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CHSS Awareness Week
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) invites you to help us celebrate our Awareness Week by getting active and taking steps to improve your health.
- Step Out for Scotland
- Activity ideas – some suggestions
- CHSS events
- Awareness week resource pack
- Promote your event!
Step Out for Scotland with us and find out how easy it is to increase your physical activity and work towards a healthier future. Our message this year is simple. Everyone can take steps to be more active, whatever your ability. Whatever you do – and it can be as simple as walking, gardening housework or dancing – it all counts and it can be great fun too!
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Activity ideas – some suggestions
- Organise a walking event in a local park for colleagues or group members / volunteers / carers / friends and family.
- During the week's activities see if you can combine your gym efforts to 'row across Loch Lomond' on the rowing machine, 'walk from Edinburgh to Glasgow or Inverness' on the treadmill or 'climb Ben Nevis' on the stepper.
- The CHSS shops will be organising short local walks and 'buy one get one half price' offers. Go along and support them.
- Organise a 'Bring your Pets' walk.
- Get on the dance floor, ballroom, jive or jigging along from your chair – dance is great exercise. Why not organise a mammoth sponsored line dance and combine exercise with fundraising for CHSS?
- Set up sponsored lunchtime walks with your workmates and choose a new route each day.
- Organise a treasure hunt round some local places of interest. Be sponsored to leave the car behind for any journey less than 2 miles for a day or for the whole of Awareness Week! Encourage your friends and family to take part in the challenge.
- Count the number of steps you take in a day. Use pedometers to see who does the most and set a challenge to increase your daily total by 10%.
- Organise a sporting event such as curling, bowls, rounders or golf.
- Set yourself a challenge to complete in the garden. Plant your 2011 spring bulbs in CHSS colours!
- Try out a seated exercise routine in your group and pick a lively backing track!
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CHSS events
The week will get off to an early start with the Dee Don Walkathon in Aberdeen on Saturday 2nd October. This popular short walk along the promenade will be launched by football legend Joe Harper who had a stroke a few years ago and is a keen supporter of CHSS. Then on Sunday 3rd October, our Ultimate Abseil offers the chance to drop 165ft from the iconic Forth Rail Bridge. This event has already raised well over £1 million for CHSS and the other charities which have taken part over the years and we're hoping for a bumper turn out this time. The week ends with a bang with our Cairngorm Charmer, a challenging and very successful relay event set in the spectacular scenery of the Cairngorm National Park.
Information about any of these events can be found online or by phoning:
Fundraising hotline: 0800 31 60 555
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Awareness week resource pack
You can download the following Awareness Week resources ( see Related documents):
- Awareness Week poster (with space at the bottom for you to promote your own event)
- CHSS activity sheet
- 'Just Move!' factsheet
- Awareness Week letter
- Awareness Week order form
If you need further resources please email Step Out for Scotland
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Promote your event!
If you want details of your event included in the press release we send out to your local paper please:
- Email: PR Department
- Fax: 0131 220 6313 (for attention of PR dept)
Many thanks for supporting this year's Awareness Week and
good luck with all your
Step Out for Scotland activities.
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