Step Up is part of Living Street's Walk to School Campaign.

Living Streets brings our streets to life with more people walking in people-friendly spaces. We are the charity that has run the hugely successful Walk to School Campaign in primary schools for the last 14 years.

Step Up is our new campaign aimed at secondary schools, to encourage students to walk for at least 15 minutes (or all the way!) on their journey to school.

Living Streets' Step Up is part of a portfolio of projects being delivered by a Consortium of the leading walking cycling and health organisations and funded through the Big Lottery Fund's Wellbeing Programme. The Programme provides funding to support the development of healthier lifestyles and to improve well-being.

The Consortium is led by Sustrans and includes British Cycling, CTC, Cycling England, Living Streets, London Cycling Campaign, the National Heart Forum, the National Obesity Forum, the Ramblers' Association, Campaign for Better Transport and Walk 21. It is delivering a portfolio of projects that will enable 2 million people nationwide to become more physically active by walking or cycling as part of their daily lives by 2012.

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004.

The campaign currently only has funding to be run in England, but we hope to expand to other regions, or share our ideas with other countries, shortly.