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Nothing on this site is sold, reserved or operated by it. The one walk described here, the Free Birmingham Walking Tour run by Philip, sits on GuruWalk as a pay-what-you-want listing, and every spot is reserved there. This site holds no booking system of its own. What it does have is a single email address, read regularly. A correction, a free attraction missing from a page, or a flat insistence that a page is wrong all arrive the same way, and a short message beats a long one.
Not every email carries the same weight. A note that catches a wrong entry rule, or points to a pay-what-you-want Birmingham walk this site has never heard of, moves faster than a general travel query. Send anything matching the items below and it will be read first.
- Facts drift. A guide switches meeting points, a gallery closes a floor, a historic house shutters its grounds for winter. Where a page here no longer matches reality, write in and it gets fixed. One thing that cannot drift is price, because the only walk listed is pay what you want.
- A walk that has stopped or quietly changed. The single listing here could pause bookings, drop a stop, or shift its start point in Birmingham city centre, and a page that still describes the old version misleads. Tell this site the walk's name and what has shifted. Once checked, the text is amended or the walk is removed.
- If a free-entry rule is wrong, say which day or season it actually applies. Same if a paid museum is described as costing nothing, or a house is called free when only its grounds are. The split rules at Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall and Sarehole Mill are exactly the kind of fact that slips, and each one here is checked against the operator's own page.
- Spotted something this site has missed? Any free, pay-what-you-want Birmingham walk with a live, bookable GuruWalk listing that sits outside these pages deserves to be on them, and sending the link to its GuruWalk page is the quickest way to flag it. Each suggestion faces the same checks the current tour went through. No guide pays to appear here, and none can pay for a better spot.
- Everyday questions are welcome too, whether the FAQ already covers them or the answer sits deeper in the guides.
Email info@freethingstodoinbirmingham.com
After You Write
Every message that arrives gets read, and factual corrections jump the queue. A museum that has started charging, a park path closed for work, or an opening time that has changed can waste a visitor's only free afternoon in Birmingham, so fixes to those details come before anything else. Broader questions take longer, and some are better answered by a new page than by a reply. There is no newsletter, and no email address is passed beyond this site.
What This Site Is Not
No booking is made through these pages. The single walk described here, the Stories, Landmarks & Local Insights tour run by Philip, lives on GuruWalk, and every step of joining it happens there: saving a place, releasing it and tipping the guide at the end. This site sets out what to expect and points the way, nothing more.
Anything connected to a spot already held starts with the confirmation email from GuruWalk. It holds the booking reference, the meeting point and a direct line to Philip, who runs the tour. Only the guide can deal with a late start, a missed rendezvous or a change of plan, because the walk is his, not this site's. A booking query sent here simply sits unanswered.
Two details in that confirmation deserve attention before anyone writes here. First, the meeting point: Birmingham groups assemble at a precise spot, a named square, a library entrance, a place by the cathedral, and a vague description is how walkers miss the tour entirely. Second, the cancellation window, which Philip sets and which still binds a free, pay-what-you-want booking. The walk's own page on GuruWalk settles both matters.
Still deciding? The walk categories gather the city's single free walking tour into one place, and the guides set out which Birmingham attractions cost nothing, which carry a fee or a condition, and how tipping works when a walk is pay what you want. Most questions already have an answer in those pages.