Walk England
Walk England is an organisation that brings together everyone working to promote walking. The aim is to encourage and support more people to choose to walk in England as a way to be healthy, travel and relax.
The Walk England website provides information for the public about walking, and a networking facility for professionals whose remit encompasses walking. It links all the sectors that have, or should have, walking at their heart: transport, health, education, recreation and sport, urban design and the environment.
This is the first website to work as a central hub for walking that covers all the main six sectors. For professionals, the website provides clear and concise summaries of what is working best, links to useful organisations, and evidence-based expert advice. Each sector has a brief description of its main links to walking as an aid to those who are forming new cross-sector partnerships, therefore improving understanding across disciplines.
The website has a ‘walking network’ that people can join, which is currently being developed to have a regional aspect. This enables members to contact each other easily, post questions, share expertise and experience and also complement existing and new physical networks in their local areas.
For the public, the website is an online gateway to information about walking; getting started, joining groups, walking festivals and information and links for those who want greater walking challenges.
Walk England has an aspiration to further develop the social networking facility utilising new technologies, develop a database for walking routes across England and support the online networks through the hosting of walking network events in each region of England.
As part of the consortium Walk England are delivering the Walk4life website providing a single, free, simple to use place to find a short walk close to where people live.
Walk England is a social enterprise working in partnerships across the country to create local opportunities for people to choose to walk, to walk more often, to walk to more places, and to feel safe while doing so.
External link: Walk4Life Website
External link: Walk England website
