30th September 2021
GO TRAVEL FOR BONUS POINTS IN SWINDON’S BEAT THE STREET CHALLENGE THIS WEEK
News from Beat the Street Swindon
More than 27,000 people have signed up to play Beat the Street Swindon 2021. That’s more than the total number of players in the 2019 game!
This week, the game enters its Go Travel themed week. Here players can clock up double points on Beat Boxes around traditional commuting hours.
Go Travel Week
From Wednesday, 29th September, it’s ‘Go Travel’ week. In this one, BTS encourages people to think about walking or cycling to work or school rather than taking the car. For those working at home you can ‘commute’ around your local area to start and finish your day with extra activity.
Participants in Beat the Street Swindon have already racked up almost 150,000 active travel miles. And there’d still time to get involved!
About Beat the Street
Beat the Street invites players of all ages to take part in the free game that encourages people to get active in return for prizes. The game encourages local residents to ditch the car, and walk, scoot, wheel, cycle or run instead. The teams that travel the furthest can win book vouchers or trophies. And there are individual spot prizes simply for taking part.
Collect a card and map from one of the distribution points listed on www.beatthestreet.me/swindon
Then join a team and start playing!
The scores on the doors
There are total and average points leaderboards for schools, community teams and charities with vouchers for the teams that travel the furthest.
Haydonleigh Primary School leads the total points leaderboard, with St Francis Primary School and Orchid Vale in second and third place.
Jenny Hulse from Bridlewood Primary School said: ‘The children are very excited to be playing Beat the Street once more. We’ve started our Tuesday night Beat the Street Club, where 45 children have been busy tapping Beat Boxes for an hour after school.’
Taking place until Wednesday, 27th October, Beat the Street is transforming Swindon into a real-life game. Players are busy tapping special sensors called Beat Boxes dotted across the town.
Partnership
Beat the Street comes to you via Swindon Borough Council working in partnership with Wiltshire and Swindon Sport (WASP), and Swindon Healthy Schools. Intelligent Health deliver it.
Councillor Brian Ford, Swindon Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Adults and Health said: “We’re so enjoying seeing people getting out and playing the game. It’s great to see people of all ages making the most of Beat the Street and incorporating an hour of exercise into their daily routines.
As well as having a positive benefit on our health,it has a positive impact on our environment.’
To find out more about the Beat the Street game, click onto www.beatthestreet.me/swindon
To find out other ways you can stay active and reduce your impact on the environment, visit the Be the Change webpages:www.swindon.gov.uk/bethechange
