£53,000 for School Travel Plans

The Department for Children, Schools and Families has just confirmed that a total of £53,796 is paid to the ten schools who developed Travel Plans this year.

The money will be shared between the schools, who will receive between £4,000 and £10,000 each depending on type and size, and will be used for capital schemes to encourage more sustainable ways of travelling to school – walking, cycling, using the bus or car sharing.
 
For example, some schools are planning to spend the grant on improved cycle parking and lockers for helmet and equipment storage. 

The schools who developed Travel Plans this year are:

Brampton Abbotts Primary             
Broadlands Primary              
Ewyas Harold Primary   
St James, Kimbolton, Primary 
Longtown Primary    
Marlbrook Primary
Whitbourne Primary
The Priory Centre, Leominster 
Blackmarston Special School
John Kyrle High School

So far, 86 per cent of Herefordshire schools, including independents, have developed Travel Plans with strategies for cutting car use on the school run.  Many of these schools are having great success in increasing the number of pupils who walk and cycle, or park and walk to school.

Herefordshire Council School Travel Advisers are working towards the target of 100 per cent of schools with a Travel Plan in place by 2010.