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| 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. Hopefully we can make walking a little easier for you with plenty of information, resources and ideas about how to get walking and keep walking. |
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Here we have provided plenty of information about walking. Whether you’re planning on walking for health reasons, for fun or just to get somewhere there is plenty of information to start you off on the right foot. Please click on PDF icon below:
| Information about Walking |
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Last Updated 10/01/12 |
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If you would like to start walking and would like to join a group of walkers somewhere in the city there are a number of organised walks for all abilities. Please contact the walk leader before attending, contact details provided in the following PDF.
| Weekly Health Walks Manchester |
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| Other Walking Opportunities in Manchester 2012 |
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| PARS Health Walks Newsletter 8 - Jan/March 2012 |
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| PARS Health Walks Newsletter 9 - April/June 2012 |
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Last Updated 10/04/12 |
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The city of Manchester has 138 parks, 31 of which have been awarded green flag status and a walking route has now been identified that links these green spaces. The Green Corridor is made up of 14 routes with each route averaging 4 miles.
The tree-lined routes have been identified and ‘developed’ by volunteers from the Ramblers. This has involved them:
- identifying specific roads suitable for walking
- developing detailed directions for walkers to follow including timings
- describing the route in terms of quality, accessibility, facilities, potential hazards etc and risk assessing routes
- recording local points of interest including historical ones
- identifying relevant groups in the area
- identifying useful bus routes
Many of the parks already have established activities and health walks associated with them, so the development of the Green Corridor is seen as an opportunity to promote these and to extend the provision. Manchester also has an established network of trained walk leaders and the ability to continue to deliver walk leader training in the future.
This initiative is a partnership between Manchester City Council; Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust’s Physical Activity Referral Scheme and Public Health Development Service; Red Rose Forest and The Ramblers.
Information on all 14 routes can be downloaded from www.getwalking.org/manchester or you can find the individual leaflets here, as they get produced. |
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To see the Leaflets, click on the relevant PDF:
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| Walk 11 |
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For more information concerning this article please contact Chris Love, Deputy Head of Service, Manchester Public Health Development Service chris.love@mhsc.nhs.uk |
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Last Updated 30/04/12 |
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Commit 2 It! is a structured and supported physical activity programme that can lead you into one of Manchester's great running, aqua or cycling events.
Commit 2 It! is run by Active Lifestyles, part of Manchester City Council.
For further details, phone 0161 232 3112 or click on the badge |
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Last Updated 16/01/12 |
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Why not join the walks in Blackley Forest? Meet at the Victoria Avenue Entrance 2pm on the second Monday of each month (except April)
Refreshments are available following the walk at Glenbrook Chapel Hall.
For more information contact Dot Keller on 0161 795 0900.
Please click on PDF icon below:
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This website is your walking resource centre with everything you need to:
- Apply for a free Get Walking pack
- Join a programme of led walks in your local area
- 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
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| Get Walking in Manchester covers the whole Manchester City Council area, from Blackley to Wythenshawe. Manchester is a great place to explore on foot – from the grand Victorian city centre to miles of canal and riverside walks.
On this page you can find details of our programmes of led walks which take place throughout the year from a variety of locations throughout Manchester. You can also download our walking routes so you can explore at your own pace.
For further information, click on:
Get Walking, Keep Walking
www.getwalking.org/manchester/
Get Walking, Keep Walking
www.facebook.com/getwalkingmanchester |
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Last Updated 10/01/12 |
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| Race for Life is the UK’s largest women-only fundraising event where all the money raised goes to funding Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work. |
The 2012 Race for Life events dates in Manchester are now available:
| Manchester Heaton Park |
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Saturday 21st July, 10:30am |
| Manchester Heaton Park |
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Sunday 22nd July, 11:00am |
| Manchester Heaton Park |
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Sunday 22nd July, 2:30pm |
| Cheshire Tatton Park |
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Saturday 23rd July, 11:00am |
| Cheshire Tatton Park |
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Sunday 24th July, 11:00am |
| Cheshire Tatton Park |
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Sunday 2nd September, 11:00am |
Events will also be taking place elsewhere in the North West.
For further information click on this link www.raceforlife.org or call 0871 641 1111. |
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Last Updated 16/02/12 |
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Saturday 8th September 2012 8.30pm
Join with friends and family to take part in Shine Manchester. Choose to walk a full marathon (26.2 miles) or a half marathon (13.1 miles).
The Shine course will take in some iconic landmarks as you explore Manchester at night. |
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| You can select how you would like the money you raise to be used – either to support research on one of twelve prevalent forms of cancer, or to support Cancer Research UK’s wider groundbreaking work against the disease.
Event Timetable
- 7:00pm Arrive at Old Trafford Football Stadium
- 8:00pm Warm up
- 8:30pm Half marathon and full marathon begin
Entry Fee £30.00
For further news about the Manchester Shine 2012 event, click on http://shine.cancerresearchuk.org/events/manchester-2012 |
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Last Updated 16/02/12 |
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