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Active Travel Consortium

This exciting £30million portfolio of projects will help people all over England 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, and is being delivered by a coalition of health, transport and environmental groups, working together as the Active Travel Consortium, and branded as Travel Actively. Leading an active lifestyle, by including walking and cycling as part of our daily routine, has a huge part to play in tackling the worrying rise in obesity. The Consortium's wide-ranging portfolio of projects will help people who would not usually walk or cycle to make their journeys to school, work and in their local areas by foot or bike.

The Consortium's lead partner is Sustrans and its members are British Cycling, Campaign for Better Transport, Cycling England, CTC, Living Streets, London Cycling Campaign, National Heart Forum, National Obesity Forum, The Ramblers and Walk21.

Examples of the Consortium's 50 projects

• creating Community Cycling Champions to start people cycling (CTC and LCC)
• new Bike It officers to work with schools, providing people with information about their travel choices with TravelSmart and working in communities to promote Active Travel (Sustrans)
• extending the campaign to promote walking to school and work and making communities via Fitter for Walking (Living Streets)
• encouraging hard to reach groups to ‘Get Walking Keep Walking' (The Ramblers)
• the Walk England website www.walkengland.org.uk (Walk21)

The portfolio of projects will run for four years and began in January 2008.

The Big Lottery Fund's Well-being programme provides funding to support the development of healthier lifestyles and to improve well-being. The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004.

 

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