What is Walk Together?
We have a big ambition, we want to inspire people in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland to walk more often, particularly those who currently don't incorporate walking into their everyday lives. We want to help you find your own motivation to walk.
Walk Together offers a regular programme of free, sociable, and accessible group walks within Leicestershire and Rutland led by trained volunteer walk leaders. Walk Together is coordinated, developed and delivered via a partnership between Active Together and your Local Physical Activity and Health teams.
Walk Together guided walks are ideal for people who have done little to no exercise in the past. They vary in length, typically between 45 - 60 minutes, on well maintained, flat surfaces. Every walk encourages individuals to go at their own pace, and there will always be a Walk Leader to ensure no one is left behind.
Find your nearest Walk Together group here
Download our Walking Guidebook
Includes top tips to walk more everyday, ideas for family walks, walking with a health condition and much more. Let's Get Moving!
Walk Together Walking Guidebook
Want to choose your own walking route?
The best way to get around Leicestershire is on foot. Most sights and attractions are within a short stroll, and many of our city centre streets are pedestrianised. Click here to access the best walking maps throughout Leicestershire.
Sometimes you want to explore a new place by foot and find local routes that you never knew existed.
Choose How You Move have many walking maps and guides for areas across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. These give you the opportunity to find new walks and keep things interesting.
You can also find family walks, historic walks, quizzes, and much more!
Frequently Asked Questions
Hear from our Walk Together Champions!
Other ways to get involved
You can walk at any pace, alone or with others. You could bring a dog or a buggy and even use walking poles if you have them. View the local parkruns available.
Receive a tailored walking plan to help you increase your daily steps at a pace that works for you. For anyone 18+ wanting to become more active or living with a long-term health condition such as diabetes or obesity. *For FREE access use code: Let’s Get Moving*
Visit 'what's around my way' to find your local parks, open spaces, walking and cycling routes. Plus, find some ideas on what to do when you get there!
The Ramblers is a charity dedicated to removing barriers so everyone can enjoy walking in green spaces and to preserving and improving hundreds of thousands of miles of well-loved paths, tracks and trails across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Upcoming walks in Leicester City
There are lots of events happening in Leicester and Leicestershire that you could take part in. Take a look at our upcoming events here.
Subscribe to the FREE Leicester City Council monthly newsletter.
Explore the different walking routes throughout Rutland.
Oakham Canal Green Corridor Project
Guided History Walks, Guided Nature Walks and Guided Bat Walks - join these free walks jam-packed with historical anecdotes and information about the canal. You can also download our Self Guided Walk leaflet and take it along with you under your own steam!
Live Well Leicester - Upcoming Walks
Live Well Leicester offers a wide range of free led health walks across Leicester.
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Volunteering in physical activity and sport has so many great benefits. Here you'll find many useful links to get involved - including walking opportunities.
Active Apps
If Ordnance Survey maps aren't for you, why not explore the wealth of new walking apps that exist.
From walk mapping to interactive adventures, whether you're exploring new parts of your local area or venturing further afield to achieve your daily step count, we've rounded up some of the best apps to map and guide you and your family on your way!
Find new walks based on your location. Simple photo guides help you navigate while nifty tips point out things of interest. Sign up to walking challenges or even upload your own walks!
A community of runners, walkers, and cyclists who combine regular exercise with charity to help out local communities.
Anonymously record every minute of walking you do. Just pop your phone in your pocket and away you go! The app tracks your steps, shows you your achievements and gives you tips to boost your activity.
Walkmeter tracks more than 250 statistics, plus maps, graphs, splits, intervals and zones, temperatures and weather conditions. It shows you terrain and traffic with Google Maps. Hands-free use with voice-control!
An additional safety feature we were particularly impressed with was the option to share live tracking with friends (by invitation only). Apple Watch users can also pair this with the app for a more personalised experience.
A particularly fun and educational way to map your walks, World Walking enables you to select from over 400 of the world’s most famous trails to build up your step rate over time.
Users can select from routes such as Selma to Montgomery, Route 66 or Peru’s Machu Picchu Trail and tot up their steps to complete it. Created by cardiac rehabilitation instructor Duncan Galbraith, the app also encourages users to form virtual walking clubs with other users to achieve their targets together.
There are millions of geocaches hidden around the world. The Geocaching app provides tips and descriptions, has maps and driving directions, and even allows you to message other players for tips and hints as you look for caches in your region.
It even tells you the difficulty, terrain, and size of the cache you’re looking for, so you can choose to treasure hunt depending on those preferences.
Wherever you are, PictureThis can identify the local or global species of plants, flowers, and trees that you’re bound to encounter outdoors.
The app is also a handy companion if you’re exploring with curious children or pets, so you can keep them away from plants that are toxic to them.
If your child is a budding bug hunter, they will surely enjoy Picture Insect. The app allows you to take pictures, or even just upload photos, of insects so that it can identify them for you.
One of the perks of spending the night outdoors, walking and exploring, is that you’re away from the light pollution, allowing you to see the night sky above your head. Star Walk 2. It is a stargazing app that uses your device’s sensors and GPS to identify the stars, planets, and constellations in the night sky.
Identify dog breeds using your camera, or by uploading a photo. The app can identify mixed breeds too! There are opportunities to catch every dog breed, much like Pokemon Go.
You're performing the exercises linked from our website at your own risk
Whilst every effort has been made to verify the information on the Active Together and associated pages, Active Together is not responsible for the accuracy or content of external websites. Whilst taking part in physical activity, participants should ensure they take part at a level which is appropriate to them and their health and are responsible for ensuring they check the credentials and health and safety requirements for each activity. It is recommended that participants follow the Chief Medical Officers Guidelines for physical activity. Participants will choose to utilise these links and take part in activities at their own risk.
If you're unsure about your ability, it might be wise to start gradually and build up. Please feel free to refer to the UK Chief Medical Officer's Physical Activity Guidelines when determining the level of activity appropriate to you.
Make sure you warm up and cool down to prevent injury, and make sure you keep hydrated.
Stop the exercises immediately if you feel faint or unwell, and if you still feel dizzy or unwell have a rest. Next time try something less strenuous, building up your activity gradually.
