initiative, which may act as a ‘gateway’ to participate in other activities
• To contribute to the development of an active ‘health and wellbeing’ movement within the University

Once you have registered we'll make sure that you have access to walk routes, risk assessments and the current walk schedule.

You will be able to pre-book your place on the walks which suit you best.

To become a Walk Leader you must:-

• attend the 2 hour training session
• produce one route plan for a 30 minute walk
• complete the simple risk assessment for their walking route using our pro-forma risk assessment document
• lead a walk no more frequently that once every 6 weeks

When leading a walk Walk Leaders will:

• check participants off against the WWOW register
• explain the walk route and any notes/hazards
• appoint a 'back leader' (if necessary)
• check that all participants have accepted the 'health walk agreement' (which they will do when they sign up to be a member) and know the walk rules
• compete an incident form if there are any accidents or incidents during the walk

It might sound a bit bureaucratic but all of this is actually very quick and easy, and ensures that we meet our duty of care so that our walkers can enjoy the walks in safety.

The images for all routes have been saved on a PDF: WWOW walking routes - ALL (PDF, 574 KB)

Lade Braes Central (PDF, 48 KB)

Lade Braes East (PDF, 46 KB)

Gateway along West Sands (PDF, 40 KB)

Gateway along cycle track to Balgove Larder (PDF, 40 KB)

The R&A Loop (PDF, 39 KB)

East Sands Loop (PDF, 71 KB)

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Long Walk and Kinnessburn (PDF, 97 KB)‌

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Beach Walk (PDF, 42 KB)‌

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Lade Braes West (PDF, 40 KB)

Paths and Wynds (PDF, 101 KB)

West Sands Loop (PDF, 35 KB)

If you wish to join the walk please accept the invite and if you don't wish to participate please decline. If you are undecided either don't respond immediately or register maybe as you can change the status of your response at any time. The number of spaces on each walk maybe limited, we would therefore request you confirm your attendance to guarantee your space.

Details of training shall appear here when available.