Sheffield City Council offered a free one-day travel pass to people signed up to the BetterPoints Sheffield programme in the run-up to Christmas. The council wanted to encourage more people to try using the buses and trams, and to reduce congestion during the Christmas shopping period. The programme awards points for travelling more actively and…
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We are thrilled to report that BetterPoints programmes observed a 20 per cent reduction in short car journeys across nine research trials – double the early indications of a ten per cent drop! The trials also showed that reductions in short car journeys persisted after the campaigns ended. This is great news for anyone wanting…
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‘I have absolutely changed the way I travel since joining BetterPoints‘, says Lukasz from Brighton & Hove’s Move for Change programme. ‘For my job, I sit at my desk most of my days – but I never really thought about walking there and back. ‘Now I’m regularly walking into town. Leaving the car at home…
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‘I now only use the car if the journey is not viable on foot’, says Nindy, who joined South Lanarkshire Council’s Think, Move, Breathe BetterPoints programme. Nindy had driven everywhere before. ‘I had no hesitation in jumping in the car on a short journey to the shops even when I could walk’, she says. Nindy discovered…
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We get a lot of positive stories from BetterPoints users. Maybe they have lost weight by walking, wheeling or cycling, or discovered local treasures, or saved money that would otherwise have paid for petrol, or even fallen in love with their partner all over again. Almost always, though, they add something along the lines of…
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Chris uses his car so infrequently now that the garage didn’t believe his low mileage was genuine. ‘When I took it for its MOT, I’d only done 2,000 miles in the last year. The mechanic thought I’d clocked it!’ Chris did most of his travelling by car or moped before he discovered Leicestershire’s Choose How…
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BetterPoints is delighted to be working with Sheffield City Council on a new campaign designed to inspire greener and healthier journeys. The council wants to encourage people to try sustainable transport options. BetterPoints Sheffield, which launches this month, will reward everyone who lives, works or studies in the city to earn rewards for getting around…
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Cardiff University’s Changing Steps Cardiff programme encourages staff and students away from a reliance on private cars to more active and sustainable modes of travel. More than 278,000 sustainable journeys were recorded over two nine-month periods in 2021 and 2022. More than half of these were found to have replaced a car journey, relieving some…
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Brighton & Hove City Council’s Move for Change campaign is designed to move local residents and workers away from a reliance on private motor vehicles. In year two (2022), participants recorded over a million sustainable journeys. More than 620,000 of these were found to have replaced a single-occupancy car journey. Those journeys saved approximately 392…
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Jamii-Lee saw Brighton and Hove’s Move for Change programme advertised on a bus stop and decided to give it a go. ‘I’ve lost three stone this year already just by walking around and being mindful about my activity. Mentally, it’s made me so much better too. I’ve just got a new mindset, which regular walking…
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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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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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We have put together two case studies for you that show how BetterPoints behaviour change programmes are more than paying for themselves, delivering high value and real change for local authorities in both public health and active/sustainable travel.
