About the Festival
The Inverness festival is a week long celebration of walking and wheeling.
We aim to shine a light on the wonderful opportunities available in the heart of the Highlands to enjoy the benefits of being active outdoors!
The festival is coordinated by Partnerships for Wellbeing and brings together over 30 different partners to offer a variety of activities for different ages and abilities.
Getting active is great for our health & wellbeing and can also benefit the health of our environment. We can all play our part in reducing our carbon footprint by taking short, local journeys by foot, wheeling or public transport. The festival will champion active travel in all its forms!
NEW for THIS year: Walking Football with ICT Community hub; Walking Rugby with Highland Rugby Club; Karen Powell Pilates will be joining us this year to lead a Nordic Walking session at Daviot Woods, and Nordic Walking for Parkinsons at Torvean Park; and Charlotte MacKenzie from Arts In Nature will be leading an under 5’s creative session at Ness Islands.
We look forward to welcoming back our partners from previous years: Velo City sociable cycling, Highland Paranormal’s highly popular ghost walk, a variety of history walks with Andrew Lucas from Inverness Library, guided nature walks with N4H, Highland Disabled scooter ramble will be taking place at Brahan Estate this year too.
We say goodbye to Wee Adventure Scotland this year who, for the last 3 years, have coordinated a fantastic family fun event at Culduthel Woods. They are moving on to other things but have kindly donated £200 towards the under 5’s creative session this year. Culduthel Woods Group will lead the woods adventure this year and we have an action packed afternoon planned which includes outdoor creative crafts, laughter yoga, fire pit, pine cone catapult, Inverness Royal British Legion Pipe Band, cycle maintenance sessions and more….
Take a look at our What’s On page and come and join us!
1st-7th June ‘26
Hi, I’m Jayne, the Inverness Walking & Wheeling Festival Coordinator.
I joined Partnerships for Wellbeing in November 2022 to coordinate the festival and manage our health walks.
Walking is something I do a lot of in my spare time, generally accompanied by a lurcher or two, so it would be fitting to include a photo of me & Scout on a hill, on a rare sunny day!
It was a pleasure to be involved in coordinating the last two festivals and I’m looking forward to working with Marie Law, our Health Walks & Events Assistant, and our partners to create activities & events for a great festival this summer!
