Recent News

Hospital Shuttle Bus (pilot scheme)

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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.You can either…

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Weekend Transport Survey

Would you be interested in a weekend Ring & Ride service? We’re asking passengers to complete a survey about weekend transport. Please click the button below and complete our short survey to let us know your views. Thank you so much! Take The Survey

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Our New Website is LIVE!

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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 long serving but aging original site. We were thrilled that our project was selected by a team of wonderful students that are in their final year.…

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Sensing Nature Walks at Westonbirt National Arboretum

a guide giving a talk next to a large tree log.

Our friend Mark Austen along with two other blind guides are hosting immersive and interactive guided nature walks of Westonbirt that offer people, particularly those with sight difficulties, a different way of experiencing the arboretum. Checkout this news story about the walks from BBC News Gloucestershire: If you are interested in these guided Sensing Nature Walks Mark…

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Changes to our fares…

a green community travel minivan driving around a corner

At our most recent Management Committee meeting we have taken the difficult decision to increase our fares. They last increased in 2023 and we need to take this step to mitigate our increasing costs as much as we can, we need to ensure that we are viable. We’d like to remind passengers that anyone in…

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2026 Further Afield Trips

a green bus dropping off passengers at the seaside

We are pleased to share this year’s programme of our further afield trips! We now fund these ourselves, so the fares are set at £14 with a bus pass (£16 for non-bus pass holders). We will endeavour to get every passenger onto at least one trip, we want to make it as fair as possible.…

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January Trips 2026

a green community travel minivan with a church in the background

Friends of GCT Day Trips: January 2026Thurs 8th Jan- Lunch, The Masons Arms Rudgeway £11.00 Mon 12th Jan – Shopping The Mall Cribbs Causeway £12.00 Mon 19th Jan- Lunch The Lamb Iron Acton £9.00 Tues 27th Jan -Highfield Garden World £14.00*Please note:  Due to a high number of cancellations on the day of our outings, we are now taking payment for the…

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