Streets Apart: Walking with over 65's in Essex

Living Streets is working with public health teams across Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering to support over 65’s to enjoy healthier lifestyles and supporting people to reconnect in their communities.

This project focusses on establishing small groups of older citizens to meet for weekly walks. We already have a number of groups up and running and are keen to develop more .

Each walk is about an hour and takes advantage of the green areas in each borough – but is also flexible to discover new places, rather than fixed in the same location (as the group members wish).

Features of the walking groups are:

•  A limit of 8 participants
•  Running in neighbourhoods near where members live
•  Focus on forging social contact and friendships, with café time at the end
•  Led by trained walk leaders who are often over 65 too

Your help is also appreciated in promoting this walking programme to your service users.

You can find out more in the flyer (below) or by visiting the Facebook page.