Services offered to members
The founding members of the Club consist of six of the largest organisations in Colchester collectively employing over 10,000 staff. Every member pays an annual subscription fee which contributes towards funding a central Travel Plan Coordinator to support and direct the Club.
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The Travel Plan Coordinator’s role is to:
- Share best practice examples of Travel Plans from a range of different local, national, large and small businesses and organisations to help assist each member in getting critical buy-in from relevant departments and ideas for tailoring individual Travel Plans to suit specific requirements.
- Establish surveying tools and trend analysis to help set objectives and assist in the subsequent monitoring of agreed targets/objectives
- Monitor the progress of individual member organisations and the Club overall against agreed targets/objectives
- Research and negotiate discounts, deals and generic documentation for promotion of more travel choices for Club members
- Develop an annual marketing programme for members to promote travel choices within their organisations and to the wider community where appropriate
- Provide support, advice and mentoring where required
- Coordinate regular Travel Plan Club meetings
- Communicate information, including reporting activities, progress and concerns, between the Colchester2020 Transport Sub Group and the Travel Plan Club including inputting the Club’s lobbying priorities in to the Transport Sub Group.
Members are also entitled to:
- Their initial set up as a ‘private group’ on the Colchester2020traveltogether (car sharing and walking, taxi, cycling buddy matching scheme) website, providing the associated administration rights to monitor the scheme and funding the subsequent annual licence fee
- Membership of the Association for Commuter Transport – the leading association for travel planning expertise in the UK.
- Access to Travel Plan Club materials that can be used to promote sustainable transport such as posters, bus maps, Dr Bike banner, fun bikes etc
- Post code mapping service (CM and CO postcodes only available at present) – useful e.g. when plotting staff home locations and therefore potential travel alternatives available
In addition the Travel Plan Club offers new members:
- A Travel Plan starter pack for implementing the different components of a Travel Plan and advice and support through the process of developing the Plan.
