THE UK CHARITY FOR EVERYDAY WALKING
It's National Walking Month!
Join our annual celebration of walking.
With many of us appreciating the chance to get out for a walk more than ever, this National Walking Month is all about keeping our daily exercise fresh, interesting - and most of all - safe.
How will you walk this May?
Walking and coronavirus
As the UK enters lockdown in response to the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak, the rules still allow for us to leave the house once a day for exercise.
Our Communications and Media Manager, Kath Shaw, outlines how we can use this opportunity safely.
Distancing needs space!
Cities around the world are reorganising their streets, reallocating road space so people can walk & cycle safely.
Now a new DfT ruling has signalled that councils in England can follow suit.
Use our simple online form to write to your councillors and ask them to make walking safer where you live.
Pavement parking - the beginning of the end?
New proposals to tackle pavement parking across England have been laid out by the UK government, with a public consultation to follow in the summer.
Scotland has banned it. Could England be next?
Find out the latest, and join our campaign to protect pavements for people.
News: Government considers nationwide pavement parking ban
Walking and health
Human beings are designed to be active, but the average UK adult spends around nine hours a day sitting.
Launched to coincide with our National Walking Summit in Manchester, our new report looks at the links between walking and public health.
Walking is man's best medicine
A generation ago, 70% of us walked to school – now it’s less than half.
We want to reverse this decline. We want children to be energised and empowered, and to make walking to school their natural choice.
And we know just how to do it.
More about what we do
Press releases
18.05.2020
Local authorities urged to make space around schools
09.05.2020
£2 billion package to create new era for cycling and walking
01.05.2020
Keep your daily exercise fresh during National Walking Month
28.04.2020
Scottish Government announces £10m funding for temporary active travel infrastructure
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