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News Archive
October 2010
Teddington car share network officially launched during Liftshare Week!
During the first national Liftshare Week at the beginning of October, the Teddington Network Car Share Scheme was officially launched, with 7 on-site promotional events, covering staff from 9 organisations. Events were held at NMO, St Mary's University College, NPL, NHS Richmond's Thames House, Tearfund, LGC and Haymarket. Staff from Amey and Pinewood Group were also able to attend the events. The week was a resounding success with 157 people registered on the system and many more receiving registration postcards and information on the scheme.
Online registration at NMO
September 2010
Fresher roadshows @ Richmond
In September when students are back to school and teachers back to work we have been very busy in promoting sustainable forms of travel at many educational establishments. In conjunction with Smarter Travel Richmond upon Thames team we organised education roadshows at four colleges and universities in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. On 10th September new students had their opportunities to find out about Oyster Cards and cycle facilities at Richmond American University. A week after Richmond Adult Community College staff and students as part of their travel plan launch had their bikes checked by Dr Bike and advised about other modes of travel. Further events also took place at Richmond upon Thames College and St. Mary's University College.
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School |
When |
Promoted to |
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Richmond American University |
10th September |
Students |
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Richmond Adult Community College(Clifden Road) |
16th September |
Students and Staff |
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Richmond upon Thames College |
21st September |
Students |
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St. Mary's University College |
24th September |
Students |
If you are interested in running a smiliar on-site event for your workforce or visitors in any borough please contact Jakub who can organise a free event.
August 2010
NHS and Borough Partnership Workshop
On Monday 2nd August NHS and Borough representatives gathered together at City Hall to discuss the engagement and partnership between NHS and local authorities.
In light of upcoming changes to the NHS service such as GP commissioning, various opportunities were highlighted such as a wider community approach in making the residents healthier as well as coordination of some transport services. Examples of best practice of working in partnership were identified such as in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where a very close relationship between the NHS and the local authority has helped tackle both obesity and single occupancy car journeys.
On a sub-regional level we discussed opportunities arising from the well established South West NHS Travel Plan Group. Many suggestions were identified of how this group can help in improving the NHS/Borough partnership to deliver a better service and more travel choices to people who live, work or study in the borough. A summary of this discussion and proposed actions will be presented and discussed at the next network meeting on Thursday 26th August at Wimbledon HQ of NHS Sutton and Merton.
Handouts, with a summary of activities of regional London travel plan groups were distributed on the day. To download the South West summary, please click here.
June 2010
Smarter Travel Awards
The Smarter Travel Awards were held on Thursday 24th June 2010 at the London Transport Museum. The event was attended by over 250 people and was co-hosted by Transport for London's David Brown (Managing Director, Surface Transport) and Ben Plowden (Director, Better Routes and Places). The event was a good opportunity to reward smaller scale initiatives that have stood out because of their originality and effectiveness, and have made a real difference to the community. There were a total of 12 categories with SWELTRAC being short listed for Team of the Year, Tearfund short listed for Workplace of the Year and Lindsay Chapman from NPL short listed for the Champion of the Year award. Both the Team of the Year award and Champion of the Year award were peer voted awards. While we just missed out on the big prize we are extremely proud of our achievements over the past year as well as the hard work and effort put in by Tearfund and Lindsay Chapman to encourage sustainable transport use at their respective organisations
SWELTRAC would like to congratulate all the winners on the night. More information on the ceremony, nominees, application details and eventual winners can be found on awards website.
Bike Week 2010
During June the SWELTRAC team supported a number of cycling events at organisations across South West London. Please click here for details on the events.
May 2010
Staff Travel Event at Design Plan
Designplan, a British lighting manufacturer located in the Kimpton Industrial Estate in Sutton, hosted a staff travel event in May to promote the company's revised travel plan to staff. This was following the second staff travel survey at Design Plan, with the original taking place in 2008.
SWELTRAC's Senior Travel Plan Coordinator Jakub Bojczuk and Assistant Travel Plan Coordinator Kevin de Leeuw along with Hannah Wilson from Smarter Travel Sutton were on hand to provide staff with transport information, cycling maps, cycle computers, puncture repair kits and pedometers. Staff were also able to discuss the results of the staff travel survey with the team. As part of the event a Dr Bike expert was on hand during the day to provide MOT type checks for staff bicycles. Feedback from staff was excellent and a follow up Dr Bike clinic is planned for later in the year.
March 2010
Richmond Expo
SWELTRAC attended the Richmond Expo on Tuesday 2nd March, assisting Smarter Travel Richmond in promoting workplace travel plans in the borough and inviting new clients to join the 'Connecting Businesses' programme. Our stand was very popular with many businesses in the area enquiring about the assistance available through Smarter Travel Richmond. We are expecting more presence at various networking events in the boroughs of our sub-region in the new financial year.
Reduced price travel information leaflets!
We are currently offering our fantastic bespoke mapping leaflets at half price to all of our partner businesses. This offer is available for a limited time only - until March 15th - so please contact us as soon as possible to take advantage. More information is available here.
January 2010
Streetcar special offer for SWELTRAC businesses
If you have developed a workplace travel plan with SWELTRAC then you are eligible for free benefits when signing up for corporate membership with the car club Streetcar during January. Annual corporate membership costs £99 and we are offering £50 free driving credit, as well as free registration and membership cards for 5 drivers. This means that you will save £100!
"Streetcar is the simple, smart solution to business travel"
Streetcar, London's leading car club, offers flexible and instant access to cars when you need them. Once you have signed up, your staff will have access to over 1,500 cars across the UK, which can be booked in 1 hour slots from as little as £4.21. This flexibility could potentially save you thousands of pounds each year on fleet costs, not to mention the potential savings on parking costs, maintenance and insurance. For example:
Two Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion pool cars for 3 years.
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Fuel costs for an annual mileage of 10,000 miles, Congestion Charge estimated at 50 occurrences per car per annum, 10% of internal administrative resource, basic insurance, servicing and cleaning: £64,832
Access to 1,500 Streetcars for 3 years.
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Estimated usage of 6 x 1hour bookings per day for 261 days per year, fuel costs for an annual mileage of 10,000 miles, Congestion Charge incl., 2.5% of internal administrative resource, fully comprehensive insurance, servicing and weekly safety checks and cleaning: £51,318
Most Streetcars are new 5-door Volkswagen Golfs. The fleet also contains a smaller number of VW BlueMotion Polos, Tourans and Transporter vans, as well as BMW 1 and 3 series cars.
More information on Streetcar for your business, including your nearest locations, is available on the website (http://www.streetcarforbusiness.co.uk) or through your SWELTRAC Travel Plan Co-ordinator.
If you would like to take advantage of this fantastic offer, please contact Nick by email nick.bailey@sweltrac.org.uk or phone 020 8487 5364.
News from 2009
Breakfast Networking Event sponsored by Access Self Storage
On 4th November we joined Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce members at a business event at the new Access Self Storage site near Putney. We were promoting Enterprise to around 70 local businesses present on the day.
CompeteFor
Our dear colleagues from Enterprise sponsored a CompeteFor event on 1st December at Merton Civic Centre. The event was a great opportunity for Merton businesses to learn how to compete for contract opportunities linked to the London 2012 Games through a free portal www.competefor.com. SWELTRAC was there to promote Enterprise and show how a workplace travel plan can make your business more attractive – both as a potential supplier to an ever increasing sustainability-conscious market,
Countdown to Copenhagen
SWELTRAC was invited to participate in an excellent forum at the Professional Centre in Tooting, aimed to bring the whole Wandsworth community together to work on climate change in partnership. Travel planning was one of the workshops. It demonstrated that working in groups can be a successful way in changing people's behaviour.
London Wetland Centre has launched their cycle parking
As part of their Enterprise travel plan, London Wetland Centre has now installed cycle stands, provided by the Take a Stand initiative. They also installed a roof over the stands so staff have dry bikes!
Travel plan launch at Royal Star and Garter Home at Richmond Hill
Cycling was the main theme of the launch of the travel plan at Royal Star and Garter Home on November 24th. On the day their staff were presented with the travel survey results, received Enterprise merchandise and were given an opportunity to have their bikes checked by Dr. Bike.
Staff Travel Event at Smith & Byford
Smith & Byford an engineering consultancy hosted a staff travel event in December to promote the company's new travel plan to staff.
SWELTRAC's senior travel plan coordinator Jakub Bojczuk and assistant travel plan coordinator Kevin de Leeuw were on hand to provide staff with transport information, cycling maps, personal alarms as well as to discuss the results of the staff travel survey that was conducted in September. As part of the event a Ridgeback folding was offered as a prize – which was won by a lucky staff member!
SWELTRAC provided Smith & Byford with free cycle racks, local cycle maps, cycling merchandise including rucksacks, drink bottles and cycle repair tool kits. SWELTRAC will also be organising a Dr Bike session and cycle confidence training in the New Year. Smith & Byford are also considering using some of the challenge funds which is available through SWELTRAC to install showers.
Enterprise update from South and West London
SWELTRAC Travel Plan Coordinators are currently (October 2010) actively engaged with 21 organisations, which are developing their first travel plan as part of Enterprise.
If you would like to find out more about the scheme please read about A New Way to Work programme created by Transport for London and delivered by SWELTRAC in the South West London.
In order to explain benefits and promote funding available to Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) our Travel plan Coordinators are regularly attend business networking meetings.
Late Summer Networking at the Queen Adelaide
SWELTRAC joined together with our colleagues from Enterprise team to sponsor a recent Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce event on September 24th.
Breakfast Networking Event sponsored by Access Self Storage
You can meet one of our Travel Plan Coordinators at the next Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce event at Access Storage where we will have information display and can provide you with bespoke advice on travel and transport issues at your workplace that you might have.
http://www.wandsworthchamber.org/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=37