Beat the Street Paisley Winners

The recent Beat the Street challenge has come to an end across Paisley!

The Beat the Street game invited local people of all ages to walk, cycle and wheel as far as possible around the area during the six-week challenge in return for points and prizes.

A total of 9,451 players signed up and together clocked up a total of 81,327 active travel miles.

The winners are:

Schools -total points

1. Todholm Teresa’s Primary School
2. Bushes Primary School
3. Lochfield Primary School
4. St James’ Primary School

Schools – average points

1. St Paul’s Primary School
2. St James’ Primary School
3. Lochfield Primary School
4. Bushes Primary School

Empowered Primary School – total points

Mary Russell Primary School

Community and workplace – total points

1. The Wild Girls
2. Abbey Nursery and Friends
3. Foxlea SLCC
4. Southend Smoothies

Community and workplace- average points

1. The Wild Girls
2. Southend Smoothies
3. Abbey Nursery and Friends
4. Foxlea SLCC

Small teams- total points

1. A&R

Individual leaderboard

1. Grant FR

Additionally, the community’s achievement in clocking up the miles during the six-week game means that MND Scotland will also benefit from a £500 donation.

Beat the Street Paisley has been commissioned by Renfrewshire Council with support from Paths for All’s Smarter Choices, Smarter Places programme. It is being delivered by Intelligent Health.

Depute Provost Cathy McEwan said: “I want to thank everyone who took part in Beat the Street Paisley for making it such a success.

“With more than 9,000 people taking part, it’s been incredible to see so many people walking, running, cycling and scooting around the town to get to the beat boxes.

“This will have such a positive impact on people’s health and activity levels and we hope that more and more people will continue to choose active travel methods to get to work and school.

“We want to continue the momentum created why not join our Not Far? Leave the Car campaign where you can earn points that can be turned into prizes and discounts at hundreds of Renfrewshire businesses.”

The Not Far? Leave the Car campaign encourages people in Renfrewshire to download the free BetterPoints app to track their journeys without the car.

Any journey of walking, cycling, scooting and even public transport will earn points and these can be exchanged for discounts at more than 100 local businesses.

People can sign up at www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/leavethecar.