Still Walking through Lockdown 2
Five one-to-one walks throughout November.
During April and May this year, Still Walking offered a programme of one-to-one walks that made the best of the government restrictions and succeeded as active explorations of participants’ localities and allowing a more relaxed form of conversation. Unlike our usual events, these walks were laregly steered by the participants: no themes, locations, routes or conversation topics were prepared in advance.
The walks were a great success, booking out within a day and with many positive encounters and outlooks being shared en route, despite it being a time of great uncertainty and anxiety. The walks gave a platform to share some of these anxieties, expectations and outlooks. Many worthwhile local discoveries were shared, and new, regular walking routes were created.
Continuing in that spirit of resilience, and with plenty of uncertainty ahead, Still Walking is offering five more walks over this shorter Lockdown period, again adapted to your locality, current government protocols and the varying conditions of Covid-influenced urban culture. The walks are timed to coincide with dusk – and one full moon – and are principally aimed at people who may be concluding a day spent working at home. Our range is limited so we have created this map to show the area –now larger– in which the walks can take place, taking into account our own travel time to your locality.
Please only book if you already live inside this area... apologies if you live outside it or don’t find the timings amenable.
Government advice is to minimise the time you leave your house. Outside of your household members or support bubble, you are permitted to meet one other person. Accordingly, the walks can only be offered for one person at a time. Our recommendation is to make this your exercise for the day. Walks are likely to be an hour or slightly more, starting ahead of dusk at a location near your address (to be arranged by email some time ahead of the walk) and concluding after nightfall.
All are welcome to book, though you may like to pass on information to anyone you may feel will benefit from an accompanied walk.
We may need to adapt or even cancel walks if conditions or government protocols change.
Please don’t attend if you are feeling unwell or have been advised to self-isolate.
If you know you are clinically vulnerable please don’t book. People falling into this group include:
Solid organ transplant recipients.
People with specific cancers:
people with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy
people with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy
people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment
people having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer
people having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors
people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs
People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe COPD.
People with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as SCID, homozygous sickle cell).
People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection.
Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired.