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The team hope to make the canal a safe place for all. Increase the amount of lifebuoys in the area to increase personal safety. Increase the potential for people to use the canal as a place to become more active by regularly walking the canal. People will be more aware of the wildlife around them as they walk the canal and the possible environmental impact of misusing the facility.
Our Social Issue
Health and Wellbeing
Why We Chose It
Everyone is becoming more aware of the importance of looking after your physical health and wellbeing. Covid and the restrictions it brought highlighted the importance of how our physical wellbeing is closely related to our mental and emotional health. However you don't always have to use expensive apps or gyms to look after your physical health or your wellbeing, sometimes people have local amenities available that they either aren't aware of or they have forgotten about. That is what we focused on, encouraging people to use a local facility to look after their wellbeing and health.
Our Goal
Our overall idea is to encourage people to use the canal to improve their mental and physical wellbeing by helping them feel a sense of connection to their local amenity, the canal. 1) create a series of QR codes that are placed along the walk, that bring people to our website which provides them with; three maps of walks of varying difficulty and seats, where the life buoys are, fact sheets on local biodiversity and heritage, colouring sheets, meditative soundscape,etc. 2) Social media campaign to raise awareness 3) Primary school visits to engage the young
Our Innovative Action
We have tested and adapted our project. We have created a logo, action plan, fundraising plan and communications powerpoint for our school TV monitor system. We have begun to set up our website. We are collecting the wood for our QR codes. We are creating our fact sheets for the website. We are creating education packs for primary school students.
Our Impact
Everyone in the class has learned how to plan, reflect, critique, change and adapt as part of this plan. We have yet to bring our website live so that it is open to the general public but we hope that when it is it will improve the lives of locals who will hopefully be prompted to use the QR codes.