Welcome to the Local Walks and Interpretation Toolkit
This toolkit helps local communities to plan local walks and interpretation projects in their area. It covers all the different stages involved in researching and planning walks and interpretation projects as well as offering advice on how to actually do them.
The toolkit is divided into six sections, under two headings:
There are comprehensive guidance notes, printable resources and case studies as well as links to dozens of useful websites.
Contents
Section A: Local Walks - introduction
- What is meant by ‘walks’?
- What can the National Park Authority do to help?
- Why consider walks to attract tourists: pros and cons
- Benefits: tourism, economy, health, recreation,
- transport, environment, community
Section B: Local Walks – getting started
- How to set up your walk
- Setting up your team
- Partnership working
- Aims
- Who do you want to use your walk?
- Enticing tourists
- Knowing your audience
- What have you got to offer?
- SWOT analysis
- How big a project do you need?
- Big or small?
- How are you going to plan your walk?
- Choosing your route
- Circular or linear?
- Path condition survey
- Waymarking
- Gates, stiles and ‘field furniture’
- Health and Safety
- Risk Assessments
- Disability Discrimination Act
- Ecological, geological and archaeological issues
- Interpretation
- Fundraising
- Public rights of way facts
- What is a right of way?
- Your rights on a right of way
- Management of rights of way
- The Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CROW)
- Rights of Way Improvement Plan
Section C : Local Walks – developing and caring for your walk
- Action plan
- Contractor brief
- Looking after your new walk
- Maintenance programme
- Monitoring and evaluation
Section D: Interpretation - Introduction
Section E: Interpretation – Planning your Interpretation Project
1. Why are you doing it – and who should be involved?
Setting the aims for your interpretation
Aims for interpretation could include
Your team- who should be involved and what skills do you need?
Partnerships can bring shared glory
What consultation do you need to do?
2. Who are you doing it for – who is your audience?
Decide who you are interpreting for and what they want to know
Collecting background information
Including as many visitors as possible
3. What are you going to interpret?
Information about services and events
Decide what you want to tell people – your theme
4 How are you going to do your interpretation?
What kind of interpretive media do you want to use?
Printed and graphic interpretation
Advantages and disadvantages of different interpretive media
5. How will it be managed?
How are you going to fund your interpretation?
How to design a ‘fundable’ project
Looking after your interpretive project
6. Is it working?
Section F: Interpretation - Implementation of your project
Tips for writing interpretation
Tips for designing interpretation
General points to consider for developing interpretative media
Appendices:
Appendix 1: Pre Contact Contact Sheet
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