08/01/2024

Newsletter 1

Happy New Year!

From all of us at the Suffolk Walking Festival we would like to wish you a very Happy New Year.

After the resounding success of the 2023 Suffolk Walking Festival, we are pleased to announce that the festival will once again return in May 2024. The dates are set, launch venue is confirmed and the programme is finalised!

Watch our video

Relive 2023 and watch a short video with footage taken from last year’s Wool Town Walk.


Save the Date!

11/05/2024 – 26/05/2024

The 2024 festival launches on Saturday 11th May and we’re delighted to be hosted once again at the beautiful Thornham Estate with a discovery tour of the estate’s natural history; a tasty stroll foraging the estate’s woodlands; and a step back in time along a 900-year old Drove Road.

Over the following 2-weeks we’ll explore every corner of Suffolk. We re-visit Orford Ness – an island full of secrets, enjoy more mindfulness moments in an ancient wood, and relax again on a river trip before a gentle amble. New for 2024, we venture into the vast Broads National Park, turn a hand to creative writing on a Haiku walk, and join Ambling African Women, a new walking group based in Ipswich, for a guided walk along the Sailors Path at Snape.

The full festival programme will be released along with ticket sales on 1st March 2024. Follow the festival on Facebook for latest news.


Suffolk Walking Festival Challenge Walk 2023 Day 4
Suffolk Walking Festival Launch 2023

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The Suffolk Walking Festival has been nominated in the East Anglian Festival Networks ‘Festivals of the Year Awards 2023’. If you enjoyed our 2023 event, please help us raise its profile even further by casting a vote for us before the deadline on 10th January. Visit https://eafn.co.uk/annual-festivals-of-the-year-poll/ to vote for your favourite East Anglian Festivals.