Be part of the Greater Manchester Walking Festival every May
The GM Walking Festival is a celebration of walking and wheeling, as part of May’s National Walking Month.
It’s an opportunity for everyone, whatever role you play in Greater Manchester, to celebrate the many benefits of walking and wheeling more as a fundamental part of daily life.
Walking and wheeling (meaning to moving at walking pace e.g. pushchairs, wheelchairs, and other forms of mobility aids) has many benefits including meeting new people, getting outdoors, and discovering new places, which are shown to improve health and wellbeing and reduce social isolation.
Each year, GM Moving works with partners, communities, and groups, to develop a programme of free, organised group walks across Greater Manchester which are open to all.
Join us in celebrating National Walking Month throughout the whole month of May. Anyone can host a walk, let us know what walking and wheeling activities you have planned. This year we are ‘Celebrating Connected Communities’ and how walking can be used to bring communities together.
Our 2026 programme of activities, organised and shaped by local people and organisations, will spread the joy of walking and wheeling, and celebrate connecting hundreds of people to each other and their local places.
