What is Walking and Talking?

It is a mother and baby coffee group, with a slight difference, and we will be focusing on the wonderful physical and mental health benefits walking and talking offers, to everyone, not just to new parents. But in this case, especially for new parents and pregnant women.

Details:

When: Every Tuesday
What time: 13:00 to 14:00/14:30, depending on if we stop for a drink at the end or not!
Where: various venues in and around the Witney area

In each location there will usually be a chance to grab a hot drink after the walk. If you would like to bring your own drink in a travel mug, please feel free to do so.

Unless stated otherwise, the walks are pram friendly, although we cannot guarantee that your pram won’t be a bit muddy by the end, if it has been raining recently! We always choose routes that avoid stiles and kissing gates, but sometimes the paths we use are unpaved, so small pram wheels may get a bit clogged with mud.

We vary the location of the walks (dependent on the forecast), deciding on the location on the Friday before the walk and then we announce it on a dedicated WhatsApp group over the weekend. So please join this group to be kept up to date on where each week’s walk is happening, and any unexpected changes on the day. You can book your place up to the morning of the walk, but if we don’t have minimum numbers (3 bookings) by the morning before, then we will cancel the walk, as we want there to be enough people to give everyone a chance to have someone to chat to. So if you can book on by the Monday morning, that is really helpful to us, and makes it more likely that each week’s walk will go ahead as planned. So long as we have reached minimum numbers by the morning before then we are happy to take last minute bookings too, so if you find that the website won’t let you book on as it is too close to the start time, just message us on the WhatsApp group and we can tell you where we are meeting, and you can just bring £3 in cash on the day.

Older children, dogs, grandparents, dads and friends are welcome to attend too, so please bring along anyone else if you need/want to. The price is £3 per family, not per individual.

We will be walking regardless of the weather, so be prepared for wet and/or the cold to make sure you and baby are warm and dry! (Unless conditions are extreme, in which case you will be contacted by phone on the morning of the walk with cancellation information.)

Bookings

There is a small administrative charge of £3 per family. From January this will increase to £4.

The walks take place every Tuesday afternoon, somewhere in or near Witney.

Details of where we are meeting and walking will be announced on a dedicated WhatsApp group the weekend before the walk, so please make sure you join that group.

If you book a place and then realise you can’t make it, please let us know with as much notice as possible, so that we can offer it to someone else. Please don’t just not turn up!