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Walk Leicester Project

Join the DfT-funded Walk Leicester Project led by Sara Coy, encouraging active travel through group walks in Leicester. Receive free pedometer, familiarize with local routes, and boost confidence in walking. Parents' walking groups from schools, improve walking habits, and monitor progress. Engage in weekly walks led by volunteers and enjoy city and green spaces.

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Walk Leicester Project

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  1. Walk Leicester Project Sara Coy Active Travel Training Coordinator (Walking)

  2. Walk Leicester Project • DfT funded until March 2020 • Group walks in Leicester (public & community) • Encourage people to be more active • Free pedometer (aim for 10,000 steps /day) • Familiarise with local walking routes • Sustainable travel • encourage more short journeys on foot

  3. Starting parents’ walking groups from schools • Motivate parents to walk more • Improve confidence to walk 1.5 miles. • Encourage parents to work towards their recommended 10,000 steps / day (free pedometer) • Monitor parents at 6 months after start of programme – has their travel behaviour changed?

  4. Our offer • ‘Buy-in’ from parents prior to setting up the walks programme • We lead a group walk once/week for 4 weeks. • Volunteer walk leader mini-training session (2.5 hours, classroom) • Parents walk as a self-led friendship group thereafter

  5. Pilot – Whitehall Primary SchoolParent’s walking group Timeline Safe Happy Families event Started group walks for parents Weekly group walks for 4 weeks 9.15am for 45 minutes (1.5 miles), steady pace. Starting and finishing at school. Walks led by myself / trained volunteers Local routes, city and green space Volunteer Walk Leader mini training session for parents Walks still continue, led by parents • November 2017 • January 2018 • February 2018 • May 2018

  6. Feedback I hardly walk, so this has got me and my family to become more active during the weekends. ..without the group I would not go for walk… good to chat with other parents too and hit my 10,000 steps! • .. I made loads of new friends who have helped support me when I have struggled and it has got me of of the house. This is a proper walk and I feel as if I have had a workout. I was always at the back of the group… I have now moved up a place. This group is amazing, I love it… first I was really slow but [I’ve] now built so much confidence in myself.

  7. Thank you

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