- Council provides funds to help small businesses
- Financial help for keeping warm this winter
- Improve your health at York House
- Heathrow's airtrack train plan criticised
- Have your own say on Academies
- Mayor's Christmas invite
- Net closing on Council Tax cheats
- Step pedal jump your way to rugby!
- Borough has the lowest level of alcohol fueled crimes in London
- Play safe at Halloween warning
- Enjoy a week of entertainment at Heathfield centre
- Spreading the safety message
- New funding agreed to combat the recession
- Support your local lollipop person
- Disappointment as Boris' public transport costs rise
- Ham and Petersham win £100,000 for low carbon zone
- Borough children's favourite nursery rhyme revealed on Bookstart Day
- Eastender at East Sheen Library
- Destination Richmond
- Green fingers win prizes for winning allotments
- Free flood warnings for residents at risk in Richmond
- Huge turnout for older people's event
- RISE event success
- Best Cemetery Award for Richmond and East Sheen
- Take part in Black History Month celebrations
- World Sight Day celebrated
- Question time comes to Richmond
- 2M fears local people may loose out to Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
- 1,000 people control their social care budgets
- £2.85 million for new homes
- Richmond Council confirms sponsor for Shene Academy
- Richmond Council extends CO2 parking
Release Date: 29/10/2009
Step pedal jump your way to rugby
Children are being encouraged to walk, run and cycle their way around the borough, with the individual clocking up the most miles in a new Richmond Council led competition winning a digital camera.
More than 300 children took part in the launch of the Step, Pedal, Jump challenge, which is open to members of all the borough’s junior rugby clubs, who are aged five to 12 years old. It was launched at Teddington Rugby Club on Sunday, 25 October.
The Step, Pedal, Jump project, part of Richmond Council and Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Smarter Travel Richmond upon Thames programme, aims to encourage children to walk or cycle to their rugby club rather than arriving by car, and to think about travelling by bike or on foot for other journeys too.
Councillor David Trigg, Cabinet Member for Traffic, Transport and Parking on Richmond Council said: “We want to encourage our children to stay active throughout the year - taking part in sport regularly is a great start but they can add to that by jogging to their clubs instead of being driven.
“The more we can encourage children to exercise, the easier it will be to keep them fit and healthy and to learn that they don’t have to rely on mum and dad’s car.”
Ben Plowden, Director of Integrated Programme Delivery at TfL, said:
“By taking part in the Step, Pedal, Jump programme, young residents will not only reap the benefits of a more active lifestyle but will discover the freedom that walking or cycling can give. Travelling by bike or on foot are not only the greenest travel options, but often the quickest, cheapest and most convenient too.”
To stand a chance of winning the camera, competitors must keep a record of how they travelled for a minimum of eight journeys carried out by Sunday 6 December.
The journeys must be logged on the scorecard given out to youngsters at Sunday’s launch. At least four journeys must be to the individual’s rugby club. The other journeys could include trips to see family and friends, shopping or going to the cinema .
Teddington RFC chairman Gareth Cross said: “Step, Pedal, Jump is really important for us because of where we are in Bushy Park. Parking here’s really limited so we always encourage people to cycle or walk down.
It’s also a great way for the kids to get their warm up work done before they arrive, and most of them are brought down by their parents so it will make them think more about walking too.”
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