Why walk?

Walking regularly will make you feel good, and is good for your health. For adults, 30 minutes of walking five days a week dramatically cuts the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, obesity and some cancers. It also reduces cholesterol, lowers high blood pressure and is good for your sense of well-being.

Mobilise! more people, more active, more often!

Activities: Walking for Health

Why Walk?

Walking can help increase fitness and energy levels, assist weight loss, prevent and manage heart disease, strengthen bones, reduce stroke risk and diabetes, improve mental wellbeing, and much more!

It is a perfect activity for health, incorporating social benefits and it doesn’t require any special equipment, it really is as easy as stepping out your front door!

Using our different levels of walks, it allows you to build up gently. The current recommendations for physical activity is just 30 minutes a day of moderate activity, such as brisk walking, which is all it takes to feel a difference.

We work with a number of walking groups across Cornwall. These groups are sustained by volunteers who have undergone the walk leader training, and are hugely successful due to their hard work and commitment. The walk group leaders work to coordinate a varied timetable of walks, utilising the beautiful areas of Cornwall, leading walks up to 3 times a week in sun, rain and shine. These groups are the foundations of the Mobilise! Project; and we value their contribution to getting people more active through walking.

For more information please download our leaflet or alternatively you can download your nearest walking group programme from the home page.

The healing powers of a simple Cornish walk

Two years ago, Russell Thomas from Penzance was overweight, depressed and lonely. Having lived with type 1 diabetes since he was thirteen, he had recently also been diagnosed with Aspergers at the age of forty seven. On top of being unemployed, he found himself at the age of fifty one, unable to enjoy life.

“Two year ago I was in a pickle,” says Russell. “Most days found me struggling to cope with my diabetes and aspergers and I was very unhappy and felt alone. So when an occupational therapist suggested joining a walking group I was a little dubious. I couldn’t see how a few little strolls would help me cope with everything.”

Reluctantly and with little enthusiasm, Russell gave it a go and joined a walking group called Mobilise – run by UK charity Sustrans. Within weeks he began to realise how something so simple as walking could hugely improve his outlook on life as well as his health.