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Social media highlights from GM Walking Festival 2024

23/05/2024

The GM Walking Festival 2024 has been another huge success with hundreds of individuals, groups, and organisations getting moving throughout May in celebration of National Walking Month.

As the month of May draws to a close, we’ve taken a look through some of our social media highlights.

There’s still time to share your best moments from the festival, tag @GMWalks on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and we look forward to hearing more about you’re planning to keep moving throughout the rest of the summer here in Greater Manchester.

As Spring turns to Summer, May is a fantastic month for so many reasons with GM Moving CEO Hayley Lever taking the opportunity to enjoy nature during a walk.

Sport England were also quick to show their support for the GM Walking Festival, sharing the 300 free, group walks with their 135,000 followers on X (previously Twitter).

Immunologist & science communicator Professor Sheena was delighted to be part of this year’s festival with an event organised by Ardwick Climate Action, Lydia Becker Institute, and University of Manchester.

What a start! So much joy from pupils at Mersey Drive Primary School as they got involved with the The GM Walking Festival on 3 May.

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focused on movement allowing GM Moving partners to share the many amazing benefits that walking can have on our mental health, including the new GM Integrated Care Partnership.

Boost Wellbeing CIC were out enjoying being part of the GM Walking Festival, regardless of the weather. Great to see lots of happy faces.

There’s a growing movement for walking within younger adults so it was great to work alongside Girls Who Walk MCR to highlight the GM Walking Festival and the many benefits of walking to their followers on Instagram.

Meanwhile, students at Manchester Metropolitan University were also out enjoying the GM Walking Festival and sharing their experiences on Instagram.

Creative Living Centre, a mental health charity in Prestwich, were recipients of GM Walking Festival funding and used the investment to take members to the National Trust’s Castlefield Viaduct.

Northern Roots is creating the UK’s largest urban farm & eco park on 160 acres of stunning green space in the heart of Oldham, and used the festival as a way to show local people more about the heritage of their site.

Throughout the third week of May, Living Streets held their annual Walk to School week with children and parents encouraged to add movement to their daily journey to school and discover the Magic of Walking.

It was fantastic to see Bury’s Live Well service supporting Walk To School week as well as many other aspects of the GM Walking Festival as part of their efforts to help people to make positive changes to their lifestyle.

Medicare Foundation UK CIC shared the highlights of their walk which was designed to highlight sickle cell disease and blood donations.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of the 2024 GM Walking Festival. We hope you enjoyed moving more throughout May and will continue to embed walking into your everyday activities. We’ll be back with details of next year’s festival later in the year.

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