Sustrans - Join the movement

Active Travel Workplace Toolkit

The Active Travel Workplace Toolkit is a UK-wide resource designed to help organisations encourage their employees to walk and cycle to work, thus helping improve health, reduce absenteeism and increase productivity.

Download the Active Travel Workplace Toolkit (pdf)

Why play?

Why play? is the latest in the series of information leaflets including Why Walk?, Why Cycle?, Get Cycling and Cycling with Children, and explains why active outdoor play is essential for children, including facts and suggestions.

Download Why play? (pdf)

Download Why walk? (pdf)

Get active, getting there!

This public information leaflet introduces the benefits of walking and cycling for health, transport and pleasure.

Download Get active, getting there! (pdf)

Take action on active travel

Take action on active travel - the leading public health, transport and planning bodies are calling on government at all levels to invest 10% of transport budgets in cycling and walking initiatives, now, to help fight the UK's obesity crisis.

January 2010 - an amended version of the policy call is now available with an updated list of over 100 signatories.

Download the updated Take action on active travel (pdf)

Latest information sheet

Sustrans' Active travel and men's health (pdf) information sheet looks at the evidence why physical activity, specificially walking and cycling, is beneficial for men. It concludes that physical activity is vital to improve quality of life and reduce the risk to health from many non-communicable diseases.