The Beat the Street challenge taking place across Paulton, Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Westfield, Peasedown St John and Timsbury has entered its Go Active themed week to encourage participants to find new activities and sports to try out.

The idea is that people will find something that they might not have tried before to help them continue to keep up their new active habits after the Beat the Street competition comes to an end on Wednesday, 28th June and to explore the sports and leisure options on offer. 

More than 4150 people have signed up to play the Beat the Street Somer Valley game and together, participants have together walked, cycled, wheeled, run and scooted an incredible 27,459 miles so far in the competition.

Anyone of any age is invited to take part and you can still get involved now by picking up a card from one of the distribution points on www.beatthestreet.me/somervalley or players over the age of 13 can download the free Beat the Street app.

Teams of all varieties including schools, community groups and workplaces have been battling it out for the past several weeks across the average and total points leaderboards to take home prizes of vouchers that are available for local leisure activities, experiences, shops and restaurants. There are also prizes for individuals and ‘lucky spot’ prizes just for taking part.

Currently, St John’s Primary School is top of the total points leaderboard; their 529 players have clocked up 146,800 points. In second place, St Benedict’s Primary School’s 299 players have clocked up 120,140 points and in third place, Midsomer Norton Primary School’s 401 players have clocked 96,920 points.

This week is Go Active where players are invited to try out new leisure activities including double points on Beat Box number 17 on Thursday, 15th June from 10am to 12pm at Dragonfly Leisure.

Councillor Sarah Warren, Cabinet member for Climate and Sustainable Travel said: “The aim of Beat the Street is to encourage communities to become more active and to incorporate those healthy habits over the long-term so they become part of people’s lifestyles.  The Go Active themed week is a celebration of all the ways you can get moving in and around the area and a fabulous opportunity to try out something new without any pressure.”

Beat the Street Somer Valley is being delivered by Intelligent Health and has been commissioned by The Active Way. The Active Way is led by Bath & North East Somerset Council and funded by Active Travel England. Additional funding has been provided by the National Lottery via Sport England.

More information is available at www.beatthestreet.me/Somervalley and on social media, under the handle: @BTSSomerValley