About Step Up
If you are a young person (aged 11-18)
We want to know what you love and hate about your streets. If you were Prime Minister, how would you make the streets better for young people?
Do you walk to school? What’s it like? Paradise? Or a pile of poo? If you don’t walk to school because of the state of your streets, this is the place you can get your voice heard, and maybe even make a difference.
So grab a friend, pick up your camcorder, digital camera or mobile phone, and get out on the streets! Find out what young people where you live really think about their streets. Why not interview people at school, or even your local councillors?
Making videos is easy and really good fun. If you need some help to get started, take a look at our How to Guide. You’ll also need an adult from your school or youth project to register your film crew on the site, sort out the boring paperwork and upload your finished films. They might be able to sort out a camera for you as well.
If you have any questions or comments you can contact us at stepupvideo@livingstreets.org.uk
Almost forgot! We are Living Streets, we run Step Up. Step Up is funded by the Big Lottery Fund, and the video project got some extra money from Northern Film & Media. Thanks guys! Click the logos at the bottom of this page to find out more about our good friends.
P.S. Check out the Step Up website, where you will find loads of other ideas about how you can get involved in creating better streets, and more walking.
If you are an adult who works with young people
Funded by the Northern Film and Media and the Big Lottery Fund, the Step Up video project began in 2008 as a way for young people to share the experience of their school journeys with sustainable travel professionals at the Walk21 conference in Barcelona.
We’ve created this website so that young people across the UK can get their voices heard about the issues that are important to them, on their streets.
Participation in the video project will allow young people to develop technical and team-working skills. It’s a great citizenship activity for secondary school students and a way for young people in youth work settings to make a positive contribution to their communities.
Our Nuts and Bolts Guide has all of the information you need, to help them use video to explore and share their opinions and insights through web-based video messages and short films.
If you want to explore the issues further with young people, through youth–led campaigns for better streets or walking challenges at your school, take look at our website or get in touch with us at stepup@livingstreets.org.uk for more information