Some great news from Leicester City Council for City-based businesses.
The City Council’s Active Travel Team supports city businesses to make commuting and any work-related journeys more sustainable and healthier for staff. The other benefits of switching from your car to walking or biking include saving money, losing weight and getting fitter and, of course, you don’t generate any CO2 emissions.
The Active Travel Team have a number of free initiatives to benefit your business.
As well as advising, delivering and assisting in staff communications, and working strategically with you to enable staff travel, they also offer a match funded “Sustainable Travel Grant” of up to £5000 per year. This is to encourage your staff to travel actively to work by walking and cycling, or to make your business travel more sustainable, for example by building a fleet of pool bikes for staff to use.
The grant is match funded and designed to help your business overcome barriers to active travel, for instance by funding cycle parking, lockers or showers. They will match fund from the smallest amount so that gives you half the costs of any spend you might be considering.
You can find out more on their website here.
