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Talking Space: Learning from the Walk Notts Festival – Jessica H and Marzena from BCVS
Below are key points from the Talking Space: Learning from the Walk Notts Festival in embedding walking and wheeling into everyday lives from Jessica H and Marzena from BCVS section. Jessica Hardwick and Marzena Karp-Singh highlighted how partnership working in Bassetlaw is helping families in Manton access support, activities and green spaces in ways that…
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Talking Space: Learning from the Walk Notts Festival – Terri Elliott
Below are some key points taken from Terri Elliott’s section from the Talking Space: Learning from the Walk Notts Festival in embedding walking and wheeling into everyday lives that was held on Tuesday 21st July. Terri highlighted how a School Active Travel Project at Standhill Infants used walking and scooting to improve road safety, health,…
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Walking Through Winter December 2025 – January 2026
This year Walk Derbyshire is collaborating with Walk Notts to support people to walk more as part of their everyday lives, especially during the Winter season. If you want to get involved and support your community to get walking and active during the Winter months, follow us on social media and share your own posts…
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Six short walks in Carlton series launched
The fantastic collaboration between the community and the active workforce continues in Carlton with the launch of the ‘Six Short Walks in Carlton leaflet’. The leaflet features six accessible routes developed by local residents, and emerged from the community who came together previously to develop the ‘Getting out and about in Carlton’ (Carlton becnhmapping) leaflet.…
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The Social Value of Physical Activity
The Social Value of participatory sport and physical activity Sport England’s latest research, published October 2024, finds that community sport and physical activity generates a staggering £107.2 billion in annual social value across the UK, highlighting its crucial role in national health and wellbeing and the importance of our work at Active Derbyshire and Active…
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Volunteer Focus – Walk Notts Strategic Partnership Meeting
We know how important the volunteer workforce is in relation to enabling people to be active in a way that works for them. The walking workforce like many others, relies on volunteers to flourish. But Volunteers and volunteer recruitment is not free. It takes time, organisation and commitment to manage a successful volunteer programme. During…
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Walk Notts Strategic Partnership Meeting 16/1/24
In this meeting we heard from Andy Brooks from Peak Running about the fantastic Myth Busting FAQ’s we’ve produced in collaboration with Peak Running, Walk Notts and Walk Derbyshire. These have been created to make it a little easier for you to build the confidence needed to lead people to walk. Read them now, using…
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An insight into Physical Activity Behaviour in Nottingham City
Scott Hartley, from our Insight partners, Press Red present’s an Insight into the Pysical Activity Behaviour of people in Nottingham City. This Insight has been created using Active Lives Survey data and the Census data and id especially interesting as it’s the first time we’ve had a chance to properly analyse physical activity behaviour pre,…
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Getting out and about in Carlton
In collaboration with the local community, we’ve created a map of many local amenities in Carlton Hill, Gedling. In Gedling 44% of residents don’t own a car, so it is hoped that by informing people where they can find Benches, Toilets, Defibrilators, Green Space, Car Parks and Bus Routes, they will be able to walk…
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Get moving from Screen to Green
Today is Mental Health Awareness Day and by no coincidence a new local area app has launched which aims to give people a boost. The GreenSpace NG app aims to help boost the health and wellbeing of people across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, by encouraging them to explore more green spaces in their community and beyond.…
