Sustrans
Sustrans is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity. Its vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment.
Every day Sustrans works for safer roads, cleaner air and a better quality of life through innovative and practical ways to tackle the transport challenges that affect everyone.
One of the greatest environmental and social challenges of the 21st Century is reversing the trend towards increased car use and tackling its impacts on climate, public health and quality of life.
Sustrans manages the partnership and runs twenty two projects funded through the consortium.
Active Travel
Active Travel works with policy-makers and practitioners to promote walking and cycling as health-enhancing physical activity. 
Sedentary lifestyles are causing an obesity epidemic and increasing the risk of health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancers and osteoporosis. One of the easiest ways to increase physical activity is to include walking and cycling in the daily routine.
Active Travel projects work with local communities to increase their levels of physical activity through walking and cycling.
Bike It
Millions of children want to cycle to school in this country, yet only 2% do. 
Sustrans has stepped in to sort this out with Bike It, a ground-breaking project which has already quadrupled the number of children cycling to its target schools.
Bike It aims to do just that by working directly with pupils, parents and staff to help them overcome whatever it is that is preventing them from cycling to school – by organising cycle training, helping to install new bike sheds, contributing to classroom work and providing information about safe routes to schools.
Ten of Sustrans’ 54 Bike It officers are funded through Travel Actively. The nine projects will work with at least 360 schools over the four years of the programme, aiming to reach 104,380 parents and school staff.
External link: Sustrans website
External link: Sustrans projects pages
