Organised by road safety charity Brake, Kids Walk sees UK primary school pupils taking part in short, supervised walks in their communities.
Schools signing up receive resources and lesson packs that help to teach vital road safety skills.
Official figures show that six children are killed or seriously injured on UK roads every day.
The Kids Walk is aimed at children aged 4 to 11 and last year 720 schools took part, reaching around 80,000 pupils.
Brake is campaigning for children’s right to make “safe and healthy journeys, on safe roads, free from the threat of traffic and pollution”. The campaign also aims to raise awareness among parents, carers and other adults in the community about the need to protect children on roads.
The education packs include lesson plans, assemblies, activities, posters and campaign boards for children to carry, highlighting the five things they need to walk and wheel safely in their communities, including safe footpaths, cycle paths and crossing places.
Brake has been coordinating walking events for pupils at a national level for more than 15 years. Chief executive Ross Moorlock said: “Education remains a key pillar of Brake’s strategy and we’re delighted to invite schools to take part in Brake’s Kids Walk in 2025. It is every child’s right to be able to walk safely in their community without fear of traffic and pollution.”
Brake is a national road safety charity, founded in 1995, that exists to stop deaths, serious injuries and pollution on roads, and to care for families bereaved and injured in road crashes.
Brake hosts Road Safety Week every November and is the national provider of care and support to victims of road crashes and their families via the National Road Victim Service, which helps families to cope with the shock, turmoil and devastation that road crashes can cause.
- For more information about the work of Brake, visit www.brake.org.uk and for more details and to sign up to Kids Walk, primary schools can visit www.brake.org.uk/kidswalk
- You can find the National Road Victim Service via www.brake.org.uk/how-we-help/get-help-if-a-crash-victim