- Choose a quiet location.
- Choose a quiet time.
- Be considerate of other visitors/users – stay a few hours, not all day.
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- Avoid popular honey pot sites - if there are lots of people it will be more difficult to stay 2 metres apart from others and observe social distancing.
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- Respect staff and volunteers.
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- Staff, volunteers and signage are there to help to keep everyone safe and healthy – please follow their instruction.
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- Don’t risk injury – protect the NHS and emergency services.
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- Now is not the time to end up in hospital.
- Respect other users of the space.
- For now:
- Choose familiar locations.
- Choose a safer activity.
- Choose an activity within your existing skills and experience level. Stick to low risk routes that you are familiar and comfortable with.
- Many Governing Bodies of Sport have produced Guidance for their own sport – have a look at the more detailed guidance relating to your chosen activity (see links below this table).
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- Keep your dog under control.
- Keep your dog away from other people.
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- Prevent your dog from approaching other people and their dogs, cyclists, livestock and wildlife.
- It is difficult to retrieve a dog while observing social distancing.
- Never let your dog worry or attack farm animals.
- Wildlife may have nested closer to paths while no-one was visiting – please give it a wide berth.
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- Clean your hands before and after your visit.
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- Continue to follow public health guidelines on handwashing.
- Remember hand hygiene if you touch any surfaces.
- Toilets and facilities may not be open. Consider this in your planning and make alternative arrangements for your own provisions as required.
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- Plan ahead.
- Check the site and facilities you need (such as car parks and toilets) are open before you leave home.
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- Plan your day around your needs and what will be available
- You can travel for outdoor recreation, but consider if you need to currently until all the services you need are open again - are car parks, toilets, baby changing, playgrounds and other facilities open?
- Have a look at the websites below this table for ideas of places to visit close to you and to check whether facilities are open.
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- Have a back-up plan if the venue is full when you reach it.
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- The car park may be full.
- Please do not park outside of designated parking spaces or on verges or gateways.
- If the site is very busy, social distancing may be difficult and it would be wise to consider alternative venues.
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- Keep the roads clear - don’t park at gates or on verges.
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- Make sure the Emergency Services, local farmers or local residents will be able to pass by and to access fields, forests, or houses. If a car park is full, go somewhere else.
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- Please take your rubbish home.
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- You can help everyone by taking your own litter home with you, especially at a time when staff and volunteers may be deployed elsewhere on site or reduced in numbers due to shielding.
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- Respect farm animals and wildlife.
- Leave gates as you found them.
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- Wildlife may have got used to you not being there and nested somewhere close by – please give nature some space to flourish.
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- For all to enjoy the outdoors and love the place.
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