Trefriw Walking Festival is a non-profit making venture; we don’t charge for our walks, and yet staging a major three-day walking festival is a fairly expensive undertaking. Although virtually everything is done by volunteers, we nevertheless have to find the money every year to pay a few specialists (mostly qualified Mountain Leaders) and to pay for items such as insurance, hiring the village hall for three days, hosting the website, changing the dates on our banners, getting flyers and posters printed, hiring the minibus and fuelling it, providing refreshments, paying leaders’ travel expenses …. the list is long!
Our income comes primarily from:
- walkers’ donations for attending walks (we suggest £10 for a full-day’s walk, and £5 for a half-day walk)
- donations for refreshments
We are able to accept cash or card donations – these will be taken on the day. (Payment by card is preferred as it keeps our banking charges down.)
We are consequently immensely grateful to the following, who enable us to keep the event going from one year to the next:
- our walkers for their continuing financial generosity
- our walk leaders, who always give so generously of their time
- our other volunteers, who help in many ways at the event
- our organizing committee, who give of their time through much of the year
- our sponsors (see our sponsors page)
In addition, in 2017 we joined the Outdoor Partnership, which has an annual membership fee, but which provides and subsidises training opportunities. As a result of this, since then many members of the team have updated their Outdoor First Aid qualifications.
In 2017 we were also awarded a small grant from the SportWales Community Chest, which has paid our training costs and also enabled us to purchase some equipment (such as first aid kits, maps, ladies’ rucksacks and navigation equipment).
A HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL!