BWF NATIONAL TRAILS
A 'BWF National Trails' IVV stamp is available for walking National Trails in England (except the King Charles III England Coast Path) or Wales, or Scotland's Great Trails.
Walkers who require more details of the trails in England & Wales can visit the National Trails website. Walkers who require more details of the trails in Scotland can visit the Scotland's Great Trails website.
Not one of these trails? Any route that is over 30kms can be registered as a Medium Distance Walk and routes over 100kms can be registered as a Long Distance Walks to get IVV accreditation.
REGISTRATION
To register for a BWF National Trail you need to complete a NT LDW MDW Registration Form and submit it together with the registration fee of £2.00 to the BWF MDW/LDW/NT Officer. On registration, you will be issued with a Report Book which you should complete on a daily basis. Each day you should record the date, distance walked, weather and collect a dated till receipt, shop/hotel stamp etc. If you need more pages these can be downloaded. The information collected acts as a check that the walk has actually been completed.
COMPLETION
On completion of a BWF National Trail or part of a trail you should send your report book together with the validation fee of £5.00 to the BWF MDW/LDW/NT Officer. They will issue the appropriate IVV credit for the distance completed and event stamps as per the IVV guidelines of 1 event stamp for each 20 kilometres completed. Those who complete the full trail will receive a full colour certificate of achievement. Those who only walk part of a trail will receive IVV credit as detailed above but will not receive a certificate.
Please remember that your record book and IVV books will most likely exceed the Royal Mail size/thickness limit for a normal stamp - so you will need at least a "large" stamp and may also need to consider the value if the weight exceeds 100g.
There is a special Challenge, which is to complete 100 different BWF registered Permanent Trails, National Trails, Medium Distance Walks or Long Distance Walks. For more information go to PT100 Challenge.