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  • Its Quiz Time

    Its Quiz Time

    Get you thinking caps on!

    We are holding a quiz night to help raise funds for a new minibus. All are welcome, in teams of 6, £2 per person on the night.

    Please register your interest by emailing Michaela: Admin@GreenCommunityTravel.co.uk or calling our office on 01454228706

    Our wonderful quizmaster Mark will be giving our brains a workout on the 10th of October at the fabulous Old Sodbury Village Hall, the doors will open at 7pm and the quiz is due to start at 7:30pm. There is even a raffle too.

    don’t miss out, book your teams spot today.

  • Help Tell The Story of Community Transport

    Help Tell The Story of Community Transport

    We are currently applying for funding to help keep our Community Transport service running and growing. One of the most powerful ways we can show how important the service is by sharing the experiences of the people who use it.

    We can explain what Community Transport does, but your stories show the real difference it makes. By telling us why your journeys matter, what would happen if you couldn’t make them, and why other forms of transport aren’t suitable, you’ll help funders understand the impact this service has on people’s lives.

    If you could spare just five minutes to answer the questions, we’d be incredibly grateful. Please click the link below to fill out our questionnaire online.

    If you’d prefer a written option, printed copies are available on our buses; you can return your completed questionnaire to one of our drivers, email your answers to us, or simply give us a call.

    With your permission, we may use your comments in funding applications, reports and promotional materials to help tell the story of Community Transport.

    Your responses can be completely anonymous, or if you’re happy for us to use your first name, please let us know on the questionnaire.

    Thank you so much for your support. We truly appreciate every one of you, and thank you for helping us secure the future of Community Transport for our community.

    Tell Us Your Community Transport Story
  • Hospital Shuttle Bus (pilot scheme) – ENDED –

    Hospital Shuttle Bus (pilot scheme) – ENDED –

    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.

  • Annual Passenger Survey Results

    Annual Passenger Survey Results

    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 and staff who keep our wheels turning.

    For a PDF of this presentation more accessible for screen readers please clickDownload
  • Winter News (*update)

    Winter News (*update)

  • Autum News

    Autum News

  • Weekend Transport Survey

    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
  • GCT is now a Community Benefit Society

    GCT is now a Community Benefit Society

  • We Are Holding a Poll to Decide The Name of our New Bus: – COMPLEATED –

    We Are Holding a Poll to Decide The Name of our New Bus: – COMPLEATED –

    We have some sad news and some exciting news…our bus Dobby is very poorly and he was poorly at the end of last year as well so he is coming off the road.

    We’ve been working really hard to reduce our expenditure and improve costs over the past few years so we are (luckily) in a position that we can just about replace him.

    For names we’ve decided we’re taking inspiration from the Bard so any new buses will be Shakespearean themed!

    Help us choose what our new bus should be called by completing our poll

    📊 What do you think the new bus should be called?

    A: Hamlet

    B: Othello

    C: Mercutio

    D: Beatrice

    UPDATE:

    We’re pleased to announce the results of our name the bus poll!

    The new bus will be called……


    Beatrice!



    Thanks to everyone who took part and we’ll let you know when Beatrice is on the road!

    UPDATE 2:

    Beatrice is here and she is ready to get on the road, Click This Link to take a peek!


  • Our New Website is LIVE!

    Our New Website is LIVE!

    ⭐️ 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.

    ⭐️ We met with Tom, Serena, Seb, Veena, and Elliot and discussed what we would like on our new website, and what Community Transport does.

    They have done an absolutely incredible job and we are pleased to announce:

     

    📣 our new website is now live! 📣


    💚 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 registration form online AND submit booking requests! ‼️


    💚 We will be forever grateful to the team for choosing our project, completing the project to such a high standard but also really taking the time to learn about GCT. They are an incredible bunch of people and we know that they will go far in their futures.


    Thank you, thank you, thank you Tom, Serena, Seb, Veena, and Elliot and we wish you all the very best for your final year and assessments, we think you will smash it  🌟


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