Join us for an update on the Active Travel movement locally in the park and share your vision for living well locally in a 20 Minute Neighbourhood.

20 Minute Neighbourhoods are places where people can live well locally by having the majority of their daily needs met within a walk, wheel or cycle of their doorstep, with benefits to wellbeing, local economy and environment.

The Scottish Government has recently targeted a reduction in the number kilometres travelled in car by 20%, by 2030. That's just 8 years away. To get there it makes several recommendations including:

• Stay local: chose a more local destination to meet your needs

• Switch mode: to walk, wheel, cycle, or use public transport where possible

Hear from the authors of the Drymen Active Travel Plan on progress and challenges in light of this national target, and share your ideas on the help rural places like Drymen and its surrounding villages will need in order to make active travel around the park safer and more attractive to all.

Ideas generated in this discussion will feed into FEL's ongoing consultation on how the 20 Minute Neighbourhood, or Living Well Locally, approach can provide rural place plans with future priorities that have the power to enhance quality of life for residents, and add weight of evidence to the need for wider changes to rural infrastructure if Scotland is to meet its ambitions for less car travel as it moves towards net zero .

Forth Environment Link will be joined by Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Countryside Trust and Drymen Community Development Trust

This event will be hosted online via Zoom and the link details will be sent to you after registering.

If you live locally to Drymen and surrounding villages, don't forget to take part in our survey for a chance to win in our prize draw. Prizes include £150 local food hamper, £50 voucher for a local eatery and 5 native trees planted in your name. You can find the Drymen survey here or the East of Loch Lomond survey here.

If there is anything else you would like to know or need in place to join our event, please get in touch with Stephanie@forthenvironmentlink.org