What is the Get Kids Active program?
Active kids are happy, healthy and curious kids. Moving more and spending time outdoors helps growing kids to stay happy, healthy and switched on at school.
The Get Kids Active program is all about making it safer, easier and more fun for kids to walk and ride to and from school.
The school run can be an adventure. It's a chance to leave the car at home and enjoy a relaxing walk, with time to talk or go on a fun bike ride and burn up some energy!
Walking or riding together also helps parents and carers talk about road safety, reduce traffic congestion and is a greener choice for you, your family and the community.
The program includes:
- Funding for infrastructure and street improvements around schools for walking and riding.
- Improving walking and riding amenities at schools such as bike and scooter racks and repair stations on school grounds.
- Encouraging walking and riding to and from school via education and behaviour change initiatives
What we're doing to help school kids get active
The Get Kids Active program makes neighbourhoods friendlier for school kids and their families. Find out more about how the program is being delivered.
Transport for NSW Get Kids Active - Year in review 2025
Video: See how Get Kids Active helped kids walk and ride more in 2025.
Street improvements around schools for walking and riding
We're funding projects to help improve local streets with new or upgraded footpaths, bike paths and pedestrian crossings.
Amenities for walking and riding at schools
We're providing funding for more school amenities such as bike and scooter racks, as well as repair stations on school grounds.
Encouraging walking and riding to and from school
We’re funding an in-school walking and riding education program for children, as well as free bike skills courses to support behaviour change.
Connecting with Country
Country encompasses everything – the landscape, skies, waters, plants, animals, and the ancestral people who shaped the land we live on. For Aboriginal Peoples, Country is the source of identity, culture, language, and traditions.
By connecting with Country through the Get Kids Active program, we’re committed to supporting the safety, health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people and communities in and around local schools. If we care for Country – it will care for us.
