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So
there is no walk in your neighbourhood! Why not start your own? It is
not as hard as you think and there is support from the Healthy Walking
Manager, who has done it before!
Things to do
• First it will be worth talking to the Healthy Walking Manager,
who can be contacted via the Contacts page.
• Talk to your family, friends and neighbours,
to find out the level of interest. You will probable be surprised at
the number who are interested in taking a walk.
• From this group try and find someone who will
help you as another Walk Leader, it will help to spread the load.
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Train as a Health Walk Leader. This is a 6 hour training session which
includes a practice walk. These session normally are run in one day
but the can be run over 2 evenings. There is also a need to do a First
Aid course which takes about 4 hours, this is a always useful as you
never know when you may need it. Most people enjoy doing both these
courses as for most it is something different
• There is a need to select a walk route. Health
Walks are designed to take between 30 minutes and 1 hour, which means
you need a route of about 1 to 1½ miles in length. It is also
important to have reasonably good terrain, particularly when you start
as people of all abilities will want to come with you. Try and end some
where you can have a ‘cuppa’, there is nothing better to
end with a chat and a drink.
This is not as bad as it sounds. Why? Because, you know your neighbourhood,
the paths and the parks, use what you know. Again talk it through with
the Healthy Walking Manager who will be able to help you.
• Choose a day and a time to start the walk, this
must be to suit you, after all it is you who will be running the walk.
• Then get the message out, advertise, posters
in the local shops and supermarkets, your doctor surgeries, community
magazines and notice boards, some people have even done leaflet drops
to local homes, but above all continue to talk to people and ask them
to come along, there is nothing better than the personal approach.
• Lastly do the first walk, you will not be on
your own, and the Healthy Walking Manger makes every attempt to be with
you for this the most important first walk. There may well be other
Health Walk Leaders there to support you.
...GO
ON GIVE IT A GO!
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