Travel Actively is Active Cumbria’s new programme aimed to provide a wide range of cycling and walking interventions to help attract people into new ways of travelling actively in Barrow and Carlisle.

The three-year programme aims to support, encourage and enable people to be more active by cycling, walking and wheeling for everyday journeys.  ‘Travel Actively’ has received £1.5million from the Department for Transport (DfT) Active Travel Social Prescribing Pilot Delivery fund. Cumbria is just one of eleven local authorities in England to have been awarded a share of £13.9million.

The programme, delivered by a team of four, in the localities of Barrow-In-Furness and Carlisle, will focus on the following groups:

• Older adults (60 years old and older)
• People with a disability or with a long-term health condition(s)
• People from poorest communities
• People from ethnically diverse backgrounds
• Children and young people
• People socially prescribed or signposted

Through a range of initiatives, Travel Actively will support people to overcome barriers, develop relevant skills and increase confidence. This will result in a positive behaviour change towards travelling actively and people adopting a more active lifestyle.

The programme is supported by the Travel Actively Fund - a funding source for organisations working with, or planning to work with the targeted audiences in Barrow and Carlisle.  Find out more here