Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust will be hosting a special celebration of their Dudley’s Path to Nature Recovery project with a choice of four guided walks across the borough.

Taking place on Saturday 26 July, each route will take you through some of Dudley’s beautiful green spaces, offering a chance to enjoy nature, connect with others, and reflect on the environment around you.

All walks will culminate in a buffet lunch and a relaxed creative collage activity near Dudley High Street, where you can share your experiences and help shape a visual story of the journey together.

Whether you're a nature lover, a local resident, or just curious about getting involved, this event is a chance to walk, talk, and celebrate Dudley's natural spaces and community spirit.

The walks will be occurring at the same time, so please don't book on to more than one. These include:

• Listening to the Land: A Sound Walk with Laura Onions - Sedgley Beacon to Dudley Town Centre

  Join artist and educator Laura Onions for a gently unfolding journey through layered landscapes and hidden histories. Beginning at the high point of Sedgley Beacon, where panoramic views stretch across and beyond Dudley, trace a route that winds down into the ancient paths of Whites Lane and Turls Hill Lane, skirting the waters of Parkes Hall Reservoir, and moving through the fossil-rich terrain of Wrens Nest National Nature Reserve before arriving in Dudley Town Centre via Priory Park.

• Peaks and Cairns of Dudley: A Walk with Daniella Turbin & Andy Howlett - Bury Hill Park, Oldbury to Dudley Town Centre

  Join Walkspace artists Daniella Turbin and Andy Howlett for a creative and adventurous ramble across the southern reaches of the Rowley and Dudley hills. Taking inspiration from local landscapes, overlooked heights, and the legacy of Dudley’s own “God’s Mountaineer” Bert Bissell, this walk will explore how the dramatic geography of the Black Country has long inspired journeys of imagination and endurance.

• Salt, Stone and Sky: A guided walk through Saltwells - Saltwells Local Nature Reserve to Dudley Town Centre

  Join Senior Engagement Officer Holly King, for a gently unfolding walk through Saltwells Local Nature Reserve, where layers of deep time, industrial memory, and ecological life meet underfoot. Along the way, we’ll pause with the past - to consider the salt springs that gave this place its name, to imagine the giant dragonflies that once filled the skies, and to feel the presence of lives and landscapes shaped by coal, clay, and water.

• A Black Country Bug Walk - Peggy’s Meadow to Dudley Town Centre

  Join entomologist Aaron Bhambra and EcoRecord Manager Andy Slater for a curious ramble through Peggy’s Meadow - a hidden patch of urban wild tucked into the heart of Dudley.

  This gently paced walk invites you to engage with the overlooked worlds of bees, beetles, wasps, and hoverflies; pollinating insects that quietly sustain our ecosystems, even in the most unexpected corners of the city.

You can book onto A Dudley Day Out walk at bbcwildlife.org.uk.