We have won a £1.1 million government grant to help more residents and organisations who want to change the way they travel. Following an announcement made on Friday 7 February by Chris Heaton-Harris, cycling and walking Minister, the funding for 2020/21 under the Department for Transport’s Access Fund will support a range of different initiatives […]

By Paul Coulson, Cycle Hub Manager, ForwardMotion Three of the most common questions I am asked as manager of ForwardMotion’s Mobile Cycle Hub are: what is it, what do you do and can I have two teas, please? I will quickly make it quite clear we’re not a refreshments van (we would probably do a […]

More exercise tops list of 2020 New Year resolutions, as eco-friendly goals fall by the wayside. Research by ForwardMotion reveals that the most popular New Year’s resolutions for 2020 are to exercise more and eat more healthily, selected by 57% and 54% of people planning to make New Year resolutions. The survey, conducted by YouGov, […]

A huge thank you to everyone who has either taken part in or helped to promote our Festive Travel challenge this month. It has been a hugely successful challenge. Over 50 organisations have encouraged their employees, trainees or students to sign up to the challenge, and more than 40 people have swapped a car journey […]

The ForwardMotion team has been busy reaching out to students across south Essex this month, speaking at a number of Year 11 school assemblies. Recently, the team spoke to over 100 pupils at The Billericay School in Billericay, which is one of the biggest schools in Essex. Our travel engagement officers used an interactive presentation […]

A special liveried bus is hitting the roads of south Essex to promote Southend as a visitor destination and encourage people to use public transport. The new Arriva bus– which bears the old Southend Transport livery –promotes the Visit Southend website on its sides and ForwardMotion on the back. Unveiled at the Southend Christmas lights […]

On Monday, 2 December, we are launching a festive travel challenge to encourage people to try travelling by public transport throughout December. Residents from South Essex could win a £250 prize for completing just one journey on a bus or train which they would have normally travelled by car. To take part, swap one journey […]

ForwardMotion has partnered with online bicycle identification and registration initiative BikeRegister to help protect people’s bikes in south Essex. Staff at our Cycle Hub Thurrock and Cycle Hub Mobile will now be able to register bikes on BikeRegister’s database and mark and protect them using BikeRegsiter’s security kits, giving customers the peace of mind that […]

On Wednesday, 20 November, the ForwardMotion team were at Opportunity Thurrock, a careers and education event attended by over 2,500 students from schools and colleges across Thurrock. Students from Years 8 to 13, who were at the event at the London Cruise Terminal, Tilbury, had the opportunity to speak to our expert travel advisors and […]

After officially launching our ‘This Is What A Cyclist Looks Like’ campaign at Landor Links’ Cycle County Active County conference in September, we have continued to roll out our campaign at various outreach events across south Essex. The campaign aims to challenge people’s perceptions of what a ‘real’ cyclist looks like. We created the campaign […]