Promoting walking: an overview

Walking projects

England

Get Walking Day is on 30 May every year -- 30/5, to remind people they should be walking at least 30 minutes a day five days a week. We are working with a wide variety of partners to build this into a major national awareness day for walking. Many Ramblers Groups offer easy walks run by local volunteers and walks aimed at people with disabilities such as visually impaired walkers. More about walking projects in England

Scotland

We're helping to set up new groups aimed at people who now want to move on from health walks and other beginners' projects, and supporting existing volunteers to provide short easy walks. We're also looking at ways to promote walking through the 2012 Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games

• More about promoting walking in Scotland

Wales

Our Cerrig Camu/Stepping Stones project, run in conjunction with Walking the way to Health, provides easy, friendly walks to fill the gap between very short health walks and more challenging rural walks. We've also promoting 30 minute walks for health at major events like the Eisteddfod.

• More about Cerrig Camu/Stepping Stones

Information and promotion

We are Britain's leading provider of information about walking and walking opportunities.

Our comprehensive online information includes a First steps section aimed at people new to walking.

• More about our information and publicity work
• First steps
• Walking information pages

Policy and research

Our promoting walking strategy aims to halt and ultimately to reverse the decline in overall walking.

Through policy and research, lobbying and awareness raising, we aim to persuade funders, local authorities, the health service and government departments to commit more resources to creating a more civilised and liveable Britain where more people choose to walk.

• More about policy and research