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STEPS/Living Streets 20th Anniversary On May 24th we will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary with an evening "do"
at Les Cotils. Please save this date and we will be giving more information later. We celebrated our new charity
on that date when Belisha Beacon stilt walkers walked through Town giving out balloons to children on 24th May 2002.
Government House Charity Fayre Thank you to everyone who visited our stall on Saturday 26th June and purchased some of our cards and calendars.
In spite of the weather deteriorating in the last two hours we raised a good sum of money to put towards the Baubigny Schools
pathway. We will be back at Sausmarez Manor next Saturday morning - 9am til 12 noon. Living
Streets convened a large meeting at Moores Hotel on May 18th 2021 to talk about road safety. Attending were representatives
of the Police, Ambulance service, Traffic and Highways, CT Plus, Guernsey Bicycle Group, Health Improvement Commission, Guernsey
Motor Traders Association, Torteval Douzaine, Education Department as well as Living Streets committee members. The
Guernsey Press attended and took a photo and gave us a full page in the Press on 21st May. The outcome of the meeting
was a decision to form an Alliance to highlight road safety issues. The Guernsey Press has agreed to feature a road
safety item in their monthly "Drive" supplement. One issue that we want to highlight is reminding pedestrians
that if there isn't a pavement they should walk on the right hand side of the road facing the traffic. However if
there is a blind bend they should cross the road carefully and then cross back after the bend. click here to download our December newsletter click here to download our July 2018 newsletter
Guernsey Country Walks 2019 Calendar is out! Calendars will
be in most card outlets such as the Coach House Gallery, The Tapestry Gallery
in St. James, Beekers on the Bridge, Le Tricoteur at Rocquaine, Lexicon, the
Press and Guernsey Post in Town. Also Goodies at the Manor Stores in St Martin, Cadeaux
at Cobo and Smilers at Vazon.
Bright Day 20th October 2017 Bright Day this year raised £655 thanks to three organisations that took part - States of Guernsey head office,
Frossard House, BDO and Butterfield Bank. Bright Day aims to highlight the dangers of walking or cycling at night wearing
dark clothes. Everyone needs to brighten up so that motorists can see them clearly on Guernsey's narrow roads.
Specsavers in Market Square also donated £500. All the funds are used to purchase
high visibility vests which we give out during Road Safety Week. We will be in the Pop Up shop in Smith Street
from Monday to Saturday 10am til 4pm. Vests will be available on a first come first served basis. This year we
will, again, have 500 children's vests donated by Specsavers so make sure your children are safe when walking or cycling
to school. click here to download our May 2017 newsletter
Living Streets teams up with Bus Users Guernsey Living Streets has joined up with the Bus Users Guernsey (BUG) again this year to promote National Walking Month which is organised by Living Streets UK. We are encouraging commuters to consider either walking to work during May if they live within a mile of their workplace, or walking to the nearest bus stop and taking the bus - what we call "Stride and Ride".
Businesses are being encouraged to take part in week one of May, Civil Servants and deputies in week 2. Week 3 is Walk to School Week and 7 primary schools are taking part - organised by the Active Travel Unit in Environment. Week 3 is also a States meeting week and we hope that deputies might consider walking or bussing to the States Chamber.
Week 4 is the emphasis on "Stride and Ride". Sixty-one buses arrive in Town before 9am every morning - we hope that commuters might check out the bus timetable and consider trying the bus. This week will also coincide with the delivery of the new buses so it's an opportunity to try them out.
We launched the campaign yesterday, 27th April, and we really do hope that everyone will take advantage of the lovely spring weather and dust off their walking shoes next month.
click here to download our December 2016 newsletter click here to download our January 2016 newsletter click here to download our September 2015 newsletter
Living Streets has been invited to take part in this year's Weight Wise Week. We will be joining the Health
Promotion Unit in promoting the health benefits of walking. Available will be our "Guernsey Country Walks"
greeting cards - each of which includes a sketch map of a walk lasting about one hour. In addition we will have leaflets
about safe walking in Guernsey. Dates and times are: Monday 12 January
8am - 12.30; Tuesday 13th 12noon - 7pm; Wednesday 14th 5pm - 9pm;
Friday 16th 8am - 2pm click here to download our September 2014 newsletter
Living Streets wins the ICCI Best Conservation Project of 2014 Living Streets has been awarded the top prize in the ICCI Conservation Awards - Best Conservation Project
in 2014 for its Baubigny Schools pathway project. The Baubigny Schools pathway was opened in 2010 after three years
of campaigning and fund raising. It provides a beautiful, safe cross country walk for children going to the Baubigny
Schools. Living Streets negotiated a pathway through an 8 acre vinery site so that children
could use the existing footpaths and green lanes and then take a short cut through the vinery site to the back of the Baubigny
Schools. We developed new earth banks to delineate the pathway and installed several gates and fencing to ensure
students kept to the pathway and didn't stray into the rest of the vinery. With the help of school children and
Men of the Trees we planted 600 hawthorn saplings and several trees on the earth banks and today they are full of wild flowers. Initially the children using the path were able to access the schools through one of their back gates,
but more recently for logistical reasons that had not been possible so the children were having to walk down the prison road
to the Baubigny Road. This was never ideal and so in January 2013 we met with the schools to try to find an alternative.
The result was developing a footpath around the football pitch and cutting an entrance into the front car park of the schools.
This now enables children to go directly into the front of the schools where they can join their friends. In November 2013 we embarked on a major planting programme to enhance the new football
pitch path. Over 2,000 saplings were planted to delineate the new path and to provide shelter from the wind.
The planting programme was designed by Nigel Clarke and Vic Froome and it included trees for a woodland area and an edible
orchard. The vision for the area of land nearest to the car park was for an "outside learning" area
that both schools could use for a range of curricular studies. Many volunteers helped us plant
throughout the winter of 2013/14 and we are very grateful to everyone who turned out in sometimes horrible weather to
plant the saplings. In addition the Community Service Team were invaluable in helping us clear areas prior to planting
and dig out pampas grass which is endemic in the area. The new path
around the football pitch now means that residents in the area can use the route through to Admiral Park, which reinstates
a route that was lost when the new schools were built. The Baubigny Schools pathway is now regularly used by children
going to school, horse riders, cyclists and members of public. The schools themselves use the route for various curricular
studies including PE, Geography (map reading) and geocaching (treasure hunts using GPS technology). The Murier
School regularly walks children to the Bowl and St. Peter Port using this beautiful (virtually traffic free)
route. The only traffic that might be encountered is the occasional tractor or vehicle used by the owners of the fields
along the route. We didn't expect to win the Conservation
Award but we are delighted that all our hard work over the years has finally been acknowledged. click here to download a map showing the route of our Baubigny Schools pathway click here to download our May 2014 newsletter
Walk to Work Week 2014 Living Streets
has published its second "Walk to Work" leaflet which aims to encourage commuters living at the top of Town to leave
their cars at home and walk to work using the lovely Petites Fontaines. The leaflets contain information on
the benefits of building exercise into your daily routine (like the walk to and from work) and include a sketch map showing
our recommended route which takes just 15 minutes to Market Square. We want commuters to use the back streets of
Town rather than walking down the noisy, polluted main roads. Deputy Peter
Harwood, our ex Chief Minister, is a keen walker and lives in King's Road and he very kindly helped us promote the leaflets
and hand delivered many of them for us. We really hope that commuters will seriously consider walking to work in the
future. click here to download a pdf of the leaflet
Minister for the Environment, Roger Domaille, opens the Baubigny Schools pathway extension In November 2013 we started to develop a new pathway around the football pitch at St. Sampson's High so
that children using our path from the Bouet could enter the school grounds without having to use the Prison Road. Over
the winter we planted 2,000 bare root trees and shrubs to delineate the path and to provide a wind break in one area.
In addition plants and trees nearest the school will provide a woodland and picnic area and an "outside learning"
area for the two schools. On 4th April we officially opened the new
route and were joined by everyone who had helped us to get to this stage. That included most importantly Nigel Clarke
and Vic Froome who had designed the planting programme, our main sponsor, Peter Creasey, Joan Ozanne from JLT Insurance representing
Green Legacy, who had provided funding for some of the mature trees, and the Community Service team who had helped us throughout
the winter prepare the ground for the planting. St. Sampson's High and Le Murier schools have fully supported the
project and some Duke of Edinburgh students had helped with the planting.
Living Streets and Guernsey Police raise awareness
of safety around schools Living Streets has joined up with the Neighbourhood Policing
Team to encourage parents to be more considerate when parking near schools. Living Streets has paid for two new banners
with a clear message: NO PARKING; NO WAITING; NO EXCUSES. The banners will be moved around the island to various problem
areas. The first location is the Vale School where parents not only park on the footpath but also on yellow lines outside
the school. This makes it very dangerous for parents and children trying to walk to school. Illegal parking carries
a fine of £70 and the Police are intending to take a zero tolerance approach to those who break the law. Living Streets is also working with the Head, Gary Hind, to try to encourage more car sharing and to help the school
develop "walking buses". In addition we are intending to provide information to parents as to where they
can park safely a short walking distance from the schools. A map pinpointing where pupils live will also be used
to help with the development of a Schools Travel Plan. click here to download our January 2014 Newsletter
Launch of the Baubigny Schools pathway extension
and enhancement programme Living Streets has been working closely with the Education
Department and the schools to develop an extension to the Baubigny Schools pathway which will allow children to walk directly
into the car park via a new pathway around the football pitch. On Monday 9th December we launched the new pathway together
with an ambitious planting scheme which will enable the schools to use the adjacent area for an outside learning area. When we first opened the Baubigny Schools pathway in 2010 access into the school buildings was through the schools'
back gate. More recently, however, owing to logistical problems, children have had to use the Prison Road - which was
not ideal. The new pathway means that the end of the walk will be much safer for the children and they will be able
to join their friends in the car park.
Nigel Clarke of Queux Patio and
Vic Froome of La Societe Guernesiaise have designed an exciting planting scheme which will not only delineate the pathway
but also enhance the whole area. More than 3,000 trees and shrubs will be planted between now and next February.
The vision for the section nearest the car park is for an "outside learning/picnic area" which is consistent with
Ofsted best practices. The plants and trees will provide opportunities to teach all curriculum subjects as well a providing
an edible orchard for humans and wildlife. School children and staff from both St. Sampson's
High and Le Murier came out to help Living Streets and its partners start the planting programme. Living Streets has undertaken to finance the costs of the plants and trees and are
looking for sponsors. So far 50% of the costs of the planting scheme have been generously supported by Tony Creasey
from the Marks & Spencer Plastic Bag fund. If anyone can help us, please contact Pat Wisher
on 268088 or patwisher@cwgsy.net click here to download a brief photo description of the new path extension and enhancement programme
click here to download our September 2013 newsletter
click here to download our leaflet click here to download our May2013 Newsletter click here to download our January 2013 news letter
click here to download the weight wise map and pictures click here to download our August 2012 newsletter
Active Travel Strategy click here to download our Active Travel document click here to download our April 2012 newsletter click here to download our December Newsletter
click here for more on our survey report results
£1,000 grant from the Co-op's EcoFund
click here for our August Newsletter
Click here to go to our Tranquillity Walk page
click here to see our nine designs
For more on the Baubigny Schools Pathway click here
Walk to School Week
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Association of Guernsey Charities No. 259 "Campaigning for better streets
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