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WALKING PEOPLE AT YOUR SERVICE IN THE CITY OF LONDON In association with WALKING ACCORDING TO A 2004 STUDY, WALKING IS GOOD COMMUTERS CAN EXPERIENCE FOR BUSINESS HAPPIER, MORE GREATER STRESS THAN FIGHTER PRODUCTIVE PILOTS GOING INTO BATTLE WORKFORCE We are Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking. For more than 85 years we’ve been a beacon for this simple act. In our early days our campaigning led to the UK’s first zebra crossings and speed limits. 94% SAID THAT Now our campaigns, projects and services deliver real ‘GREEN EXERCISE’ 109 change to overcome barriers to walking and LIKE WALKING JOURNEYS BETWEEN CENTRAL our groundbreaking initiatives encourage IMPROVED THEIR LONDON UNDERGROUND STATIONS MENTAL HEALTH ARE ACTUALLY QUICKER ON FOOT millions of people to walk. Walking is an integral part of all our lives and it can provide a simple, low cost solution to the PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAMMES increasing levels of long-term health conditions AT WORK HAVE BEEN FOUND TO caused by physical inactivity. HALF REDUCE ABSENTEEISM BY UP TO Proven to have positive effects on both mental and OF LONDON CAR JOURNEYS ARE JUST physical health, walking can help reduce absenteeism OVER 1 MILE, A 25 MINUTE WALK 20% and staff turnover and increase productivity levels. With more than 20 years’ experience of getting people walking, we know what works. We have a range of 10,000 services to help you deliver your workplace wellbeing 1 MILE RECOMMENDED WALKING activities which can be tailored to fit your needs. NUMBER OF DAILY 1 MILE BURNS Think of us as the friendly experts in your area who are STEPS UP TO 100 looking forward to helping your workplace become CALORIES happier, healthier and more productive. For us, everything begins with walking. 200 NUMBER OF MUSCLES YOU RICHARD IS ONE OF OUR WALKING EXPERTS, USE EVERY TIME DEDICATED TO DELIVERING WALKING YOU TAKE A STEP MEET PROJECTS IN THE CITY OF LONDON. RICHARD INTRODUCING OUR SERVICES We’ve been working in partnership with the City of London since 2010, running a range of initiatives to encourage people to walk more within, to and from the City. As part of our relationship with the City of London which funds the post of our London Coordinator, Richard Lambert, we are able to lend some expertise to promote walking at no cost. In addition, we have a range of paid-for services that can be tailored to fit your needs. DIGITAL WALKING TRAILS Living Streets has an exclusive arrangement with Crumbs, the city trail app, combining elements of FACE TO FACE WALK DOCTOR CONSULTATIONS treasure hunt, walking tours and local knowledge quiz. Our popular walk doctor events are a fun and effective We can create bespoke trails for your staff to download way to promote active travel by talking to your staff about and follow, which begin and end at locations of your their travel habits and providing advice on how to build choice, and on any theme. walking into their day. COMMUNITY STREET AUDITS WALKING MAPS Our unique community street audits evaluate commonly Walking maps give people the know-how and confidence walked routes from the perspective of the people who use to walk more. Tapping into our local knowledge of the City them. We will support your employees to assess the local we can create custom-made walking maps including your area around your office and create recommendations for office locations, points of interest and bespoke walking making the area more walking friendly. trails to help employees explore the City on their doorstep. EVENT PACKAGES LED WALKS AND WALK LEADER TRAINING Every May is Living Streets’ National Walking Month, and We can design a programme of led walks to run at times this could be a great time to launch walking activity within to suit you. If you have the interest in-house we can your organisation. You may also have a wellbeing week in train walk leaders to champion walking from within your the calendar – we can design bespoke packages to cover organisation. We offer a simple training package that the walking elements; including e-comms to your staff covers route planning, organisation and risk management. with daily walking tips. 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