Forward Footing at Eaton Park, Norwich

Eaton Park is a beautiful park in Norwich, with a very active friends group and a wonderful variety of areas to suit everybody. We planned three walks throughout the day, visiting and responding to different areas of the park.

The day began with drizzly rain so Carole and Jo just set to creating interventions around the park. As the weather cleared, more people started to arrive at the park and, as the day went on, and the interventions appeared around the park, people began to get curious! The sun came out and the afternoon was glorious, and more and more people got involved as they saw things appearing around the place. It was a fantastic day, lots of new connections made and lovely people of all ages joining in. We want to go back!

Here are the interventions throughout the day:

The Ringing Round Walk, at the band stand and between the trees:

The Ping Pong Promenade, alongside the lily pond:

The Meadowlands walk:

...where a bee suddenly appeared and joined us!

You can view images from the day by Kate Dyer here

You can view images rom the day by Andrew Rushton here

You can view the albums from all of our Forward Footing Walks here

Thanks to Anastazja Jasinska for appearing as the bee. Find out more about Anastazja's Bee Movies.

Upcoming Forward Footing walks in Norwich and Spalding

We are very excited, having visited the location for our Norwich walk, Eaton Park - what a beautiful place! Please do join us for one of our three hours walks there on Saturday 25th July.  All the walks are free to join, suitable for all ages, sign up on the day - limited numbers.

Saturday 25th July
Eaton Park, Norwich
11am Meadowlands walk
1pm Ping Pong Promenade
3pm Ringing Round walk

Also, we have a NEW DATE!
Monday 24th August
We will be walking in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Exact details and location to be confirmed, for now save the date!

We hope you can join us for one of these dates.

Upcoming walks - book soon!

Our next Forward Footing walks are arranged, continuing our touring project of intervention walks around the country:

The Flavour Exchange Mystery Tour
Saturday 20th June, start 11am, Birmingham Moor Street Station. Lasts all day.
A creative walk in a mystery location! An event with Still Walking.
 - only four tickets left! Click here for all the details.

The Flaming Skirt Festival
Sunday 28th June, a one day pop-up festival on a bus! Includes walks, stop offs, creative activity, performances...  leaves from Ironville, Derbyshire.
Starts 10am, lasts all day. Click here for details and booking.

New date:

Love Parks Festival
Saturday 25th July, Eaton Park, Norwich.
The event includes our walks around the park with our interactive kit, a celebration of submarines on the boating lake and more!
Booking on the day. A one hour walk, starting times 11am, 1pm or 3pm. Visit the Friends of Eaton Park website for directions

New dates in June for Forward Footing walks

We have some new dates arranged for our Forward Footing walks. Places are limited so please email us to book or for more details at milesanddacombe@virginmedia.com

We have two dates with the Flaming Skirt Festival:

Various venues starting at 10am at Ivanhoe College, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, Sunday 7th June. Finish 5:30pm

Various venues starting at 10am at Ironville Church Hall, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, Sunday 28th June 2015. Finish 5:30pm.

Flaming Skirt is a one-day festival of creative activity for all the family, including a bus between venues. More details will follow. Visit the Flaming Skirt website to get a flavour from last year's festival.

In between those two dates, we will be in

Birmingham, Saturday 20th June 2015, (times to be confirmed) as part of the Still Walking Festival.

The Still Walking Festival run a series of walks led by people of different disciplines and various expertise, in order to re-discover the city from new viewpoints. You can read more about them on their website and there will be more info on 2015 events shortly.

Also, we are planning a walk in

Norwich in Eaton Park.

The date for this is yet to be confirmed, so keep checking back to this page or join our e-mailing list to be kept up to date.