Travel Actively is Active Cumbria’s  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.

Active Travel is choosing to walk, cycle, or wheel for everyday journeys like going to the shops, to work, to school or to an appointment.

Choosing to travel actively can improve your health and wellbeing and increase your physical activity levels.  There are other benefits too such as:

• Reduced carbon footprint 
• Better air quality  
• Economic benefits from reduced congestion and improved public health   

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

*Social prescribing is an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing. Find out more here