Try your hand at virtual welly wanging with the Welly Wallop Game!

See how far you can throw the welly using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

This great welly game was created to celebrate Macmillan Cancer Support’s Walk Wonders campaign to raise funds to help people living with cancer.

Learn more about how you can join in with Walk Wonders at the Macmillan Cancer Support website.

Hunter wellington boots in hot pink were featured in the girls’ photo shoot in this week’s episode of Britain’s Next Top Model on Living TV. Leanne Nagle wore a sporting tweed suit and cartridge bag, teamed with a pair of fuscia Hunter wellies for her high fashion shoot - more evidence, if ever it was needed, that Hunter boots are at the cutting edge of outdoor style.

View the complete image gallery of this week’s shoot at the BNTM website.

Around 80 pupils and staff at Orston Primary School donned their wellies this week and helped to raise funds to help support the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s efforts to conserve barn owls and other farmland birds.

As well as wearing their wellies for a special Achievement Assembly, pupils swapped wellies, made butterfly feeders and came up with a host of ideas as to how wellies could help create new wildlife habitats!

This new ‘Wear your Wellies for Wildlife’ initiative is a fundraising idea where people wear their wellies as they go about their everyday business, raising sponsorship money and/or hosting fundraising events and activities on the day.

Find out more at the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust website.

Welly Week is well underway raising funds for Garden Organic’s campaign to promote organic food and farming, with schools and companies all over the UK turning up in their wellies this week.

They report, “Possibly the strangest confirmed place to wear wellies so far, Airkix in Milton Keynes is an upwards facing wind machine that gives the feeling of free-falling from an aeroplane. Airkix are donating £3 to Garden Organic each time someone wears their wellies whilst flying from April 21-27″.

The Hunter Boot company have committed to raising at least £20,000 for the charity WaterAid this year.

A special limited edition WaterAid wellington boot will be worn and signed by performers and celebrities at Glastonbury festival in June, and a limited number will be auctioned online from July.

WaterAid works to provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world’s poorest people, and to date has helped over 11 million people gain access to these services.

Hunter boots have won iconic status in recent years, largely owing to their popularity with celebrities. Anyone who is anyone has been seen sporting a pair of Hunter wellies in the Glastonbury mud. Kate Moss famously took festival chic to a new level with mini-dresses and black Hunter wellingtons at Glastonbury Festival 2007 and these days the Hunter boot is a must-have fashion statement.

So much so in fact, that Hunter are set to launch a highly exclusive new Festival Wellies range in the next couple of weeks. In a range of bold colours teamed with fabulous striped linings, the new Hunter Festival Wellies include the Original Hunter welly boot which has been tweaked slightly to give it a new fashionable edge, and also two shorter boots, one which pulls on, and another that laces up the front.

Tipped to be one of the hottest fashion statements on the festival circuit this year.

Get the kids outdoors with our top 5 tips for fun in wellies this Spring!

1. WELLY WANGING – everyone put their wellies on and head out into the garden or a large space outdoors. Take one boot off and throw it as far as possible while standing on one leg, then hop to where it landed and the furthest throw wins.

2. JELLY WELLY RELAY – form teams of 4 children, and then fill an adult wellington boot with jelly for each team. Each team needs 2 members at each end of the garden, and when the whistle blows the first runner puts his/her foot in the jelly welly and runs to the other end, where the welly is transferred to the next player who runs back. The first relay team to finish wins.

3. JUMP THE WELLY – another game for a large group. Tie a wellington boot to the end of a 4-5 metre rope and form a large circle with one person in the centre holding the end of the rope – then start to swing it round and everyone has to jump over it. If the rope touches you, you’re out, and the last one standing is the winner!

4. PUDDLE JUMPING – there’s nothing complicated about this one – it’s exactly as it sounds, just get your wellies on and get jumping in those puddles. Great fun for toddlers.

5. GARDEN WELLIES - don’t throw your faithful old wellies away - get the kids interested in the garden by planting flowers or vegetables in them and watch them grow.

The Environment Agency and Newcastle based architects Xsite have joined forces to produce a work of sculptural art in the form of ten large cubes that will travel the course of the River Tyne throughout 2008, reflecting the life cycle of the salmon on its year long journey from the river to the sea. The Tyne Salmon Trail as it is known, was launched in December 2007 and the final four cubes (including one covered in discarded rubber wellies) were unveiled last week.

The cubes are beautiful pieces of sculpture that use a range of materials reflecting the beauty of the salmon and the surrounding landscape, such as wooden fins, shimmering scales and carved wooden dowels, while also using man made materials such as punctured steel and recycled bottles and wellies to describe the journey and the changing colours/texture of the salmon.

Find out more about this innovative exhibition on the official website.

Five tonnes of wellington boots discarded by revellers at Glastonbury Festival over recent years have been sent to Africa for farmworkers to wear.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis said he was delighted the mountain of welly boots had been found a new lease of life: “We’ve been keeping tonnes of them rather than put them into landfill and now the Africans are going to wear them, isn’t that great.”

Story courtesy of BBC News.  

Fashion designer Tamara Henriques, who began her career at American Vogue and has designed wellies for Paul Smith and Thomas Pink, has launched her new Black Patchwork Wellington Boot specifically with Glastonbury Festival in mind.

Inspired by a 1970s patchwork print, this colourful welly is full of good vibes - perfect if you fancy standing out from the crowd in style this Summer.