Beat the Street East Kilbride 2024 winners announced

Local residents, businesses, and community groups across East Kilbride have together spent the past six weeks walking, cycling and wheeling as part of the Beat the Street challenge.

Article Source: Beat the Street
Last Updated: 7 November 2024 13:28

Once again, the town was transformed into a giant real-life game to encourage people to think about walking or cycling 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.

The winners are:

Schools - Total points
1. St Kenneth’s Primary School (pictured)
2. Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School
3. Crosshouse Primary School
4. Mossneuk Primar School

Schools – average points
1. Greenburn Primary School
2. St Hilary’s Primary School
3. St Louise’s Primary School
4. Mount Cameron Primary School

Little active stars- total points
1. Auldhouse Primary School

Highest school percentage participation award
1. Our Lady of Schools Primary School

High schools – total points
1. Friends of St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School

Community and workplace teams – total points
1. EKCC Juniors
2. 2nd/7th EK BB
3. Universal Connections and Friends

Community and workplace teams – average points
1. 2nd/7th EK BB
2. EKCC Juniors
3. Universal Connections and Friends

Small teams
1. The Garritys

Individual leaderboard – adults
1. Silent Echo

Individual leaderboard – children
1. Olly T

The Chair of South Lanarkshire 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 Kilbryde Hospice to a £500 donation too. 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 is being delivered by Intelligent Health on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council. The project is supported by South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture and is funded by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

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