Pupils in Bedfordshire will join thousands of children across the UK to take to their feet for Living Streets’ Walk to School Week.
Walk to School Week takes place during Living Streets’ National Walking Month each May, with this year’s campaign focusing on the health and environmental benefits of walking to school.
Walk to School Week classroom packs will explore how being active helps children gain ‘superpowers’ that improve their health, happiness and local environment.
Pupils in Central Bedfordshire cycled, scooted and walked an amazing 72,093 journeys during Sustrans Big Pedal which ran from 19 to 30 April 2021.
This year’s theme was ‘Amazing Journeys’ where pupils learnt about the benefits of active travel as well as discovering some amazing facts from around the world.
Three bikes abandoned at railway stations in Bedfordshire have been renovated for NHS key workers at Biggleswade Hospital.
Govia Thameslink donated them to Central Bedfordshire Council and Luton Council’s bike recycling scheme, so they could be renovated for NHS key workers through the 'Bikes for Bedfordshire Health Heroes' scheme.
The scheme aims to give a ‘thank you’ to NHS workers and promote safe, sustainable travel, all at the same time. The bikes will help hospital staff get to and from work while maintaining social distancing and getting some valuable extra exercise.
Schools in Central Bedfordshire were invited to take part in a Bike wheel Christmas wreath competition and we had some brilliant results. Pupils designed some amazing wreaths using recycled materials, the overall winner was Flitwick Lower School who used items from their wildlife garden to design a beautiful Christmas pudding.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our bike recycling event on Monday 24 June!
Staff at Priory House, Chicksands and local residents responded to the call to donate their unwanted bikes and around 90 bikes were collected on the day. The bikes have already gone to the Luton Council workshop to be refurbished ready for re-homing!
