Fitter for Walking
Fitter for Walking is a project to help residents in five areas of England create streets they can be proud of. It's funded by the Big Lottery Fund, along with contributions from local councils in each of our target areas.
We all hear a lot about the need to increase the amount of exercise we take, and for busy people the best answer to that can be leaving the car keys at home and walking more as part of their daily routine.
But to do that, we need our streets to feel safe, look attractive, and be looked after with people in mind. Often it's simple things that can make a huge difference to how we view our streets - whether clearing up a particularly useful walking route, starting up street parties, or running campaigns to get parents walking the school run.
We have Regional Co-ordinators in post in five regions of the UK. They are looking for project ideas, so if you live or work in these areas and have an idea, get in touch!
You can register your community here.
Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton
Bernard Kennedy
bernard.kennedy@livingstreets.org.uk
Doncaster and Rotherham
Jim Shaw
jim.shaw@livingstreets.org.uk
Sunderland, Newcastle and Gateshead
Peter Riddell
peter.riddell@livingstreets.org.uk
London: Barking and Dagenham
Jack Skillen (Fitter for Walking Project Manager)
jack.skillen@livingstreets.org.uk
tel: 020 73774912 / 07590 048493
London: Redbridge
Tom Platt
tom.platt@livingstreets.org.uk
tel: 020 73774917 / 07595 062799
West Midlands
Hema Kasi-Patel
hema.kasi-patel@livingstreets.org.uk
tel: 07595 781875
For all project enquiries not related to a specific region in the list above, please contact the Project Manager, Jack Skillen (see details at London above).
Fitter for Walking is part of a portfolio of projects being delivered by Travel Actively, a consortium of leading walking, cycling and health organisations committed to providing opportunities for 1.8 million people to become physically active through active travel by 2012.
Funded through the Big Lottery Fund's Wellbeing fund, the consortium partners are British Cycling, CTC, Campaign for Better Transport, Cycling England, Living Streets, London Cycling Campaign, the National Heart Forum, the National Obesity Forum, the Ramblers, Sustrans and Walk England.