Every Body Outdoors in Gloucestershire

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare is in the Cotswolds this week with a fantastic group called Every Body Outdoors. They begin their walk in the village of King’s Stanley, Gloucestershire and complete a five mile circuit taking in a stretch of Stroudwater Canal, before heading up to the top of Selsley Common.

Co-founded by Steph Wetherell, Every Body Outdoors is a walking group specifically aimed at plus size people who want to build confidence in the outdoors. Many had tried to join conventional groups but either didn’t feel welcome or had bad experiences.

Another aim of the group is to work with outdoor brands and retailers to encourage them to provide better designed plus-size kit and clothing . Most technical gear, Steph says, stops at a size 16-18 and there’s little available above a size 20.

The group has been so successful they’ve recently trained a group of volunteers who now lead plus size walks all around the UK.

Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:38.1	Sounds BBC Sounds music radio podcasts I've come to Gloucestershire today to join a group called
0:48.4	everybody outdoors we have got eight people and two dogs.
0:57.4	One is a spring spaniel cross with a clumber spaniel and the other is a very waggy-tailed poodle called Purdy.
1:02.1	We're on OS Explorer 168 which is Stroud, Tetbury and Malmsbury.
1:07.7	And the grid reference for our starting point, we're at King Stanley Village Hall it's
1:11.7	S.O 812035 and King Stanley is a few miles outside of Stroud really beautiful area of the country
1:23.2	and peppered with footpaths we're just going to go down a steep staircase
1:29.3	into the bottom of a valley
1:31.3	and then I'll find out more about why this group was established
1:34.3	Who For with Steph.
1:39.3	Come through a squeaky kissing gate into a field
1:41.3	with three horses in it. And they look to be through there a chimney
1:46.5	a very did it used to be a factory or something here so we're coming up to the stroud water navigation
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