Fareham’s ‘Walking to Health’ celebrates its 6th Anniversary in Locks Heath’s Holly Hill Woods on 28th July – take your camera too!

Fareham’s ‘Walking to Health’ initiative will be celebrating

its sixth year with a special anniversary walk on 28th July in Locks

Heath’s beautiful Holly Hill Woodland Park. The free walk organised by Walking

to Health volunteers and the Council's Community Development Officer will begin at 11am and will last for about an hour. There’ll be refreshments on

offer from 'The Friends of Holly Hill', but take a picnic too.

The Mayor and Mayoress of Fareham, Councillor Brian and

Councillor Susan Bayford will be joining the walk and helping to celebrate six years of this successful healthy initiative.

Executive Member for Community, Councillor Connie Hockley

said: "Since we started the Walking to Health initiative in 2004,

approximately 7,000 people have walked approximately 30,000 miles, led by ten qualified and extremely dedicated volunteer walk leaders. Congratulations to

all those involved in this fantastic scheme and here's to the next six

years!"

Unbeknown to most of us, 'Friends of Holly Hill', the

voluntary group who jointly maintain Holly Hill Woods with Fareham Borough

Council, have for this past year been struggling to find a replacement for

their outgoing Chairman David Redwood and Secretary. The

group would, in fact, have dissolved had founder members Councillor David

Swanbrow and his wife Jane not stepped in to take the role as Chairman and

Secretary respectively themselves, accompanying Dave Munday, the new Treasurer.

Coincidentally it was David and Jane Swanbrow who kicked off the Walking for Health programme as Mayor and Mayoress of Fareham in 2004!

Both David and Jane have very busy lives. They

expressed a hope that others would come forward to take on the roles of

Chairman and Secretary in the future. If you are interested

and feel you could help take a look at the Friend’s Website.

Walking to health’s July Programme can be seen here. For more

information about other walks offered in Fareham contact Emma on

01329 824440.

This summer also

sees the launch of ‘Postcards from the Park’ 2010 - a national photography

competition organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Big Lottery Fund and

parks charity GreenSpace.

Now in its fourth

year, this competition is continuting to grow with thousands of entries

received each year. Categories include wildlife, heritage and people at play.

It’s worth entering as the

overall winner receives £1,000 of Jessops vouchers, and finalists will be in

with a chance of winning an overnight stay in London and seeing their photo

exhibited at a London Gallery.

The closing date

is Sunday 1 August 2010. To enter look here.

Remember you can

always show off your good pictures by uploading them into a gallery on

LocksHeathPeople.