The Clean Air Challenge
Walk, wheel, scoot and cycle for cleaner air!
The Clean Air Challenge is a free event for Hampshire primary schools, designed to inspire healthier and greener journeys. By taking part, your school will help promote the benefits of active and sustainable travel for cleaner air, better health and improved wellbeing for the whole school community.
This year's challenge takes place from 15 to 19 June. Let’s get as many families as possible walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling throughout the week - and beyond!
Take part, make a difference... and your school could win an amazing prize!
Register your school now to join the Clean Air Challenge. We'll email all the resources and competition information ahead of the challenge, so you'll have everything you need to get involved.
Sign up for The Clean Air Challenge 2026 by Thursday 11 June
The Clean Air Challenge 2025
Last year, 61 schools took part in the week-long challenge to promote cleaner air through active travel.
We had some amazing entries to our schools’ competition showing some of the inspiring active travel initiatives orga
nised during the week. Activities included, bling your wheels events, active travel parades, assemblies, week-long promotion, poster competitions, active travel breakfasts and skateboarding Headteachers!!
Further information and resources
Air Quality – Resources and information about air quality and The Clean Air project.
Travel Initiative Quick Guides - A set of resources designed to facilitate the promotion and implementation of active travel initiatives in schools, including air quality initiatives.
A Wild Walk to School - For KS1, this book focuses on the air quality benefits of travelling actively to school. The story demonstrates an active journey to school enables time to be spent looking at nature.
A Right Royal Adventure - For KS2, the story focuses on the history of air quality and how we can influence the future.
My Journey Scooter Challenge Stickers - A sheet of fun Scooter Challenge stickers featuring our scooting and wheeling birds. The sheet is compatible with Avery L7161 label template.
My Journey Scooting Film - Meet Baron Karl Von Drais de Saurbrun, who invented the 'street walker' in 1817. He speaks on the importance of making a positive environmental difference in your local community and how greater exercise and active travel can benefit all.
Scooter Training – The Scooter Challenge could be a great opportunity to do some scooter training in school, try out these in-school scooter training guidelines for teachers.
Scooting to School – Includes some top tips to share with pupils for scooting safely.
Start Scooting – A great information sheet from Sustrans about getting going with scooting.