ORGANISATIONS CAN REAP THE BENEFITS WITH CYCLING SCOTLAND’S CYCLE FRIENDLY EMPLOYER AWARD Cycling Scotland’s Cycle Friendly Employer Award has never been easier and by signing up your organisation will receive one-to-one support to increase workplace cycling. There are so many benefits, from saving money to encouraging a healthy, productive workforce to cutting congestion and reducing your carbon footprint. Working alongside regional service centres, those registered for the Cycle Friendly Employer Award, will benefit from a range of useful services designed to ensure their efforts make a difference. The Cycle Friendly Employer Award will: • Provide tools and incentives to promote cycling in the workplace • Reward those organisations already working hard to increase workplace cycling • Provide ‘best practice’ guidance on commuting • Provide a toll tool to help improve a sustainable travel plan
GET READY FOR RIDE TO WORK WEEK! Riding to work is good for you, your wallet and the environment - plus you could win great prizes by taking part in March! Ride to Work Week is 23 to 29 March 2020. Register and set a goal for how much you plan to ride over the next few weeks and read these tips to help you get started.
The bicycle offers us so much. With rising congestion in our cities and towns and the increasing cost of car ownership, the bicycle can offer a simple solution to many of the modern day challenges. Cycling is truly a healthier and more sustainable travel option for our generation and the next. Once you have registered your organisation here at cycling.scot you will be contacted by your local service centre who will provide the support you need to achieve the award.
FOR A CHANCE TO WIN £5000 IN PRIZES TRY THE SCOTTISH WORKPLACE JOURNEY CHALLENGE! If you’re looking to make some changes on how to get to work then look no further than the, Scottish Workplace Journey Challenge from 1st to 31st March. Compete as an individual, a team or as part of your workplace by logging the active or sustainable journeys you make to, from and for work. Simply register online to log the journeys you make by foot, bike, public transport and car-share. Over £5000 worth of prizes are up for grabs, including cinema tickets, travelcards and high street vouchers. Register before 1st March to enter the Early Bird prize draw where you can win one of ten £30 Tiso vouchers. #JourneyChallenge Cost: FREE!
To take part and for a chance to win prizes sign up here: scotland.getmeactive.org.uk
LOG YOUR RIDES ON THE GO Download the Love to Ride app to quickly & easily log rides wherever you are. You can even track your rides using GPS, making taking part even easier! Download the app here: lovetoride.net/cyclingscore/groups/733
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