<p>Camden Walk Leaders: No 1 - January 2017</p><p>A happy new year to all the walk leaders and thanks for the effort that went into 2016. I thought it would be good to have a newsletter, to you know what is happening in the “Camden Active” team. </p><p>I really enjoyed getting out to the walks, meeting the walk leader and walkers. We had an average of 45 people walking a week, which meant almost 3,000 incidences of walking over 2016 - a significant contribution to keeping the people of Camden moving and enjoying the benefits of fresh air, green spaces and good company. </p><p>Development of “Walking for Health” walks: </p><p>As Active Living Officer my role is to see how we can get more people more active, with a particular focus on people who are inactive. I’d like to see more Health Walks in 2017, so we are organising walk leader training and will work with community groups across the Borough to see if people would like to set up their own walks. Ideally groups will identify their walk leader, but some may not be able to do this. If any of the existing walk leaders (or people taking part in your walks) would be interested in supporting a new group please let me know. </p><p>Walk Leader training: February 8 th – if you have volunteers that would like to be trained let me know. Flyer and application form attached. </p><p>Promotion of walking: “Walking for Health” is great, but we would like to promote walking more widely across the Borough, so we are working on this. I would like to prepare a case study on each of the walking groups, as we have a story to tell which we can share with others. We would also like to prepare a feature on one of the walk leaders for the Camden Magazine, so if you would be happy to have photos taken and be interviewed I would really appreciate it. Quite a quick turn-around, so if you are interested – let me know by end January. </p><p>Your ideas: I’m sure that as walk leaders you will have ideas. It’d be very useful if you could let me have your views on:</p><p>- Newsletter – do you like the idea? Any essential content? ideal frequency ?</p><p>- Developing Health Walks</p><p>- Promoting walking more widely</p><p>Replies by end Jan: nominations for walk leader training and name of any walk leaders who would be happy to be interviewed for Camden Magazine. </p><p>Thanks [email protected]</p><p>0207 974 2740</p>