At Brake, the road safety charity, we believe everyone has the right to safe and healthy mobility and we’re working to stop road deaths and injuries, make our communities safer and greener, and improve support for people affected by road crashes.
For very young children, knowing the importance of holding a grown up’s hand when walking near roads, or waiting for the green man before crossing the road, can make a huge difference to their safety. That’s why we run Beep Beep! Days with Timmy Time for early years educators, to give them the tools they need to share important messages about road safety with young children aged 2–7.
Beep Beep! Days give schools, nurseries, pre-schools and childminders a great opportunity to make a difference and save little lives. By taking part in a fun, road-safety-themed day, children gain an understanding of the dangers of traffic and ways to stay safer near roads from an early age, with help from Timmy and his friends, and this helps ensure that road safety is well engrained for later years when they start to travel more independently.
Brake has been running Beep Beep! Days since 2004, with the support of Churchill Insurance. Every year, thousands of early years educators sign up to take part, engaging more than 315,000 children (in 2018) in road safety activities.
Everyone who registers for a Beep Beep! Day can access a free online action pack full of ideas and activities to teach children about safe and unsafe behaviours near roads, and what grown-ups can do to help keep them safe. A low-cost bumper pack offers additional printed resources to enable educators to deliver a session with reusable, laminated resources.