GCT Hospital Shuttle Bus 2026:
We are very pleased to announce we have been successful in our grant application for a pilot of a Hospital Shuttle Bus!
Our hospital bus will be running 1 day a week thanks to a grant from The National Lottery.
This will go to and from Southmead Hospital, door to door, to help our members get to their crucial hospital appointments.
You can either give us a call or email us to find out the dates.
You can also head over to our facebook page for updates.
A guideline for timings are:
- Arrive 9am – Depart 9:15am
- Arrive 11am – Depart 11:15am
- Arrive 1:30pm – Depart 1:45pm
- Arrive 3pm – Depart 4pm
If we have a second driver :
Timings will increase to:
- Arrive 9am – Depart 09:15am
- Arrive 10am – Depart 10:15am
- Arrive 11am – Depart 11:15am
- Arrive 12noon – Depart 12:15pm
- Arrive 1:30pm – Depart 01:45pm
- Arrive 2:30pm – Depart 02:45pm
- Arrive 3pm – Depart 4pm
- Arrive 4pm – Depart 5pm
If you wish to join us to only use this service exclusively, the cost of membership is only £5.
The fare for the journey will be £15, this is for a door to door return
journey with our fully accessible minibus’.
We are here for anyone that cannot access public transport, this could be due to mobility, age, location, availability of services. If you’re not sure if you can qualify to use us please give us a call we are always happy to discuss with you and answer any questions.
The schedules will be posted on this website and Our Facebook page will remain the best place to keep up to date with this pilot scheme and we hope to speak to you soon:
www.facebook.com/Greencommunitytravel/
June was the last month for our hospital shuttle bus.
Sadly, it wasn’t well used enough for us to apply for further funding. It was really helpful for us whilst it did run & we have learnt a lot from this trial. We have gained a super driver who is happy to group passengers together for a bus when we have those very busy days.
We are really grateful for your support with the pilot and we still think it was a valuable thing to do. We wanted to conduct this exercise to see if it could work and sometimes things do, sometimes they don’t! but we are always learning.
Last year we applied to the UWE CAKE (Community Action and Knowledge Exchange) project to have some free consultancy work, our project was a new website to supersede our 
We were thrilled that our project was selected by a team of wonderful students that are in their final year.
Working with this group of fantastic students has been absolutely brilliant, not only is our new website beautiful, but they have taken the time to gain a perfect understanding of Community Transport and why it is important, we feel they have really captured the essence of Community Transport and that our new website really showcases GCT and the wider sector. 
You can also now complete a 
