Is your business Walking Friendly?
You could benefit from free enhanced promotion
We'd like to celebrate and promote businesses who meet or exceed a set of requirements based on facilities, services and information. The aim is to ensure that visitors can easily access information specifically relating to walking, highlighting businesses that offer facilities to meet the needs of walkers.
If you offer the right facilities, services and information you can sign up to the Walking Friendly scheme free. Once accepted, you'll get the Walking Friendly logo to use on your website/ social media and be included on an interactive map on the North York Moors National Park website with a link to your website.
We've got three categories for Walking Friendly - cafes, tea rooms and pubs, accommodation providers and activity providers/ retailers. You can apply for as many as you wish!
The North York Moors Walking Friendly scheme is part of a wider EARFD-funded project to promote outdoor activities.
The aim is to boost tourism by working with businesses to collectively promote the area’s special character and encourage visitors to explore the area in more depth, staying longer and spending more, all year round.
If you offer the right facilities, services and information you can sign up to the Walking Friendly scheme free. Once accepted, you'll get the Walking Friendly logo to use on your website/ social media and be included on an interactive map on the North York Moors National Park website with a link to your website.
We've got three categories for Walking Friendly - cafes, tea rooms and pubs, accommodation providers and activity providers/ retailers. You can apply for as many as you wish!
The North York Moors Walking Friendly scheme is part of a wider EARFD-funded project to promote outdoor activities.
The aim is to boost tourism by working with businesses to collectively promote the area’s special character and encourage visitors to explore the area in more depth, staying longer and spending more, all year round.
What to do next
Take a look at the relevant details for your type of business to make sure you offer suitable facilities & services.
Download details of Walking Friendly for accommodation providers
Download details of Walking Friendly for pubs, cafes, and tea rooms
Download details of Walking Friendly for activity providers and retailers
Complete the form and either email to Emily Watson e.watson@northyorkmoors.org.uk or post to Emily Watson, North York Moors National Park, The Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley, York YO62 5BP
Emily will double check your application which should include supporting evidence in the form of photos.
Once your application is accepted you'll receive the logo and more information about how you'll benefit.
The logo and any copy on your website should link to https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/walkingfriendly
Businesses will also work together for example to create local walks that link Walking Friendly accommodation providers with cafés, tea rooms and pubs. Additional resources such as business contacts (for collaboration), walking images and downloadable walks are also available to help you promote walking activities to existing and prospective guests or customers.
Download details of Walking Friendly for accommodation providers
Download details of Walking Friendly for pubs, cafes, and tea rooms
Download details of Walking Friendly for activity providers and retailers
Complete the form and either email to Emily Watson e.watson@northyorkmoors.org.uk or post to Emily Watson, North York Moors National Park, The Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley, York YO62 5BP
Emily will double check your application which should include supporting evidence in the form of photos.
Once your application is accepted you'll receive the logo and more information about how you'll benefit.
The logo and any copy on your website should link to https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/walkingfriendly
Businesses will also work together for example to create local walks that link Walking Friendly accommodation providers with cafés, tea rooms and pubs. Additional resources such as business contacts (for collaboration), walking images and downloadable walks are also available to help you promote walking activities to existing and prospective guests or customers.
Funding for this project has been secured from the Rural Development Programme for England, funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD): Europe investing in rural areas.
