A year ago, on the 9th October, Anne Pitman, Richard and Sue Skinner led their first Health Walk from the
The Village Inn Village in Sedbury. There were just six walkers, 5 of whom were walk leaders from the scheme who had turned out to support them.
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| The day we risk-assesed the new walk. |
Anne, Richard and Sue have worked hard to publicise their walks, frequently replacing and renewing posters in local shops, as well as writing the occasional story for the local paper and one of our blogs which was used as the basis for a national Walking for Health story on their website. You can read it here.
Sue's story Being members of
Singing Club Sue and Anne have persuaded several singers to join the walking group and Richard is able to promote the walk through his role as a
Village Agent.
When they started out there was only one route, but in order to offer more variety to walkers there are now six different routes on offer and each week the group decide where they would like to walk. In the summer Anne, Richard and Sue organised two extra walks as part of our summer programme:
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| The fossil beach at Sedbury |
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| A very wet Severn Bridge |
Last Thursday 21 of their 30 registered walkers, and a dog, came along to celebrate the groups first birthday.
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| Sue cutting the cake |
Well done Anne, Richard and Sue for making such a success of your Health Walk. Happy Birthday - and here's to next year!
