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Author: Michael Grimes

Car commuter Katie is now bats about active travel

Katie is studying the movement ecology of the horseshoe bat for her PhD at the University of Sussex. But it’s not just the movement of bats that Katie is scrutinising: she has also started paying closer attention to how she moves herself. Katie signed up to the university’s EcoGo programme that rewards staff and students…
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Ditching the car was ‘a huge change’ for Jacqueline: ‘I walk more and feel a lot better’

BetterPoints user Jacqueline made a big change when she got rid of her car. She now walks and takes public transport instead of driving every day.

Leicestershire’s successful transport behaviour change programme returns for its sixth year

As year five of Leicestershire’s Choose How You Move Rewards programme draws to a close, we are delighted to announce it will run again for a sixth consecutive year. Choose How You Move Rewards is provided jointly by Leicester City and Leicestershire County Councils to encourage sustainable modal shift away from reliance on single-occupancy car…
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Sustainable travel behaviour change programme accelerates in Brighton & Hove

BetterPoints is delighted to be ramping up its Move for Change programme for Brighton & Hove City Council over a further two years, with a greater focus on engaging under-represented groups and expanding the programme through local businesses. The programme will also harness funds for Bus Service Improvement Plans to work more closely with local…
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BetterPoints is back in Milton Keynes for a second year running

Following a successful eight-month programme in 2022 that attracted high levels of engagement and achieved measurable modal shift, Milton Keynes City Council has commissioned a new seven-month Get Around Rewards programme which launches on 1 April. Once again, residents and workers in Milton Keynes will able to receive incentives and rewards for travelling actively and…
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Active travel cuts are deeply concerning – but we can still make the most of what we have

We were alarmed to hear of UK Government’s intention to cut spending on active travel, including a two-thirds cut to promised capital investment in infrastructure from £308 million to just £100 million for the next two years. At the same time, the government reiterated ambitious targets for active travel in guidance published last week. These…
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BetterPoints app now supports Welsh

Following a successful pilot at Cardiff University, we have translated the BetterPoints app into Welsh to enable us to deliver a fully bilingual programme in 2023. The app will now automatically display in Welsh to anyone who has their device set to that language. We’re really excited to make our app available for Welsh speakers…
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Use the Capability Fund to help make active travel ‘unignorable’

Many local authorities in England are receiving Capability Fund allocations from Active Travel England. The aim is to build a national network of experts that work with communities to co-design places that ‘are truly walkable and cyclable for everyone’. Active Travel England wants to ‘create examples at such a scale that they become unignorable’, says…
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Chris Boardman pledges to make active travel ‘unignorable’

On Monday, Active Travel England announced it is investing £32.9 million in a national network of experts to ‘work with communities, enhance high streets and make places truly walkable and cyclable for everyone’. This is like manna from heaven for BetterPoints: it’s where infrastructure meets behaviour change. One can’t work without the other. The Capability…
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Let’s end the year on a high note!

A look back at 2022 can be demoralising. War brought devastation to Ukraine, floods and fires wrought destruction around the world, energy prices rocketed and climate talks floundered. Here in the UK, the word ‘crisis’ was appended to pretty much everything: cost-of-living, petrol, social care, energy, food supply, homelessness, ambulances – even Christmas pickle. Against…
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How BetterPoints helped Sam give up smoking

Hounslow Council asked BetterPoints for a programme to help people take personal responsibility for their health, particularly among those at risk of developing avoidable long-term conditions. The One You Hounslow programme targets people at risk of developing conditions that arise from factors such as lifestyle and occupation – Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, for example – and…
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BetterPoints is proud to sponsor Modeshift Convention 2022

BetterPoints is delighted to sponsor this year’s Modeshift Convention, which takes place in Leicester next week. To mark the occasion, we are running a special programme in our app, specially for delegates. They simply need to download the BetterPoints app and join the Modeshift 2022 Challenge using a code that will be available at the event.…
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