We promote walking as a form of exercise. Walking is a fun, free and natural exercise that’ll help you to get fit, improve your health, lose weight, burn calories and make friends.

Get Walking and Get Healthy!

Walking is an excellent natural exercise that can help you stay healthy and live longer; control your weight; keep happy; enjoy time with friends and family; learn more about your local area and even look after the environment.

Join one of our programmes of led walks in Birmingham, Durham, East London, South London, Manchester or Sheffield.

This website is your walking resource centre with everything you need to:

Complete your 12 week walking plan online with My Get Walking
Join a local programme of led walks
Explore your community using our walking routes

Learn more about how walking can change your life – for good
Volunteer and share your enthusiasm for walking
Become a Get Walking Keep Walking partner

Get Walking News

Swindon Walking Festival. You’ll find lots of different free, themed walks on offer during the Swindon Walking Festival on the 14 to 25 May!

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Health benefits of walking

Walking regularly is an easy way to keep fit, lose weight, burn calories and stay healthy. It's also a great way to fight stress and protect your body against illnesses.

Walking route maps

Download free maps of all our best walking routes in Birmingham, Durham, Leicester, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Swindon and the rest of Great Britain.

They did it! - Success stories

Get Walking has helped lots of people to lose weight, improve their health, make friends and have fun. It can do the same for you!

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Complete your 12 week walking programme online with My Get Walking

Schedule walks
Set personal goals
Save your favourite walks from across the web
Keep track of how many steps you have
walked so far

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Join the Ramblers today!

The Ramblers is Britain's Walking Charity with 500 local Groups. As well as promoting walking, we protect and enhance the places you walk and offer over 30,000 walks a year.

Walking in your area

Looking for ideas and inspiration to help you start walking in your area? Click here to search for short led walks and information about walking near you.

Walking Information

'Why Walk', the Ramblers' free online resource of informaton specially written for people new to walking.

Walking Routes & Maps

Discover the hidden gems of your local community on one of our high quality walking routes, with free printable a4 route cards.

Get Walking Keep Walking is a Ramblers project funded by the Big Lottery Fund through the Active Travel Consortium of leading walking, cycling and health organisations, and supported by councils, NHS trusts and the Ramblers Holidays Charitable Trust. Copyright © 2009 Get Walking Keep Walking. All Rights Reserved.