Other Activities
For details of many other ways that you can get active in Tyne & Wear, please see the links below:
Get Out and Active
'Get Out and Active' is a new website that aims to highlight outdoor activities available in Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Tees Valley. The list of attractions on the website shows how families and friends can make the most of the outdoors over the spring and summer period. For more information visit:
Active Places
This website allows you to search for sports facilities anywhere in England by a number of different ways. You can browse an interactive map of the country, search for facilities in your local area or use the name and address of a specific facility to find out more information.
Sustrans
The UK's leading sustainable transport charity also has details of cycle routes, events and activities. For more information visit:
Natural England
The natural environment provides people with a range of benefits. Health and wellbeing are two of the most important.Increasing levels of physical activity is a national priority for improving people's health and the natural environment provides many opportunities.
BBC Breathing Places
A new 8 part series called the Nature of Britain has started on BBC. For details of somewhere to enjoy nature or something interesting to do at the weekend please visit:
Walk It
Walkit.com is a website which provides maps, directions and information such as steps take and calories burned, for local walking trips. The site offers obvious opportunities to promote healthy exercise as part of daily life, by making it easy for people to plot a route for their trip to work, the shops or local leisure facilities, while seeing how many calories they will burn, and how many steps they will take towards their daily target.
BHF National Centre for Physical Activity and Health Exercise Referral Toolkit
This toolkit is available to those who are planning their own exercise referral scheme. Rather than act as a firm blue print it outlines some best practice principles and advice on how to run a scheme. To view to the toolkit please visit:
