Meet our NQE Business Awards Finalists
This year the Travel Plan Club, along with ECC and Inntel, have sponsored the Active and Sustainable Travel category in the prestigious NQE business awards
Having choosen nine finalists we followed this up with a visit to each. It’s been great finding out all the different things they are doing to promote sustainable and active travel. Here is a snippet of some of the best bits!
Open Road a charity providing drug and alcohol treatment makes great use of Skype to deliver training between its centres and to hold meetings. This has greatly reduced its business travel costs and overtime payments.
The whole ethos of Green Path Ventures is to give new experiences to, and build confidence of, people with mental health problems, through being outside, physical activity, social interaction and teaching bush craft skills.
To complement what they already do to encourage their staff to be more active Click4Quote are considering installing a Wii in their staff kitchen to promote lunchtime activity over the winter months!
DSG have been monitoring their business travel related CO2 emissions and can show a big drop since they introduced video conferencing and other new working practices across all their sites.
An innovative bike maintenance workshop and mobile maintenance trailer which is going to offer bike repairs to local schools, attracted a recent ministerial visit at The Gilberd School
Discounted D locks, pumps, cycle maintenance equipment, disounts in local bike schops and the Cycle to Work scheme are offered at Colchester VI Form College to help encourage cycling.
The University of Essex has doubled the number of students cycling to campus over the past couple of years through their termly cycle promotions including cycle training, Dr Bike, cycle watch scheme and the sale of second hand bikes.
Income from charging staff to park at Colchester Borough Council is used to offer staff choosing to regularly travel to work sustainably, 50% off bus season/carnet tickets and 35% off train travel.
Colchester United Football Club are really listening to their fans and tailoring services to suit, there are now shuttle buses from Greenstead, St Johns, Highwoods and Butt Road plus a coach coming from Braintree. As many as 24% of fans now travel to a game by bus
So that’s it, our finalists in a nutshell. It has been incredibly difficult to decide three winners as everyone is doing such good work. All will be revealed at the awards ceremony on Friday 25th November. So good luck to you all and have a great evening!