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The Walking and Wellbeing Award

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SHWN Annual Conference 2023

Creative Walking

We are collaborating with artist Alec Finlay to help walkers care more about their local walking environment.

Recap: Previous Events

Access information from past Scottish Health Walk Network national events, seminars and networking sessions.

Walking with Strength and Balance in healthcare settings

We support healthcare staff to deliver walking activities, combined with Strength and Balance, to residents, patients and clients in care settings.

Walking with Nature Backpack Kits: Caring for your local walking, wheeling and cycling routes

We are encouraging people to care for the places where they walk, wheel and cycle and to notice the wildlife that lives right beside them on their doorstep.

Walking with Nature: Woodlands

Spending time in your local woods whether they a large or small is a great way to slow down and connect with nature.

Walking with Nature: Look up at the sky

Wherever you live there are opportunities to connect with nature, including busy built-up areas. You just need to put your head in the clouds!

Walking with Nature: Notice three good things

Research has demonstrated that noticing three good things in nature can improve your wellbeing.

Walking with Nature: Spend time watching birds

Spending some time watching birds on your walks is a great way to take your mind away from your worries and become more present in the moment.

Walking with Nature: Try micro-volunteering

Do you want to make a difference in your local area but don’t have the time? Well, micro-volunteering is for you.

Walking with Nature: Connecting wherever you are

Learning about the link being nature connectiveness and wellbeing

Walking with Nature: Forests

Look closely and admire the intricacies of nature

Our Walking with Nature campaign has been inspiring kindness

Lots of walkers have got in touch to share what activities they have undertaken as a result of our Walking with Nature campaign and how it has boosted their well being.

How Walking with Nature can help develop our sense of place-awareness

Our artist in residence Alec Finlay shares his thoughts on the healing power of nature and how the pandemic has led us to appreciate the places where we live and the nature that lives there.

Walking with Nature: Litter

There's lots of things that you can do as a walker and path user to help combat the growing problem of litter on paths.

Walking with Nature: Micro volunteering

The idea behind micro-volunteering is that by more people taking small actions, collectively they can make a significant difference.

Walking with Nature: Birdsong

Can listening to birdsong or observing birds improve our mental health and wellbeing?

Walking with Nature: Kindness

We can all do with more kindness in our lives, particularly now during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ditch the desk: one minute mover videos

Sitting too much? Stand up and try one of our simple exercises to get moving

Walk with our mindfulness podcast narrated by Edith Bowman

A short walking meditation to plug in and tune out on your next walk

Winter Walking with Nature Activities

We have gathered some creative and fun Walking with Nature ideas to help keep adults in care homes active over winter.

Kind to Nature Mini Guide - Walking With Nature

A mini guide to showing kindness, protecting and enhancing nature on daily walks

Noticing Nature Mini Guide - Walking With Nature

A mini guide to noticing nature on daily walks.

Walking with Nature social media images

SHWN Conference 2020: Walking with Nature

SHWN Conference 2020 presentation delivered by Richard Armstrong

Our lockdown walking campaign has been shortlisted for a renowned award

Our Walking with Nature campaign has been recognised in the highly coveted Nature of Scotland Awards 2021.

Care homes get walking with Go4Gold

Go4Gold is a Perth and Kinross care home challenge to increase physical activity levels for all care home residents in a fun and meaningful way.

Energise your mind and body by Walking with Nature

We've launched a six-week campaign to help everyone benefit from connecting with nature while on daily walks.

Guest Blog: NatureScot's Abi Gardner on valuing the nature that's right on your doorstep.

One of the key drivers of biodiversity loss is our disconnection with nature. This disconnect leads many to undervalue nature and its contribution to our health, wellbeing, and wider society.

Valerie Carson: The highs and lows of tackling littering in communities

Walking for Health Development Officer, Valerie Carson shares why she picks up litter in her community.

Richard Armstrong: Small actions make a big impact when you micro volunteer on your local community path network

I am delighted to be writing this blog to help give you a few practical ideas of things you can do during our Walking with Nature: micro-volunteering week.

Ian Findlay CBE: Kindness to yourself, others and our environment is at the core of Paths for All's new Walking with Nature campaign

Welcome to Paths for All’s new Walking with Nature campaign which is very close to my heart.

Walk It and Covid-19

We asked Walking for Health project - Walk It in the Scottish Borders - to share their experience of the past year of lockdown, detailing how their project has adapted, faced up to new challenges and strived to keep going through the pandemic, including how they have supported people with dementia.

Woodland Wanderers

This entirely volunteer-run group is for people in Midlothian who may be feeling down, low, depressed and/or be affected by other mental health issues. Carers are also welcome.

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