The 2025 edition of the Cyril Bean Annual Challenge will take place on 6 April 2025.
Entries are now open and are likely to sell out quickly.… Read more

Due to weeks of heavy rain leading up the the date the course was waterlogged in many places and extremely boggy and with stretches of deep mud on the narrow paths. … Read more

The task for today’s four-strong work party was to clear the ACW enclosed path that runs round Birchley Hayes wood.… Read more

A footbridge on Walk 7 of our 21 Circular Walks, situated between Bubbenhall Wood and Weston Lane, has a rotten centre plank in need of replacement.… Read more

We have revised the route descriptions for all 21 Circular Walks to take into account footpath diversions due to HS2 and various housing developments.… Read more

Following reports that part of the route of one of our 21 Circular Walks was seriously overgrown and that a footbridge was in quite poor condition we set out to assess the work needed.… Read more

Responding to a request from a regular footpath user our work party took a look at a stile near Breach Oak Lane.… Read more

We used the “The Big Help Out” bank holiday to carry out some stile repairs near Birchley Hayes wood.… Read more

It was tough going in places, participants arriving at the finish carrying plenty of mud but also with smiles on their faces having achieved what they set out to do. … Read more

Again, in readiness for the forthcoming Annual Challenge event our work party set out to trim back the hedges alongside the footpath as it emerges onto Lower Road in the village of Barnacle.… Read more

Repairs to a wobbly stile on a path in Corley Moor meant carrying tools and pushing a wheelbarrow on a half-mile trek from the closest roadway.… Read more

In preparation for the Annual Challenge event in April our four-strong work party cleared a stretch of the roadside footpath along the Stoneleigh Road.… Read more