Active Travel Consortium + Travel Actively (UK)
The Active Travel Consortium is a partnership of walking, cycling and health organisations committed to providing opportunities for 1.8 million people to become more active. Branded as Travel Actively, the consortium delivers a £30 million portfolio of 50 projects, helping people in England to change their travel habits and improve their health by giving them the practical support they need to walk and cycle as part of their everyday lives.
The Active Travel Consortium's lead partner is Sustrans and its members are British Cycling, Campaign for Better Transport, CTC, Living Streets, London Cycling Campaign, National Heart Forum, National Obesity Forum, The Ramblers and Walk England.
Travel Actively projects include:
- Community Cycling Champions helping people to start cycling (CTC and LCC)
- Bike It officers working with schools, providing people with information about their travel choices through TravelSmart and promoting walking and cycling in communities with Active Travel (Sustrans)
- promoting walking to school and work and engaging with communities through Fitter for Walking (Living Streets)
- encouraging hard to reach groups to 'Get Walking Keep Walking' (The Ramblers)
- the Walk4life website (Walk England).
The portfolio of projects began in January 2008 and will run until the end of 2012.
The project's final report finds the project:
- provided two million people with the opportunity to become more physically active
- established 50 projects, many of which will bring lasting change to the communities they serve England-wide
- engaged 4,000 volunteers who helped deliver the projects.
Travel Actively Review 2012 | 5.46MB PDF
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