Step Up: Media Pack

For all media enquiries about Step Up, please contact:
Anna Powell (anna.powell@livingstreets.org.uk) or
Lucy Abell (lucy.abell@livingstreets.org.uk)
on 020 7377 4900.

Step Up is working to get more 11-16 year olds walking as part of their school journey. We believe that more young people walking brings a host of benefits:

Environmental The average journey (3.4 miles) to secondary school by car releases enough CO₂ to inflate 60 balloons.

Health and Obesity Walking for just an hour extra each week (returning our activity levels to those of 1975) would reduce average weight gain over the next decade by over 12 kilos.

Teenage Road Safety In May 2008, Living Streets published the Back Seat Children Report. This ground breaking research made the link for the first time between our protective culture of children walking to school independently and the spike in teenage road accident victims.

You can read about the current state of walking to secondary school on our statistics page.

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Press Releases:

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