What is 'Walk to School'?
The Walk to School Campaign is run by the charity Living Streets and asks parents, pupils and teachers to think about their journey to and from school and the many benefits of making it on foot.About 50% of children don't walk to school regularly and more and more pupils are being driven to school in a car. This trend is contributing to reduced physical activity and increased childhood obesity, urban congestion and air pollution.
What do we do
Each year, we organise two nationally recognised events:
International Walk to School Month (October 2008) and national Walk to School Week (2009).
We want people to see walking to school as an everyday activity, so we also run the WoW (Walk Once a Week) scheme which rewards pupils with a collectible enamel badge if they walk to school regularly.
Walk to School works!
The Walk to School Campaign has the support of over 65% of local authorities and regularly reaches more than two million pupils and their carers.
Promotion of the ‘Walk to School' campaign does attract media attention not just locally, but nationally, and so brings the message to a much wider audience.
