Active Travel Consortium
The Active Travel Consortium is a partnership of leading walking, cycling and health organisations committed to providing opportunities for 1.8 million people to become more active through active travel by 2012.
Branded as Travel Actively, the consortium deliver an exciting £30 million portfolio of 50 projects, helping people all over 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 portfolio is supported by £20 million from the Big Lottery Fund's Well-being programme, which provides funding to support the development of healthier lifestyles and to improve well-being.
Project activities are currently being run in communities, schools, business parks and universities. Target groups include Black and Minority Ethnic groups, people with disabilities, people with mental health problems, the elderly and the young. Long-term sustainability and behaviour change are key goals of each project.
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 is now in the fourth and final year.
The Big Lottery Fund has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004. It was formally recognised by Parliament on 1 December 2006.
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