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Welcome to our podcast from this year's supporters' conference which we held at the NCVO's offices in London's King's Cross on Saturday, 21 June. This year's conference was vibrant and inspiring as ever. The theme was getting streets on the political agenda, and accordingly the centrepiece of the day was a Question Time-style panel discussion with politicians from some of the major parties. There was also a thought-provoking keynote address from John Whitelegg on putting sustainable transport at the heart of election campaigning. Our podcast has highlights from both of these, as well as voxpops with attendees from throughout the day, plus a final (sniff!) introduction from our outgoing chief exec, Tony Armstrong. #LSConf #peoplefirst #walktowork #walktoschool

Happy National Walking Month! Living Streets is the national charity that stands up for pedestrians. This is the second in our special series of podcasts to celebrate National Walking Month, our annual campaign dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the benefits of walking. http://www.livingstreets.co.uk/national-walking-month The month focuses on how walking can take you to more than just a destination – it can take you to a clearer head, more family time, hidden treasures in your neighbourhood, a fatter wallet from savings on petrol or public transport, and a healthier environment. Each of the podcasts in this series will focus on a different benefit. As we get ready for Walk to School Week, 19-23 May, we’ll be looking at how walking is a great way to spend some quality family time. Walk to School Week is a fantastic time to celebrate the benefits of walking to school. But it’s also an opportunity for us to highlight how important walking to school is – and why it needs to be made safer and easier for people to do so. Often, fast moving traffic or inconsiderate parkers at the school gates can be a real deterrent for those who might walk if the environment felt safer. So this Walk to School Week, we’re launching a campaign calling on government to make the walk to school safer and easier for everyone. As part of this, we’re inviting both children and parents to write to Prime Minister David Cameron to tell him about their walk to school and what they think needs to be done to make it safer and easier. During this episode, we’ll be talking about some of those stories, and discussing how the campaign aims to transform the walk to school with our Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Kevin Golding Williams. We’ll also be meeting Jack and Louis, a father and son who walk to school every day. And we’ll be running through some of the key facts and statistics with our stats expert, Tim Fitches. #walkthismay #WalktoWork #WalktoSchool

Happy National Walking Month! Living Streets is the national charity that stands up for pedestrians. This is the second in our special series of podcasts to celebrate National Walking Month, our annual campaign dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the benefits of walking. http://www.livingstreets.co.uk/national-walking-month The month focuses on how walking can take you to more than just a destination – it can take you to a clearer head, more family time, hidden treasures in your neighbourhood, a fatter wallet from savings on petrol or public transport, and a healthier environment. Each of the podcasts in this series will focus on a different benefit. As we get some healthy competition going in the run up to Walk to Work Week from 12-16 May, we’ll be investigating in this episode how walking can take you to better shape. In this second podcast, we’ll be meeting some of the people who’ve been getting into better shape through walking. We’ll meet Mark Higgins, who discovered that walking was a great way to both get to work and shed some extra pounds when he took part in Walk to Work Week 2013 – and learn what happened when he took it up longer term. We’ll meet Angie, part of a walking group in Doncaster, which was set up five years ago as part of a Living Streets project and has kept up the habit to this day. And we’ll be chatting through some of our stats expert Tim Fitches’ favourite facts and figures about walking and how it can improve your physical health. #walkthismay #WalktoWork #WalktoSchool

Happy National Walking Month! Living Streets is the national charity that stands up for pedestrians. This is the first in our special series of podcasts to celebrate #NationalWalkingMonth, which is our annual campaign dedicated to celebrating and raising awareness of the benefits of walking. The month focuses on how walking can take you to more than just a destination – it can take you to a clearer head, a better shape, more family time, hidden treasures in your neighbourhood, a fatter wallet from savings on petrol or public transport, and a healthier environment. Each of the podcasts in this series will focus on a different benefit. This one, to mark the launch of the month, will look at how walking can take you to a clearer head. This podcast includes interviews an interview with writer and teacher Maria Costas: http://thirtysomething.co/ and Beth Murphy, Head of Information at mental health charity Mind: http://www.mind.org.uk/ #walkthismay #WalktoWork #WalktoSchool