Get Walking Works

Get Walking Keep Walking in Sheffield works! It encourages people to do more walking, it improves participants mental wellbeing and it has also benefitted a great number of people of all ages and from all backgrounds across the city.

Get Walking Keep Walking has just released its third year report showing just how much the project has achieved in Sheffield over since 2008. Incredibly, around 7000 people have taken part in the project (23% of those taking part in led walks and 77% receiving walking packs and pedometers) and the project continues to grow. Below are a few facts and figures from the report:

Diversity

The report found that 31% of beneficiaries are male

The majority of participants are from non-white backgrounds; 23% of Sheffield beneficiaries are from a BME background compared to the city population of 8%.

Children and Young People

GWKW Sheffield has worked with a lot of young people, with 15% of participants aged 16-24. Through its children’s programme the project has also worked with over 1000 children.

Wellbeing

Overwhelmingly, beneficiaries reported that as a result of participating in GWKW they were more likely to feel happy, engaged, energised and motivated. They also said they were less likely to feel lonely and depressed as a result of walking.

Keep Walking

On average, beneficiaries were more active after participating in GWKW Sheffield with participants reporting that they walked on average of 1.1 days more a week.

Also the study found that participants walked 63.4 minutes more per week from place to place and 69.3 minutes more for leisure.

For more information and to download the full third year report click here

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