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Best Foot Forward Guided Health Walks Best Foot Forward Guided health walks Health & Wellbeing What is Best Foot Forward? Why attend a walk? A weekly programme of guided • It’s a chance to meet local people health walks in open spaces around and make friends Nottingham, funded by Nottingham • Walking is a safe way to improve City Council. your health and fitness Best Foot Forward offers different types of walks, so that you can find a How much does it cost? walk that is suitable for you. • All walks are free There are usually two walk leaders present, one leads from the front and Who is this service for? the other follows at the back of the • Anyone who feels it is for them. group. So, all walkers can find their Children under 14 must be own pace. accompanied by an adult. We do not Best Foot Forward is accredited by allow dogs (except guide dogs) or Walking for Health. smoking on any of our walks. The walks offer the opportunity to improve your health, make new What Do I need? friends, have fun and get to know your No special equipment is required local environment. however we advise you to: There is a brief health questionnaire to • wear suitable comfortable shoes or complete before your first walk. trainers which give your feet some support What are the benefits of joining in • clothing to suit the climate (e.g. with Best Foot Forward? waterproofs). Walking can: • It is a good idea to bring some • Make you feel good water, especially in hot weather • Give you more energy • If necessary, a snack and suncream. • Help you sleep better • Reduce blood pressure Our contact details If you want to find out more, please • Help to manage weight contact us: • Help you reduce stress t 0115 844 0011 e [email protected] or visit our website at: www.ageuknotts.org.uk Walk Times: Grade All times given are the times the walks Easy - Walks between 20 minutes set off. Please allow time to register and one hour. Good surfaces on a and if it is your first walk to introduce fairly flat route. They are suitable for yourself to the leaders and fill in a newcomers to physical activity. brief questionnaire. These can be sent Moderate - Walks between 45 to you to complete beforehand on minutes and 1hr .May include uneven request or you can register on line. surfaces (across grass/fields) some (see below). slight inclines and a few steps. May make your heart work a little bit Walking for Health harder. www.walkingforhealth.org.uk Hard - Walks between 45 minutes A national organisation run by The and 1½ hours. These walks are a little Ramblers and MacMillan Cancer more challenging and may include Support. Walking for Health is steeper slopes, steps, uneven surfaces England’s largest network of health and stiles. walks with over 400 active schemes, helping people across the country “[Best Foot Forward] lead a more active lifestyle. Go to the helps hugely with website to loneliness, keeping • View our calendar of walks in touch with people • Register for our walks and feeling fitter. We enjoy it as they are • Find other health walks across the such a lovely group of people.” country - Mr and Mrs Jeske from • Learn more about the health Nottingham benefits of walking *Due to confidentiality reasons, the names and/or images of the subjects have been changed. For more information on any of our services, please call us on 0115 844 0011 or visit us at www.ageuknotts.org.uk Mondays Bestwood Walk A walk offering a variety of routes around the Bestwood area. All the walks are in the Green Flag areas of Bestwood including some in Southglade Park. Meeting place: Southglade Access Centre, Southglade Rd, Bestwood Estate NG5 5GU Time: 1:15pm Woodthorpe Grange Park Getting there: By bus - Brown 16 (Padstow Rd), Brown 17 (Gorse Court Walk Stop). Parking - On the Southglade site th The Grange is a 19 century Grade Grade: Easy to moderate II listed manor which sits amidst a 1 and 3 miles mix of landscapes, including formal Walk length: gardens. There is also an innovative Duration: 40-90 minutes train sculpture and ‘sunken garden’ Terrain: Fairly flat with water feature. Meeting place: Sherwood Community Centre, Mansfield Rd. NG5 3FN Time: 10:30am Getting there: By bus - Lime 56, 57, 58, 59 (Magnus Road), Purple 88, 89 (Sherwood Manor stop). Parking - “I feel that walking has made Community Centre Car Park. me feel much fitter. It lifts my moods because I suffer [from] Grade: Moderate depression, I enjoy the company Walk length: 1.5 - 2 miles of the other walkers and [the] Duration: 45 minutes walk leaders.” Terrain: Varied inclines and some - Ashwin from Hyson Green steep steps Tuesdays Wednesdays Nuthall Railway Walk City Parks Walk Part of the old Great Northern Line, A walk along the boundaries of this is a new footpath which passes Sneinton & St Ann’s passing through fields of barley, rape seed and corn. Victoria Park conservation area, King Stop halfway for a coffee at Three Edward Park, Stonebridge city farm Ponds Pub at Nuthall. and may include Green’s Windmill Meeting place: Snapewood (depending on the walkers’ ability). Community Centre, Snape Wood Meeting place: Victoria Leisure Centre, Rd.NG6 7GH (opposite St John’s Family Bath St NG1 1DB Centre). Time: 10:30am Time: 10:30am Getting there: By bus - Lilac 25, Getting there: By bus - Yellow 68,69 27 Local link 9 (Southwell Rd stop) (Corben Gardens stop) Blue 39 (Roden St stop). Parking - Grade: Easy to moderate Nottingham Arena Car Park (£3.40 for 4hrs) Blue Badge holders (4 hrs, Free). Walk length: 3 miles Grade: Moderate to Hard Duration: 2 hours (with a halfway stop) Walk length: 2 miles Terrain: Fairly flat (may include a walk Duration: 45 - 90 minutes across fields or woods if it is dry, for Terrain: Varied (steep hill to Green’s those who wish to) Windmill) Wednesdays - Thursdays monthly Forest & Arboretum Walk Strelley Woodland & A varied walk around ‘The Forest’ following established pathways, with Countryside Walk extensive views of the city from lovely This walk runs on the 1st wooded areas. Wednesday of each month. Taking in Meeting place: Inside Mary Potter the stones of Monks Way, Strelley Hall Health Centre (North Entrance) and All Saints Church. A path through Gregory Boulevard NG7 5JD Oldmoor Wood takes us into open Time: 10:30am fields, before continuing up Catstone Hill to the underground reservoir. Getting there: By bus - Turquoise 80 (Claypole Rd stop). By tram - NET Tram Meeting place: Broad Oak Pub, Strelley (Forest Tram Stop). Parking - Forest village NG8 6PD Ground Park and Ride (10 mins walk) Time: 10:15am Grade: Easy to moderate Getting there: By bus - Turquoise 77 Walk length: 1.5 and 3 miles (The Rose stop). Parking - At the Broad Oak Duration: 40 - 90 minutes Grade: Moderate to hard Terrain: Wooded areas Walk length: 4 miles Duration: 90 minutes Terrain: Varied – open fields and hilly at times Fridays Wollaton Park Walk Grade: Easy to moderate A number of pleasant walking routes Walk length: 2 miles in Wollaton Park, with its 16th Century Duration: 45 - 60 minutes (short walk Hall, lake and deer park. option 30 minutes). Meeting place: Bench at the far end of Terrain: Flat first car park, Wollaton Park, Wollaton Rd. NG8 2AE Victoria Embankment Walk Time: 10:00am This is a steady walk along the Getting there: By bus - Pink 30 beautiful tree-lined embankment; we (Wollaton Hall stop). Parking - Ask the may include a visit to the Memorial walk leader for a free parking pass. Gardens or Wilford Village. Those Grade: Moderate (walk is mainly off wishing to do a shorter walk (20 paths) minutes) can leave the walk when Walk length: 1.5 and 3 miles we reach the tram line at Wilford Bridge and catch the tram from the Duration: 60 minutes Meadows Embankment stop. Often off footpaths so uneven Terrain: Meeting place: On the corner ground and some inclines of London Rd (A60) and Victoria Embankment (city side of river Trent Old Basford Walk just before Trent Bridge). A flat walk with benches at intervals. Time: 10:40am Lots of interesting wildlife can be Getting there: By bus - 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, found along the way. 11 (Trent Bridge Embankment stop). Meeting place: By the Jet petrol Parking - None. Only limited blue station, Mill St. NG6 0JW (B6004) badge parking available.. Time: 10:30am Grade: Easy to moderate Getting there: By bus - Yellow 70,71 Walk length: 2 and 3 miles (Mill St stop). Parking - We park free Duration: 60-90 minutes (short walk at The Mill pub on Bagnall Road NG6 option 30 minutes) 0JY and return there for refreshments Terrain: Flat after the walk. Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire enhances the quality of life and promotes the health & wellbeing of all older people. We are the largest local independent charity providing a wide range of services for older people from all communities and backgrounds in the city and county. Last year we helped over 42,000 older people. We are proactive, we transform We champion equality and diversity. lives, but you make it happen! 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