Modeshift Active Travel Ambassadors
Modeshift’s Active Travel Ambassadors programme empowers students to lead the way in promoting walking, cycling, scooting, and public transport at their school. Ambassadors raise awareness, inspire their peers, and help make journeys to school safer, healthier, and more sustainable.
Through fun campaigns, events, and peer-led initiatives, students develop leadership skills while supporting their school community’s move towards active travel.
Contact: Elfine Cooper
Active Travel Ambassadors Coordinator
Phone: 07856 282702
Email: Elf@modeshift.org.uk
The North Yorkshire Council Sustainable Travel Team
The Sustainable Travel Team works with schools to promote safer, healthier and more sustainable travel for pupils and families and have a host of fully funded initiatives including:
- Travel Plan support – we’ll help you develop and deliver a travel plan and gain national accreditation through Modeshift STARS.
- Active Travel Ambassadors – peer led behaviour change campaign
- Walk to School Day mascot – have Spike the Hedgehog do playground meet and greets.
- Road Safety Assemblies
- Parking Buddies – loan one of our buddies to deter cars parking on yellow zig-zags.
- Year 6 transition workshop – prepare Year 6 for their new journey to secondary school with journey planning and road safety.
- Active Travel posters – promote the benefits of walking and wheeling.
- Walking Bus guide – your own how-to guide to setting up a Walking Bus.
- Park and Stride guide – you own how-to guide to setting up a Park and Stride scheme.
- Balance Bike taster sessions – for EYFS/KS1 to increase their confidence on two wheels.
Contact us: opennorthyorkshire@northyorks.gov.uk
WOW Living Streets
WOW, created by Living Streets, is a year-round walk to school challenge that encourages children and families to travel actively every day. Pupils record how they travel to school, and those who walk, wheel, scoot or cycle at least once a week earn a fun, collectable badge each month.
WOW has been fully funded for North Yorkshire and York schools to take part for free by Active Travel England.
Contact Abigail Gibbons, Project Co-ordinator for more information or to get involved: