We encourage you to spend time on The Line for your health and wellbeing, whether that is walking, cycling, exercising or socialising.
In 2024, 93% of participants reported that attending The Line’s wellbeing walks has a sustained positive impact on their wellbeing with 100% reporting that it makes them spend more time outside and connect with local green spaces.
We actively support the health and wellbeing of our local communities by promoting access to green and blue spaces through creative engagement. Explore these pages to learn more about our Wellbeing Walks, Baby Steps and Retrace Your Steps programmes.
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1. Alaa Satir
2. Lorna Powell
The Line offers free, guided weekly wellbeing walks for anyone who might benefit from spending time outside.
Walks are led by an experienced mindfulness practitioner and qualified fitness coach and are co-facilitated by local young people through our Youth Guides programme. Each session incorporates a gentle walk along The Line’s route and mindfulness activities that combine creativity with responses to seasonal nature.
Our Wellbeing Walks have been developed in consultation with social prescribers and local GPs. Participants are either self-referred or formally referred through social prescribing.
“It’s really good to get out in the fresh air – feel the wind on your face. I love looking at the trees and birds and feel that green spaces are crucial to my well-being.”
– Wellbeing Walk participant
Through independent evaluation and research, we have found that these walks genuinely improve the lives and health of participants. In 2024, 93% of participants reported that attending wellbeing walks has a sustained positive impact on their wellbeing.
“I join the wellbeing walk as often as I can and find them refreshing and beneficial to my mental health.”
– Wellbeing Walk participant
Follow the link below to learn more about joining our Wellbeing Walks.
If you have any questions, concerns or feedback on the Wellbeing Walk, please get in touch via email: wellbeing@the-line.org.
“I have not felt able to be creative since my illness and this is the first time in ages that I’ve made something. I used to make art all the time”
– SubCo Trust Participant
Baby Steps is a series of free walks for mums-to-be or mums with children under 2, who live in Newham, and would like to meet other mothers in the local area.
The programme is designed to provide a friendly and welcoming environment for mums to connect with each other through nature-based walks along a section of The Line. Each session begins with a short walk along the river, incorporating relaxation exercises and gentle movement. After the walk, free refreshments are provided for the group to connect through conversation.
Baby Steps is delivered by Lead Facilitator Louize Williams and Co-facilitator Poppy Kanu. The project is delivered in collaboration with Vital Arts, and part of the Walking and Cycling Grants Programme.
Walking and Cycling Grants London is funded by Transport for London and The London Marathon Foundation, and administered by Groundwork London.
“It was a perfect balance between talking, thinking and being.”
– Participant
