Winners of East Kilbride’s latest Beat the Street challenge
Published: Thursday 7 November 2024
Locals across East Kilbride have spent the past six weeks taking on the Beat the Street challenge once again.
Local residents, businesses, and community groups have transformed the town into a giant real-life game to encourage people to think about walking, cycling and wheeling instead of driving and to explore green spaces and waterways.
More than 13,000 people of all ages signed up to take part and together clocked up an active travel mileage tally of 121,628 miles.
Primary School winners:
Total points
- St Kenneth’s
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Crosshouse
- Mossneuk
Average points
- Greenburn
- St Hilary’s
- St Louise’s
- Mount Cameron
Little active stars- total points - Auldhouse
Highest school percentage participation award - Our Lady of Lourdes
High schools:
Total points - Friends of St Andrew’s and St Bride’s
Community and workplace teams – total points
- EKCC Juniors
- 2nd / 7th EK BB
- Universal Connections and Friends
Community and workplace teams – average points
- 2nd / 7th EK BB
- EKCC Juniors
- Universal Connections and Friends
Small teams - The Garritys
Individual leaderboard – adults - Silent Echo
Individual leaderboard – children - Olly T
The chair of the council’s Community and Enterprise Resources Committee, Councillor Robert Brown, said: “The Beat the Street East Kilbride game has one again been a massive success and has encouraged people to replace those shorter car journeys with a walk or cycle instead.
“The competitive element of the game has really encouraged people to get out and about and as an added bonus, the community has helped raise £500 for Kilbryde Hospice.
“Although the game may be over for now, Beat the Street will continue to encourage participants to stay active and to highlight exciting local initiatives and opportunities to keep people moving.”
Beat the Street East Kilbride was delivered by Intelligent Health on behalf of the council and was supported by South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture and funded by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.
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