Affiliate Disclosure

There is one walk on this site, and every link to it goes to GuruWalk, the platform where Philip actually takes bookings. Those links carry a referral code: if someone reserves a place through one, GuruWalk pays this site a fee out of its own share. The visitor pays nothing to book. The walk itself is pay what you want, so whatever a guest hands Philip at the end is entirely their choice, and the code in the link never touches it. No guide paid to appear on these pages, and no attraction did either. The museums, parks, canals and squares listed here carry no booking links at all, because there is nothing to buy from them in the first place.

Where The Money Comes From

Reserve the walk through a link here, tip Philip at the end, and GuruWalk pays this site a share of its own cut. Philip runs the walk himself; this site runs nothing. A reservation costs nothing, so the code in the link never changes what a visitor hands over on the street.

The walk is the only affiliate element on this site. There is no hotel network, no display advertising, no sponsored post and no paid placement anywhere on these pages. When a booking comes through the walk's link, GuruWalk pays a commission out of its own margin, and the visitor tips the guide exactly the same amount either way. Nothing else earns anything, and this site never charges a guide or a reader for anything.

One revenue stream exists on this site and it is small: a referral commission from GuruWalk when someone reserves a place on the free walking tour through a link here. The walk itself, run by a guide named Philip, costs nothing to join and works on tips alone, so the code in the link changes no price for the visitor. There are no banner adverts, no sponsored articles and no brand paying to appear in any guide. Should a second income source ever appear, it will be named on this page before any link carrying it goes live.

The Parts Of This Site That Earn Nothing

Much of what this site describes earns it nothing at all. The free attractions, Gas Street Basin, Cannon Hill Park, Sutton Park, the Ikon Gallery and the Library of Birmingham, sit in public space or open their doors without charge. None of them carries a booking link, and none could. The only thing here that could earn a referral is the free walk, and it is pay what you want.

Where a platform shows numbers, this site passes them on rather than rounding them into slogans. The Free Birmingham Walking Tour is rated 4.78 out of 5 across 59 reviews on GuruWalk, and those figures print exactly as GuruWalk publishes them. There is one walk on the roster and one rating, so nothing is averaged, padded or smoothed over to make the lineup look fuller than it is.

What Money Never Buys Here

• How a walk qualifies. Only a real, bookable pay-what-you-want walk run by an independent local guide on GuruWalk makes it onto this site, with its rating and review count reported exactly as the platform states them. One walk meets that bar: Philip's free walking tour, rated 4.78 out of 5 across 59 reviews.
• Position is not for sale. No guide, agency or operator has paid for a place on these pages, and none has been offered one. The single walk sits where its own GuruWalk record puts it, so its rating and reviews speak for themselves, not money.
• Numbers printed as-is. The Free Birmingham Walking Tour reads 4.78 out of 5 across 59 GuruWalk reviews, and those figures print exactly as GuruWalk publishes them. Where a walk has no rating, it is shown with none rather than a flattering guess, and nothing is rounded up to look better.
• No price tags anywhere. Reserving a place on the walk costs nothing, and Philip earns only what visitors choose to tip at the end. The tour runs about two hours through Birmingham city centre, and it appears here on the same open terms as every free attraction on the site.
• Public space pays nothing. The Bullring's public art, Digbeth's street art, Edgbaston Reservoir and the towpaths out of Gas Street Basin all appear throughout this site and earn it nothing, since they are open to anyone at any time and carry no booking links. They get written about because they are genuinely free, not because a commission rides on them.

The Source Of Every Figure

Every rating and review count on this site is copied from what GuruWalk publishes for the walk, scale included. GuruWalk rates out of 5, so the Free Birmingham Walking Tour reads 4.78 out of 5 across 59 reviews. Nothing is blended, rounded or invented to fill a gap. When a gap exists, it shows, and where a figure is unknown, the page says nothing rather than guessing.

The walk on this site is free to reserve, so there are no prices to quote: the only money involved is the tip a visitor gives Philip at the end. The figures that do appear come straight from GuruWalk. The Free Birmingham Walking Tour is rated 4.78 out of 5 across 59 reviews, on the platform's five-point scale, and the run time is two hours. One walk, one set of numbers, and nothing invented to pad the roster.

Booking The Walk Without This Site

Using this site is optional at the final step. Philip's walk lives on GuruWalk under its own name, and typing that name into the platform finds it without any help from here; the referral code in this site's link is the only difference. The FAQ answers the usual questions about tipping and meeting points, and the guides cover the free attractions in their own right, so both remain useful even if no referral link is ever used.

Questions are cheaper asked before a booking than after. The contact page takes anything unclear, from how tipping on a pay-what-you-want walk actually works to why only one tour appears on this site, and the about page sets out where the ratings and review figures come from. Asking costs nothing, which fits a site about free things.