Living Streets
Living Streets is the national charity which campaigns for better streets and public spaces for people on foot.
Formed in 1929 as the Pedestrians’ association, they have grown to include a network of 98 branches and affiliated groups, 35 local authorities’ members and a growing number of corporate supporters.
As well as working to influence policy on a national and local level, they also carry out a range of practical work to train professionals in good street design and enable local communities to improve their neighbourhoods.
They also run high profile campaigns to encourage people to increase their walking levels, and realise their vision of vibrant, living streets across the UK.
As part of the consortium, Living Streets is delivering the Fitter For Walking project in five regions and two national awareness schemes.
Fitter for walking
Fitter for walking works with local residents in Wolverhampton, London, Yorkshire and the Humber, North East and North West to improve their walking environment and in turn increase the number of people walking in their communities.
The scheme works in partnership with councils with the greatest health needs to empower people to make changes to their environments and give them the tools to promote walking.
This will benefit 25,500 people over the four years, as well as including training and tools for professionals beyond the project areas who are also hoping to implement similar projects.
Walking Works
Walking Works is a national campaign to encourage people to walk all or some of their journey to work. The campaign targets both employees and employers by demonstrating the health, wellbeing and other benefits of regular walking.
Living Streets works closely in partnership with target employers across England to help them promote walking to their own staff and evaluate the impact of the campaign. 11,000 people will benefit from this scheme.
Walk to School
Walk to School is a national campaign to encourage children to pick up the walking habit early in life. Already established in primary schools, the campaign will now move into secondary schools through a targeted information programme.
Through social marketing and incentive schemes, the projects will provide information tailored to teenage tastes.
A citizenship project works to encourage pupils in certain schools to think about how they can improve the local environment and promote walking in their school. This programme will reach more than 87,000 pupils.
External link: Living Streets website
External link: Living Streets projects pages
