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Ramblers Walking for Health in Middlesbrough is aimed to encourage people of all ages and abilities to become more physically active in their local communities.
(more…)One of the key focuses of our Active Travel team is that of Pedestrian Training, under the tenets of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Pedestrian training is an essential part of young children’s lives: It teaches them how to respect the road and cross it safely. It teaches them how to properly monitor the road to check for a safe crossing, how to maintain their visibility so that drivers can see them and how to properly cross the road.
Our Active Travel team deliver pedestrian training sessions across the Tees Valley, and have been doing so for many years alongside Bikeability. As such, they are highly qualified leaders in delivering pedestrian training and help to teach children how to safely cross the road . For more information on Bikeability for schools, please enquire with Margaret Tonkin at margaret.tonkin@menvcity.org.uk, or call us on 01542 579820.
Our Active Travel team deliver Bikeability training to Primary Schools across the Tees Valley. Bikeability, overseen by the Bikeability Trust, is the Department for Transport’s flagship national cycle training programme for schoolchildren across England and is a practical, framework-driven training system designed to develop the skills of children, as well as their confidence, to allow them to cycle safely. In doing so, it improves their health and also works towards the reduction of carbon emissions from cars.
Bikeability focuses on all levels of riders, from children who are just starting on their cycling journey to more experienced riders, and teaches a mastery of basic skills as well as other skills including safety checks, communicating with other road users and suitable ride positions, amongst other things.
Our Active Travel team are trained to exacting standards to teach Bikeability, and are certified by 1st 4 Sport for Instructing Cycle Training, some of the first in the country to be certified to this standard which will become mandatory for teaching Bikeability in March 2024.
Our Active Travel team deliver Bikeability sessions to dozens of kids a day, to many different schools, and have been doing so for several years. As such, they are highly qualified leaders in Bikeability training and are more than capable of delivering the training safely and effectively. For more information on Bikeability for schools, please enquire with Margaret Tonkin at margaret.tonkin@menvcity.org.uk, or call us on 01642 579820.
Redcar Active Travel Hub is a mobile service that delivers Active Travel Projects in and around the borough.
The service is in place to assist people to make steps towards leading a healthier life style.
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Latest News
Jennys Pasta is now available in social supermarkets around Middlesbrough thanks to the extraordinarily hard work and dedication from researchers from Fuse, clinicians from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust , Teesside University and the Middlesbrough Food Partnership alongside ourselves. Together, this amazing coalition worked with people living with SMI to develop a range of nutritious recipes that can be transformed into affordable ready meals using surplus ingredients. The first batch, Lentil Bolognese, is now available in social supermarkets across Middlesbrough.
The pilot is the culmination of earlier research into food insecurity in the North of England, as well as into how people living with SMI can be supported to access healthy, affordable food, which was hosted by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Teesside University, Newcastle University , Fuse and Equally Well UK (a collaborative hosted by the Centre for Mental Health), and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, as part of their NIHR Research for Patient Benefit – Mental Health in the North programme.
We are proud of the hard work done by the partners and by our phenomenal Middlesbrough Food Partnership team to make a real difference to those living with SMI and tackling food insecurity. Well done, everybody: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we're proud to have taken that first step alongside you all in this initiative.
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People living with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) have created a nutritious ready meal as part of a year-long research study to tackle food insecurity and improve access to quality food in Middlesbrough.Upcoming Events
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