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Walking for health promoted in Huntingdonshire

10 October 2007

The Huntingdonshire Health Walks scheme has appointed eight new volunteer walk leaders.
 
All of the new leaders have been regular walkers on the scheme, which promotes walking for health by rambling over the local countryside.
 
The Huntingdon group now has 30 volunteer leaders, who each head up to 38 walks per month, reports the Town Crier Today.
 
Walks have been set up in St Ives, St Neots, Huntingdon and Ramsey under the Walking the Way to Health (WHI) initiative, a nationwide project to get more people walking in their local communities.
 
The walks aim to provide people in the community with the opportunity to participate in organised health walks with trained leaders as a cheap and easy method of keeping fit.
 
WHI is run by the British Heart Foundation and Natural England and has created over 400 local health walk schemes, trained over 30 000 volunteers and it is estimated the scheme has encouraged over a million people to walk more since 2000.

British Heart Foundation is a registered trademark of British Heart Foundation (registered charity).

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