THE UK CHARITY FOR EVERYDAY WALKING
Make school streets safer
Our schools have to be safe for staff, pupils and families - and this includes the streets around them. So it is vital that our councils consider removing motor traffic from outside school gates
Email your council today and ask them to use powers they already have.
WOW is back for 20/21!
Want to be part of the pupil-led scheme that has helped thousands of schools tackle road safety issues, pollution, congestion and childhood inactivity?
WOW, our flagship year-round walk to school challenge, is back with brand new resources for primary schools for the 2020/21 year starting in September.
What are you waiting form? Join this national movement of walking children!
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.
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
covid-19 - our offices are closed
The health and wellbeing of our staff and stakeholders remains our priority during these unprecedented times. Our offices are therefore temporarily closed.
In the meantime, we are working hard to raise the profile of walking, supporting staff to work remotely, and working with all our partners to ensure our project work is effective from a distance.
We continue to monitor the Covid-19 situation and follow government and health guidelines within England, Scotland and Wales as they develop, and hope to return to our offices when it is safe to do so.
Join our campaigns to improve the walking environment
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
28.05.2020
New survey reveals parent concern over street safety
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
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