East London Blog
Walking As One: Get Involved!
Posted Monday, June 28th, 2010
Taking place in July in Birmingham and London is an opportunity to use your walking for art! Photographer Adam Magyar uses the same technology as the Olympic finishing line camera to create images that perfectly capture movement.
Get Walking Day goes East
Posted Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Get Walking’s East London team did their bit on Ramblers’s Get Walking Day on Sunday 23 May.
Hackney Walking Surgeries
Posted Friday, April 9th, 2010
Over the next few months we will be running a series of walking programmes with GP Surgeries in Hackney. The walks will be aimed at improving particpants’ health and the distance of each route will increase gradually every week.
Why not come along and try one of the walks for yourself?
The Surgeries involved are:
Well Street Surgery, [...]
Morningside Get Moving in the Morning
Posted Monday, March 8th, 2010
We are currently running a highly successful walking programme with Morningside Children’s Centre in Hackney. The walks which start at 9am on Monday mornings have attracted new walkers from across the borough who have all loved the walks and free step counters.
There is still time to get involved yourself – why not come along next [...]
Stories from the East
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Today sees the fourth art walk heading out from near Devons Way in Tower Hamlets, where the group we learn the art of sketching.
Last week the group were joined by Rich Sylvester a local story teller. They enjoyed hearing about the fascinating history of the area, along the canals leading to Limehouse Basin. The group [...]
400 step counters disappear at Crossharbour!
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
On Sunday David, John and a squad of enthusiastic student volunteers from Queen Mary University descended on the ASDA supermarket at Crossharbour on the Isle of Dogs. The team distributed Get Walking step counters to customers as they entered the store and by 5pm around 400 new East Londoners had got their hands on one [...]
Volunteers Attend First Aid Training
Posted Thursday, January 21st, 2010
This morning, a group of Get Walking Keep Walking volunteers attended a ‘Save A Life’ first aid training, led by the British Red Cross. The group’s learning included discovering how to respond to the needs of unconscious casualty, CPR and bleeding.
Volunteer, David Bays, commented “Dave Morris was a very experienced ex-London Ambulance Service, now [...]
Slippery Start to 2010
Posted Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Get Walking Keep Walking has been staying warm indoors so far this year. Due to the cold weather and treacherous icy pavements, our team of volunteers has been getting the public walking by distributing our Walking Packs and Step Counters at several different venues. Last week, hundreds of visitors to Hackney Central Library and Chrisp [...]
Welcome to Get Walking East London
Posted Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Welcome to the East London Get Walking blog. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be writing about events, news and happenings in the boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets. You’ll be hearing from David and John – our staff, volunteers and hopefully happy walkers who’ve been on one of our walks!
Watch this space!
