Having access to good quality, well maintained community paths close to where people live is essential for encouraging everyone to be active.
Welcoming, safe and accessible outdoor environments can improve our physical, mental and social health by allowing people to be physically active outdoors, and helping people to connect with and get closer to nature.
We champion and promote best practice inclusive design standards, that improve our walking environments and provide opportunities for people to walk more.
We do this through our National Path Demonstration Site, provision of technical advice and community path good practice guides.
Through our Ian Findlay Path Fund we provide funding and support to community organisations. Empowering them to improve active travel routes within their communities so that people can walk, cycle, and access public transport instead of driving.
We promote open places and spaces to increase use of paths, parks, urban greenspaces, coasts, canals, and forests as ideal places to be active, improve health and wellbeing, and support climate mitigation.