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Hearts & Heritage Walk - Sunday 10 October, London

Hearts and Heritage Walk — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:17:17 GMT

Are you looking for a great walking event?
The Royal Parks Foundation have created just this!

Taking place on the same day as the world famous Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon, this is a fabulous walk following a stunning 13.1 mile trail, taking in the beautiful scenery of four of London’s Royal Parks (St James’s Park, The Green Park, Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park) as well as passing some of the City’s most iconic buildings and landmarks such as Wellington Arch, Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and the Albert Memorial. Created to suit everyone, the Hearts & Heritage Walk comprises two waves; choose the “history & heritage” wave to learn about the amazing 500-year history of the Parks or “hearts”, our dating wave, to find that special someone for future expeditions. Why not raise money for a charity of your choice or for The Royal Parks Foundation and support some of the amazing projects currently taking place within London’s eight Royal Parks. Is there a better way to spend your Sunday morning on 10.10.10?

Visit www.royalparkshalf.com/the_walk

Hearts & Heritage Walk - Sunday 10 October, London

SGeraghty — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:58:56 GMT

Do you want to know how many calories you burn while walking?

ChrisHowe — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:17:03 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am recruiting participants for my final year research project investigating individuals energy expenditure while walking. To take part you would just need to come to the Kingston University Sports Science Laboratories once to carry out a 30 minute incremental walking test on the treadmill.

My study is focusing on individuals with a BMI of 25 and over so please click the link below to see if you can take part. I will then be able to let you know how many calories your body burns while exercising at different paces and advice on how you can use this information in your daily activities.

http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx?Tag=Lose+weight

I really hope that you are interested in taking part, please do not hesitate to contact me for more information.

Chris Howe

[email protected]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=283311954757

PERS 3 Walking audit tool demo on Youtube

AdamDavies — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:55:03 GMT

Hello

PERS (Pedestrian Environment Review System) was co-developed by Transport for London and TRL and has been used to assess walkability extensively around London and the UK (over 200km of street assessed).

We recently launched a new version of PERS (v3) which has built in GIS, photo georeferencing and automatic quick win generation.

You can watch a demo of the PERS 3 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32uu1kB-d8s

Let me know what you think?

Can you help with a survey about pedestrian safety?

Admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:02:32 GMT

Can you spare 5 minutes to complete a survey about pedestrian safety as part of an MSc dissertation? If so, please follow this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=1mkszPTjKA9ZFqkNulvrDQ_3d_3d

Transport facilities – a major tourism promoter

GLORIA31 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:11:25 GMT

Apart from the negative image and the poor quality of accommodation, the lack of cheap and efficient transport facilities have hampered the development of tourism in certain countries. For example, of the nearly 3000 million people that traveled around the world, India could lure a mere 0.40 per cent, when including the nationals from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Even among the South East Asian nations, few people actually wanted to visit the Indian subcontinent. Poor marketing efforts from the part of the tourism department and a negative image of the country as a whole are the main reasons cited for such a situation. A major image makeover exercise is needed at short notice.

At 3 percent, the annual growth rate in the tourist traffic is well below the world average of 10 percent. However, there are certain exceptions with the approximately 25 to 30 percent growth rate attained by countries such as Sri Lanka and Thailand. It becomes evident from India’s unsatisfactory performance that all is not well with the tourism industry in India and more so with the tourism infrastructure, especially the transportation facilities.

India has sent back more unsatisfied tourists in the years gone by on account of the high air fares, congestion, non-availability of air bookings, complicated travel formalities, lack of space in the domestic carriers and the non-availability of train bookings at short notice. These facts are further corroborated by the findings of the surveys conducted by the scores of market research agencies.

When considering the management approach of the Hotels in London England as a whole could learn much from the mistakes made by the Indian tourism department. Almost all the prominent hotels in London have a multicultural employee background, and these hotels have made significant strides in changing their approaches to customer management. Learning from the mistakes committed by the tourism departments of countries like India has helped the hotels in London to make great strides.

New technologies

Veronica — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:16:49 GMT

I am very excited about my new mobile phone. I can now track all my walks using the My Tracks application, I can count the calories I consume and burn and it even has a built-in pedometer! I can see that these new applications will have great appeal for anyone interested in 'measuring' walking, especially the younger generation.. I'm bowled over by the new technology and would love to know your views....

Walk into a new job with Living Streets

Rich — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:57:10 GMT

Living Streets is the national charity that stands up for pedestrians. With our supporters we work to create safe, attractive and enjoyable streets, where people want to walk.

If you share this vision and would like to know more please visit our website. www.livingstreets.org.uk Vacancies include:

Business Development Specialist
Head of Delivery & Development
Walk to School Manager
Walking Works Manager
Project Marketing Coordinator

Applications close Friday 3 July 2009

Road Safety Christmas Cards

Admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:26:27 GMT

Lollipopman Christmas cards, with comical road safety images, are now available from the Lollipopman website. Visit www.lollipopman.co.uk .

The superhero of the highway also stars in two children's books, which make top Christmas presents! Take a look at www.lollipopman.co.uk to find out more.

Pops Away!

Phil Sheppard
Baa Code Books

Way To Go!

carl.pittam — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:44:44 GMT

Sustrans has prepared a detailed repsonse to Boris Johnson's Transport Policy document Way To Go! It endorses Walk England's submission and can be found here

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/webfiles/london/Way_to_go_Sustrans_response.pdf

Cheers

carl

Going for a long walk in a short space.

Geraldine Kelly — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:03:06 GMT

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking for mazes and/or labyrinths that have been installed in public spaces, particularly in green parks. This is with a view to creating more, so any experience of how they were constructed, and how were they received, will be gratefully received.

Ministry of Food.....and physical activity!

Gary Cliffe — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:58:04 GMT

I hadn't made the connection with Jamie's recent attempt to get people cooking with encouraging physical activity until I read this on his website...see the last paragraph.

Perhaps there is a link to be made somewhere??

Rotherham Food Centre

The Ministry of Food Centre in Rotherham is the starting point for Jamie’s campaign.

It’s somewhere for local people to go to learn the basics of cooking and get friendly advice on recipes, ingredients shopping, nutrition, equipment, local and seasonal food, and how to make good simple meals on a tight budget.

Every lunchtime there are cookery demonstrations, hosted by the two lovely ladies who run the show, Lisa Taylor and Jane Pond, or one of their team of great volunteers.

The Centre is now signing up people for cooking classes using simple Ministry of Food recipes. There are three slots every day, and they’re open to anyone, individuals and community groups, who want to learn the basics: chopping, frying, roasting and baking.

The local team of Health Trainers are also based at the Centre and are there to offer help and information about things like giving up smoking, taking more exercise and dealing with stress.

Lazy man walks his dog from his car?!

Ruth — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:17:16 GMT

I've just read the story about a man who walks his dog by holding the lead out of his car window as he drives along and the dog follows...he's quoted as saying 'he doesn't want to get wet when its raining!'

Is this the challenge we're all up against? Is this for real, or is it a publicity stunt because he was recently voted as 'Great North Bum' by his family through a local radio competition?

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Lazy_man_walks_dog_in_his_car&in_article_id=355843&in_page_id=2

Has anyone else heard any similarly scary stories related to walking, or the lack of it?

wanted to reply to electric car thread but got this below!!

irvken — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:54:05 GMT

Access Denied: Reply Permission Denied

Either the forum does not exist or you do not have permissions to reply to posts within the forum.

Does Olympic success inspire people to walk?

Admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:55:51 GMT

Well, the Beijing Olympic games are well underway (and I for one haven't been able to resist watching some of the competitions), but what impact do these huge scale sporting events have on walking?

Does watching elite athletes inspire people to simply try and achieve their everyday recommended amount of 5 x 30min a week?

Are you involved in Olympic themed walking projects? Will you be planning anything for London 2012?

These shoes aren't made for walking!

Ruth — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:13:42 GMT

I'm interested in the barriers to people walking, and more and more I find that people are worried about what to wear on their feet and also what type of bag to carry, that still looks good but is easy to carry.

I have noticed that there is an emerging market for shoes that make walking easier (I was sent a link this morning by a friend for fold-up shoes that slip into a handbag for when your feet get sore...but what do you do with your other shoes if this happens when you're outside already!?). I therefore wondered if people have found any reasonably priced bags and other items that encourage people to walk?

There are lots of fun and stylish clothes and bags that encourage running (there are IPOD trainers etc), and I think we need to start a revolution with other large design/clothing companies to encourage walking (without looking naff!).

Imaginative walking events

Ruth — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:01:43 GMT

What events have you held to promote walking that are original and exciting? I'd love to hear about them and share them here with others who are currently organising their events for this year.

One great idea for getting publicity and participation is to link your walking event to existing important dates in the diary. In Kingston, they held an event on Father's Day recently:

17th June 2008: Father’s Day Treasure Hunt

Father’s Day saw families setting off from St Paul’s Church in Hook on a trail of clues that took them around the quiet roads and green spaces of Chessington.

The event was designed to promote the Walking for Health programme and to encourage sustainable forms of transport. Walkers were rewarded with free healthy snacks, face painting, entry into a raffle for healthy prizes and a stunt bike display, which even saw Debra the Zebra getting very close to the action.

The feedback was very positive - one participant described the best thing about the walking was ‘being with mum and dad’.

Shared Use

Alexandra Rook — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:54:36 GMT

We are all walkers and some of us cycle too. Why is it that the two activities seem to be so incompatible in this country compared to Europe? We have over-engineered segregated cycle tracks which walkers wander into; in Northern Europe walkers and cyclists respect each other's space. I doubt it's a design solution that will solve it; we need to change behaviour - much harder to do! Any suggestions for resolving conflicts?

Mayor announces £6 million to revitalise London's parks and green spaces

Gary Cliffe — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:08:34 GMT

Interesting to see how we access this............................

8. Mayor announces £6 million to revitalise London's parks and green spaces

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The Mayor of London has today announced a £6 million funding package to clean up and improve London's rundown green spaces with Londoners getting the final say on which areas will benefit. The money for this programme comes from further savings made from the former administration's publicity budget following the scrapping of The Londoner newspaper. Whilst many of London's parks, commons, heaths and public gardens are attractive and welcoming, there are many green spaces in the capital that are not being used because they are shabby, and people feel unsafe in them. The 'Priority Parks' funding - promised by the Mayor in his election manifesto

- will help to regenerate the most deserving of London's green spaces across the capital over the next four years, providing a boost to local communities and making neighbourhoods safer.

Focus: England

Tags: England, Environment, Communities, Public Sector

Web:

http://xpressdigest.org.uk/2008/06/24/mayor-announces-6-million-to-revitalise-londons-parks-and-green-spaces/?=xpdmail

22 June 2008

Calorie Calculations

Stacy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:14:00 GMT

I'm looking for an equation I can use to calculate calories burnt whilst walking, assuming I know the time or distance travelled, speed and weight of the walker.

Many thanks!

Post Launch!

Veronica — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:59:57 GMT

We at Walk England were all delighted with the launch on 18th June and thrilled that not one, but two Ministers came and gave us their support! It was great to see so many friends and colleagues too. We will be very busy over the coming weeks building the networks and meeting up with all the people who have expressed an interest to work with us. We will keep you posted with news and events from the world of walking and look forward to hearing your comments and contributing to your discussions. Remember to vote for your top priority for walking!