Recent News

Hospital Shuttle Bus (pilot scheme) – ENDED –

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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, door to…

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Annual Passenger Survey Results

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We are delighted to share with you our 2025 survey results. Passengers complete our survey anonymously and it has been a pleasure collating the results. It presents perfectly why Community Transport is so important to so many people and what an essential service it is. The biggest thank you goes to our wonderful passengers, volunteers…

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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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July Trips 2026

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Friends of GCT Day Trips: July 2026Mon 6th July – Lunch, The Lamb Inn Iron Acton £9.00 Mon 13th July – Shopping, The Mall Cribbs Causeway £12.00 Fri 17th July – Dyrham Park (National Trust), Non-Members entry fee £25.30  – Fare £10.00 Tues 21st July – Lunch, The Royal Oak Gloucester £14.00 Fri 31st July – Whitehall Garden Centre, Lacock £15.00 *Please note:  Due to a high…

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June Trips 2026

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Friends of GCT Day Trips: June 2026Tues 2nd June – Lunch The Rose and Crown Pucklechurch – £11.00Mon 8th June – Highfield Garden World  – £14.00 Tues 23rd June – Lunch Cupcake Fashion tea rooms Yate – £9.00 Mon 29th June – Lunch, The White Horse Buckover – £10.00*Please note:  Due to a high number of cancellations on the day of…

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2026 Further Afield Trips

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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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