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Get involved in Walk Week this May, taking place between the 17th and 26th, and help celebrate walks in Nottinghamshire, get fit and enjoy a range of activities throughout the week. It’s free to take part, and every participant will receive a free gift and details of future events to encourage walking in the future. Try your hand at Nordic walking, rambling, leisure walks, or if you’re a new mum, get back into fitness and shape by attending a ‘Pushy Mothers’ taster session. The events are aimed at all ages. On Wednesday there is a walk to work day, ‘Walk on Wednesday’, which encourages walking as a way of building exercise into our busy daily lives, and encouraging a healthy workforce. It’s been proved that fitter employees take less sickness absence and have lower levels of stress. By encouraging walking to the workplace, companies can also free up car parking spaces, and help save the environment.
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Some of the things to look forward to are: 18th May
Help raise money for the National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease with a Sponsored walk in the woods in Sherwood Forest. Starts at 1.30pm. For further details contact Joanne Hughes tel: 0115 8789158. Go Wild Walk at Nottingham University. Join the members of the biology department for a free flora and fauna walk looking at the wilder side of life in the meadows and woodlands. Meet at 2pm at the Millennium Garden. For further information and directions, visit the Friends of University Park website. 19th May
Old Market Square will be the place to be with a Health and Wellbeing roadshow to celebrate the launch of a new City walking pack 19th - 23rd May
National Walk to School Week - Is your school taking part? 20th May
Take part in a free Nordic Walking taster session at the Wollaton library between 11.30am and 3.30am. 21st May
Get your trainers at the ready, it's Walk to Work Day - Is your employer taking part? To pledge to take part and recieve your free gift please e-mail vanessa.clements@perfectmotion.org 22nd May
New Mum? Get back into fitness and shape by attending a Pushy Mothers taster session. Meet at Woodthorpe Park car park at 2pm. (and bring the buggy!) 25th May
Fun for all the family at Rushcliffe Country Park with beginner orienteering and Nordic Walking taster sessions. There is a short course at Rushcliffe country park - drop in any time between 10.30am and 11.30am at the visitor's centre (near the car park). No need to book, it's all free and every participant will get a walk week gift. 26th May
Take the family along to the valuable wildlife and historical site at Teversal Trail and Pastures. There will also be a free festival happening for all the family including arts and crafts between 10am and 3pm. See www.teversaltrails.com for more details. If you would like more ideas on creating your own event, or more information on ‘Walk on Wednesday’ then send an email to info@walkweek.org for a free pack that will include promotional materials to display and distribute to staff. You will also receive a free gift for taking part. The ideas are endless, for example, a ‘walker’s breakfast’ or a guided lunchtime walk (we’ll give you more ideas in the pack). You could also work together with neighbouring companies to organise an event. Walk Week is organised by a team of partners including Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham University Hospitals, Catherine Hughes (Nordic walking instructor and personal trainer), Primary Care Trusts, Get Moving Nottingham, Shape Up Notts!, Nottingham Trent University, Broxtowe Borough Council and the Big Wheel. For more information please contact vanessa.clements@perfectmotion.org or call 01159 258777.
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