Alistair Goulding
Job position:
Project Officer, School Travel team
Biog:
Alistair has been with Sustrans' School travel team since 2004, and between emails telling people how to recycle and winning the (coveted) Christmas quiz, has found time to edit websites and newsletters, run events, write articles, and answer thousands of enquiries. In previous lives he masqueraded as a teacher and health advisor before, according to Wiki-leaks, working in a bank.
Latest articles written by this author
- Material girls and boys
What’s the latest UK financial scandal? Cash for questions? MPs expenses?
Not at all, it’s happening near you, in the neighbours’ houses… maybe even your own. The shocking headlines are that British parents are literally buying their children’s goodwill with material goods, so a new UN report tells us.
- Natural born thrillers
Children have seen the area in which they can play in shrink by 90% in a generation, and more children are hospitalised falling out of bed than out of trees.
- We need to get out more
Oh dear. It seems that our little people are barely allowed outside their garden now, when we used to be able to roam 840m on average, several streets, and any number of adventures and scraped knees away from our homes.
- I predict a riot
Sustrans just turned 34. Like all of us at a certain age, we start saying things like “don’t the police look young?”, “why did God create Justin Bieber?”, and “kids watch too much TV, they don’t play outside anymore”. Then we actually checked and it seems kids don’t get outside much anymore, certainly not on their own…
- School run to stand still
No one likes the school run. The school run is rush hour's runt sibling, inseparable, irritating. If there was no school run, rush hour would be celebrated as exactly that, a national good-humoured charge to work..
- Girls just want to have fun
Blogger Al Goulding is amazed that 58% of girls now cycle outside of school time compared to only 17% before.
