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Schools climate action guide and template

Active and sustainable travel

Active and sustainable travel is about making journeys in ways that are sustainable and healthier. The aim is to shift away from unnecessary car journeys and towards more active and environmentally friendly travel. This could be through cycling, walking or by taking public transport.

Active and sustainable travel can have lots of benefits. Such as reducing travel costs, improving health and wellbeing, improving air quality and improving safety outside schools.

Schools have an important role to play in active and sustainable travel. By helping to provide the skills and improving the confidence of students and their care-givers. This could be through things such as cycle skills training and safer active travel environments like school streets. With these actions schools can help to change behaviour and reduce car use.

Southwark council recommends all schools within the borough sign up to Transport for London's (TfL) Travel for Life Programme. It provides:

  • easy steps for reducing carbon emissions through travel
  • information on how to get involved
  • awards to recognise success

Primary schools can sign up to TfL Explorers and secondary schools can sign up to TfL Pioneers.