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Promoting walking

Walking is the most inclusive, sociable  and sustainable means of transport, the closest thing to perfect exercise and the best way to access the outdoors.


Photo: Richard Mann

These pages cover our work to promote everyday local walking for health, leisure and transport to everyone, of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, in towns and cities as well as in the countryside. To find out more, use the links on the left, read an overview of our work, or see what's new below.

If you're looking for help, advice and support to do more walking yourself, try our First steps section aimed at people new to walking.

What's new

Get Walking Keep Walking up and running in Birmingham

An exciting new Ramblers project that helps people in big cities do more regular local walking to improve their health and well-being is now up and running in Birmingham and is soon to expand to other English cities. The project, aimed at people who aren't active enough for good health, provides free locally based 12-week walking programmes combining information and motivation with led walks and other activities
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Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund, Get Walking will launch in South London (Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark) and East London (Hackney and Tower Hamlets) early in 2008 and will extend to Manchester and Sheffield later in the year.

Get Walking in Birmingham
Read more about the overall project.

Little Legs still making strides in South London

Little Legs Big Strides, a walking project especially for pre-school children and their parents, launches several new programmes in South London this Autumn. Read more.

Funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund

Hillwalking with Forth Valley Street Sport

We're helping young people from disadvantaged and problem backgrounds through a hillwalking project in Alloa, one of Scotland's most deprived areas. Read more.