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Mag’s Crumble!

Posted Friday, August 20th, 2010

Netty, Mags and Chris have been Walking in New Moston with the Northfield Rd Day Centre for adults with Learning Disabilities. Last week we collected Blackberries as we walked along. Mags took them home and came back this week with a Home made Blackberry Crumble !!! Chris brought the cream and Netty ate loads!
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Walking with Cheetham Community School

Posted Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Year 2 children form Cheetham Community School take on Get Walking Keep Walking

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Rochdale Canal Walk!

Posted Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Pictures from the Rochdale Canal Walk!

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Get Walking Manchester on Facebook!

Posted Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Get Walking Manchester now has its own Facebook page! You can get an update of all the walks, events, goings on and chat to fellow walkers!
Follow this link and ‘LIKE’ Get Walking Manchester!
See you on there!

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Learning while we walk in Chorlton

Posted Monday, June 28th, 2010

Get Walking joins forces with Chorlton Park Adult Education Centre ESOL class to learn while walking.

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75 Years of Ramblers – let’s do Kinder again

Posted Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

The Manchester and Salford Ramblers like a good celebration. We had our exhibition in February, which had been a great success and collected lots of material about the Kinder Trespass. April was our baton month so we thought “why not do it again” and chose the 24th April, by chance the actual anniversary date [...]

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Paul Goggins MP Gets Walking

Posted Friday, March 19th, 2010

Paul Goggins MP joins the Woodhouse Park Walkers for a stroll around Wythenshawe.

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Celebrating Success with Chalte Chalte Walking Group

Posted Thursday, February 4th, 2010

A 4 week programme with a Ladies group that has turned into an on-going walking group, soon to be trained as Volunteer Health Walk Leaders. Brilliant!

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Get Moving in the New Year

Posted Monday, January 11th, 2010

Join our Manchester team at a series of events across the city promoting activity for people to get fit for FREE in the New Year!

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Welcome to Get Walking in Manchester!

Posted Friday, November 27th, 2009

Welcome to the Manchester Get Walking blog. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be writing about walks, events and happenings in the great city of Manchester. Mainly you’ll be hearing from Jen and Netty, our staff in the boroughs but we also hope to bring you tales from volunteers and people who’ve been on [...]

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