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Life. Lived Better, Chapel House, Newcastle upon Tyne (2025)

Launched in Summer 2024, our weekly walks are a great way to inprove your physical, mental & social health.

28/09/2025

On Thursday, we took our final steps together as the ‘Life Lived Better’ walking group.

Looking back, we’re incredibly proud of the impact we made - both in numbers and in people’s lives:

• Around 100 walks over 15 months
• Around 1,500 participants in total
• Around 6,000 miles walked
• Around 525,000 calories burned

But the numbers only tell part of the story. Along the way, friendships were formed, conversations blossomed and many of those talks touched on mental health. The value of those moments is beyond measure.

We want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us - whether it was once or many times. Together, we’ve shown that when communities come together, life really can feel that little bit better.

Our goal was to create walking groups and, in time, expand into a wellness service that could make a difference in the face of today’s mental health challenges. While we didn’t achieve everything we hoped for, we are proud to say we gave it our all. If these walks helped even one person, every single step was worthwhile.

Thank you also to everyone who supported us by following, liking or sharing our posts. This page will remain active to share important messages around mental health and wellness, as well as promote other vital services.

Thank you,
Dean, Adam & James

04/09/2025

Hi Everyone. We just wanted to share a bit of a schedule update for our final month as a group.

We will be walking tonight and Thurs 11th, leaving at 7:45pm and meeting at Church of Holy Nativity.

The Walk on 18th Sept is cancelled due to Newcastle Utd playing Barcelona 😍.

Our final walk as a group will take place on Thurs 25th Sept - time TBC.

As we enter the final month, it would be brilliant to see some old faces at one of the last group walks. Over the last year, we’ve had 100+ different people join us and we’d love to see you again in September.

Thanks everyone.

Life. Lived Better

16/08/2025

After just over one year of launching our Community Walking Group, we are sad to announce that our last group walk as Life Lived Better will take place on Thursday 25th September 2025.

When we started the group in early 2024, our intention was to provide something that was accessible to our local community, walking and talking to improve mental health and to have a small impact on physical health. Gyms can be intimidating places for some people, while sport can be difficult to access for a whole host of health reasons. We hoped the Walking Group would fill that void and provide an alternative and initially, it really did, with over 40 walkers regularly attending our groups.

However, as the months went on and the winter hit, group numbers dwindled. We really hoped they’d pick back up in Spring and Summer, but sadly this has not been the case.

In January, we also introduced an annual £12 fee which we acknowledge has probably put some people off attending the group. However, this was something we had to do to cover Insurance costs, training and equipment costs such as first aid.

On top of this, all 3 of us have had major changes in our lives, with house moves and career changes impacting the amount of free time we have, which has impacted our ability to really focus on and grow the group.

All of this has ultimately meant we’ve decided we need to step away from the group. We are however open to discussing handing the group over if someone feels it’s something they could take on and grow (please message our page if so). In the meantime, it would be brilliant to see any of our former members on a walk between now and 25th September.

Finally, to our regular members, we honestly can’t thank all of you enough for coming along every week, in all sorts of weather, to make sure you all had a little bit of time to yourself and time to focus on you. We will miss seeing you all every week.

Thanks everyone

Dean, Adam and James.

Address

Chapel House
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Opening Hours

7:45pm - 9pm

Website

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