This simple swap helps be active as part of your routine, and it’s a great mood booster. It can help with maintaining a healthy weight, and reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke.
And it’s good for nature too. Swapping the car for walking or cycling reduces your carbon footprint substantially, not to mention improving the air quality for everyone!
Which short car journey will you commit to swapping this week?
Get tips and make a pledge
Trip to work
If you’re walking to work, you could wear your usual work clothes with a comfy pair of shoes and change shoes when you get to work
Taking the kids to school
Walking gives a chance for quality time together to notice surroundings and talk about the day ahead
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Seeing friends
Walking with friends and loved ones is a lovely way to connect when you are having a busy week and would struggle to meet up for longer
Going to the shops
If you can’t walk all the way, can you park the car a short distance away and walk the rest?
Find joy in the journey...
MyJourney has lots of fantastic initiatives for school run fun and tips on walking locally to you.
Sustrans has top tips for walking and wheeling to school.
Download a family walk to school kit from Living Streets.
- Spending time in green space or bringing nature into your everyday life can help your mental wellbeing.
- Try spotting wildlife in your local area and signs of the changing seasons.
- You can discover greener walks and connect with nature with Go Jauntly and our nature recovery pages.
Use the Active 10 app
Active 10 tracks how much and how fast you have walked, and gives you goals to work towards to keep things interesting.
Find places to walk and groups to walk with
- MyJourney Hampshire has plenty of helpful information for walking including local walking groups.
- A huge selection of walks, from one to 100 miles, are available from the Countryside Service.
- Wellbeing Walks runs regular walking groups locally.
Explore further
You can also report a problem with roads, footpaths and verges.
See what Hampshire County Council is doing to improve the routes you walk and cycle.
You can find lots of advice online for how to stick to healthy habits
and keep going!
