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May 27, 2017
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The Results! Colchester Walking Challenge

Well done to everyone who took part in the Walking Challenge!

Eleven local organisations took part with 135 people walking. Collectively we racked up a stonking 452,818 activity points!  

Individual winners

Everyone walking at least the recommended 150 minutes for both weeks (at least 750 activity points) was entered into a free prize draw. The winners were:

 1st - Danielle Woraker from Colchester Borough Council  who wins a £25 Fenwick Voucher

2nd - Lisa Cherry from the University of Essex who wins a pair of tickets for the Laughter Zone at the Colchester Arts Centre

3rd - Robert Diamond from Ingleton Wood who wins a pair of cinema tickets.

Active Travellers

54 people walked for Active Travel and collectively would have saved 383kg of CO2 had they done the same journey by car.

The top 20 Active Travellers were entered into a free prize draw and we are pleased to announce that the lucky winner is Natasha Sayers from Colchester Institute who wins afternoon tea for 2 at Wivenhoe House!

Top Walker

We thought it would also be good to reward the top walker too. So Katy Scott from CHUFT wins a pair of tickets for the Laughter Zone at Colchester Arts Centre having racked up a whopping 21,178 activity points over the two weeks.

Thanks again to the Arts Centre, University of Essex, Fenwick and the Odeon for donating the prizes.

Finally a shout out for our top workplaces and departments.

Winning Workplaces

The top three workplaces with the highest average activity points were:

1st CHUFT

2nd Colchester Institute

3rd Colchester Borough Council

 

Winning Departments (more than one participant)

The top three departments with the highest average activity points were:

1st Clinical Audit at CHUFT

2nd The Walkie Talkies team from CBC

3rd Facilities Department from Colchester Institute

Thanks for joining in.

Here is the full leaderboard for participating workplaces.

  Company

 No of participants

 Average activity points
1st
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust (Colchester General Hospital)
5

 7535
2nd

 Colchester Institute (Colchester Campus and all sites)

 31

 3828
3rd

 Colchester Borough Council (Rowan Hse & Shrub End)

 63

 2948
4th

 University Of Essex (Colchester Campus)

 20

 2774
5th

 Ingleton Wood LLP (Colchester)

 7

 1813
6th

 Essex County Council (Essex House, Colchester)

 3

 661

Well done to the individuals at these workplaces who signed up to the challenge.

7th

 Ringway Jacobs (Smo 2)

 1

 14,007
8th

 Babcock International Group (Colchester)

 1

 9631
9th

 NHS North East Essex Ccg

 1

 1,768
10th

 Provide (Provide HQ, Colchester)

 1

 1,723
11th

 Inntel

 1

 100

We hope you enjoyed the challenge and are feeling the health benefits? Look out for the cycling challenge coming up next month! 

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Nov 10, 2014
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CBC gets social

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Inspired by the success of CBC’s walking and cycling challenges earlier in the year, Helen O’Halloran, a keen cyclist working within Professional Services at CBC, along with her colleague Suzanne Norton arranged a social weekend cycle ride and walk around Highwoods Country Park.

Helen said ‘It was a beautiful bright and sunny day and was lovely to see so many friendly faces coming along with their families to enjoy the weather and beautiful surroundings.’

Ten people, including four kids joined the cycle ride and fifteen  people, including eight kids and two dogs came along for the walk around the park. With a couple of chocolate stops along the way, both ride and walk finished up with a lunch and a few beverages in the local pub. Everyone agreed how nice it was to catch up with people outside of work, that  it had been a great success and something they would like to do on a regular basis..

Other dates are currently being discussed, so CBC staff, watch out for another invitation to join the PSU again soon!

Have any of your sustainable travel promotions at work, inspired colleagues to organise their own events? Let us have your stories!

 

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Sep 19, 2014
emilyharrup
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Standing Together Walk 27 September

The Safer Colchester Partnership has organised a community walk on the 27th September to reclaim the pathway of the two recent murder scenes in Colchester.  The walk will take a route from one murder scene to the other in remembrance and to demonstrate the local community Standing Together. This is the route where you can see where the walk will start and finish along with various check points on route.

This is an open invitation for anyone to join the walk on the 27th September. So please feel free to pass it on to colleagues, friends and family members who you feel would like to join the walk.

If you need further information please contact Joanne Wood, Community Initiatives Project Assistant, Colchester Borough Council & Safer Colchester Partnership. Tel No: 01206 506943 joanne.wood@colchester.gov.uk

 

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May 14, 2013
emilyharrup
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Pledge to walk for the chance to win £100 worth of shoe vouchers

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Perfect Purdy over at LoveUrCarColchester is getting people out of their cars and on to their feet and is offering you the chance to win £100 worth of shoe vouchers. All you need to do is pledge to walk for short trips rather than taking the car.

Walking for short journeys is not only better for the environment and your health but is also better for the car. Short journeys don’t give the engine or catalytic convertor time to reach their operating temperature and efficiency, meaning more wear and tear.

So if you love your car and love Colchester, give your car a rest and join Purdy. What pledge will you make to change at least one of your short car trips for your feet instead?

Make your pledge between Monday 22 April and Friday 31 May to be entered into the prize draw. The winner will be drawn on Monday 3 June.

What’s coming up?

27 September - CTPC members meeting at Cygnet Healthcare

6 October - University of Essex Fresher's fair

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