‘Shock and sadness’ as popular game promoting exercise will not return in 2019

By The Newsroom
Published 29th Jan 2019, 12:09 BST
Updated 7th Feb 2019, 19:36 BST
Beat the Street ran across East Sussex for two years. Pictured are pupils from Battle and Langton Primary SchoolBeat the Street ran across East Sussex for two years. Pictured are pupils from Battle and Langton Primary School
Beat the Street ran across East Sussex for two years. Pictured are pupils from Battle and Langton Primary School
Beat the Street, a free game which encouraged people across East Sussex to exercise and improve their health, will not be running in 2019, writes Ben Knapton.

The fitness-based initiative saw children and adults rewarded for walking, running or cycling to various ‘Beat Boxes’ throughout the area.

By tapping their card on some of the hundreds of sensors located on lampposts across the county, players would have the chance to win thousands of pounds’ worth of prizes through a fun, innovative way of exercising.

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Last year, Beat the Street players travelled a total distance of 239,704 miles from June 6 to July 25. The game was funded by NHS Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group, NHS Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG and East Sussex County Council’s Public Health team.

Dr and Mrs Wycherley, of Peartree Lane in Bexhill, said: “As advocates of personal fitness and individual well-being, we understand with shock and great sadness that Beat the Street will not be r