Calling all charities, clubs, councils, schools, community groups, health teams, libraries, leisure centres and other nonprofits - including all staff, volunteers, friends and community members..
What if we made walking, running, wheeling, cycling and riding easier for everyone in our communities?
Get everything you need to share and enjoy the best walking, running, cycling, horse-riding, wheelchair, scooter and pushchair routes.
Sign up early, help spread the word and we'll
thank you with free membership vouchers for
your organisation, your community and yourself.
It's easy - just sign up using the form below!
We're a nonprofit Community Interest Company on a mission to make it easier for everyone to find, follow and share the best active routes.
We've already worked with volunteers to create a 140,000km (87,000 mile) national walking network that connects all of Britain's towns, cities and national landscapes.
Now we're crowdfunding to enable charities and other nonprofit organisations to create active route networks with and for their communities - right across Britain, Ireland and the Channel Islands.
We don't believe a single perspective on a path is satisfactory. It inevitably excludes people.
We envision multiple organisations in an area sharing the best routes for their different communities and audiences - ones that are designed and communicated in ways that meet people's diverse interests and needs.
We'll join up everyone's efforts on one easy-to-use website and app. And all your routes will be protected and remain on the site even if your membership ends.
The public will always be able to use Slow Ways routes for free. Our new members will get extra powers and benefits, including the ability to create their own networks.
Here's how to join in.
Unlock 24 months free with membership vouchers worth up to £100 if our crowdfunder hits its goal and we build the new website.
You choose how to use the vouchers you earn:
for an organisation, a community, friends or yourself.
Get your first of 12 months when you sign up!
Free Organisation Membership (usually £50 a year)
Get everything you need to create great routes and networks. You'll be able to:
- Create routes, trails, networks and collections
- Share short, long, linear, circular, functional and leisure routes
- Design routes that match the interests and needs of your community
- Clearly show the accessibility of routes
- Support other organisations by contributing to their routes and networks
- Manage a public profile page and monitor stats with a dashboard
You'll also be able to collaborate with and manage a team of staff, volunteers and supporters that have Individual Memberships. They'll be able to help create, curate, verify, survey and interpret routes - making your route network bigger and better for your community.
Inviting your staff and community to sign up to the offer on this page is a great way to grow a potential team.
Free Individual Membership (usually £30 a year)
Love being active outdoors? Want to find, follow and share the best active routes more easily? Use your Individual Membership to:
- help organisations develop routes and networks
- get additional features and functionality
- enjoy extra talks, podcasts and workshops
- do challenges and collect badges
- vote on what features and tools we develop next
If you've not noticed, we've an additional UpViral campaign you can join here.
Find out more about memberships on our crowdfunding page
We're using this UpViral page to manage our Slow Ways referral campaign. By signing up, you agree that your information will be shared with UpViral and used by Slow Ways to email you for marketing purposes. You can View, Edit and Delete your information at UpViral anytime here or by contacting us directly. You can unsubscribe from marketing in the footer of any marketing emails we send you.
You must be 16 or older to participate.
By continuing, you agree to our terms and conditions below and confirm that we may process your information in accordance with the privacy policies for both UpViral and Slow Ways.
Who will use the Slow Ways platform and why?
Looking for some inspiration for the kinds of people and organisations that will use the new Slow Ways website, app and maps? We've been working on the "Routes Wheel" below to help imagine possibilities.
Read from the outside to the middle to see possible route makers, types, users and outcomes. Use your imagination to spin the rings in order to create new combinations.
Click here or on the wheel to see it in full.
About Your Membership Vouchers
We can only guarantee your membership vouchers if our crowdfunder is successful and we build the new Slow Ways website - so please support us!
Vouchers must be claimed within 12 months of the new website being launched.
Only 12 months of vouchers from our UpViral campaigns can be claimed by any one person, organisation or user account. If you haven't noticed - we've another campaign here. You are welcome to join both, but they are separate campaigns and so your points will be added up separately.
Your efforts will not go to waste. Any unclaimed vouchers will be donated to charities or other nonprofit organisations to distribute.
Backed our crowdfunder? You'll be able to claim both sets of rewards against your account.
The new website is expected by Spring 2026. Early involvement will help shape its development.
For full terms click on the Terms & Conditions link in the sign up form.
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