Recent News

Our 2025 A.G.M is coming soon…

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SAVE THE DATE: Friday 25th July 2025 11:00-12:30 Our 2025 Annual General Meeting is coming up & will take place on Friday the 25th of July between 11:00 and 12:30, in the Heron 1 room at Poole Court in Yate. Please contact the office for information or to book transport…. More details: Agenda for 2025…

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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

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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…

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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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Hospital Shuttle Bus Survey

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As many of you will know, the requests for hospital transport are increasing each month…. We are so grateful to our volunteers but there are some journeys we cannot cover, we are wondering if a hospital shuttle bus would mean we could help more passengers. Volunteers would still undertake other journeys, so it may be…

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July Trips 2025

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Friends of GCT July 2025 Day TripsThurs 3rd July  – Shopping The Mall Cribbs Causeway £12.00  Tues 8th July – Lunch, The Folly Emersons Green £10.00 Fri 18th July – Chepstow Garden Centre £14.00   Tues 22nd July- Lunch, The Redwood Farm Cribbs Causeway £12.00  Fri 25th July- Green Community Travel Annual General Meeting Poole Court Yate 11:00-12:30 *Please note:  Due to…

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2025 Further Afield Trips

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We are pleased to announce the continuation of our further afield trips for 2025. We do not have funding for this programme so the fares will be slightly higher, £13 (with a bus pass) £15 for non-bus pass holders. We will endeavour to get every passenger onto at least one trip, we want to make…

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