Need to make a referral? Want to refer yourself?
Travel Well Calendar – activities and booking links
Travel Well Activity Providers
The Travel Well Big Green Books
Meet the Travel Well team events
News and information
Monitoring
About
With an active lifestyle having a massive impact on both mental and physical wellbeing, Nottingham City Council’s Travel Well project aims to help support people to build activity into their daily lives for lasting healthy changes.
Nottingham City Council expressed interest to become part of a national trial. It was selected and became one of 11 areas where it has been identified that people switching to more active lifestyles can make a real difference. The trial will give healthcare professionals and social prescribers the ability to refer patients to services that promote walking, cycling and wheeling delivered within the community.
The aim is to support people to become more active, manage mental and physical wellbeing, manage long-term health conditions or address social isolation.
The project will take place around Aspley, Beechdale, Bilborough, Bulwell, Sneinton, St Ann’s and Strelley. Here is a useful map showing the Travel Well focus areas.
How do referrals work?
Referrals can be made in two ways:
You can be referred to Travel Well activities or find out about many of them yourself. Check out the calendar below to find out when and where they are taking place.
If you are registered at the following GP Practices in the Aspire PCN you can email the NHS for a further personalised support package including the options of walking and / or cycling activities:
Aspley Medical Centre
Assarts Farm Medical Centre
Bilbrough Medical Centre
Broad Oak Medical Practice
Grange Farm Medical Centre
Melbourne Park Medical Centre
St Luke’s Surgery
Travel Well Activities by provider
Check out the calendar below where we have signposted a range of walking and cycling activities taking place across Nottingham.
Visit our suppliers’ websites or event pages to find their upcoming Travel Well activities and how to sign up. We have partnered with some community organisations who have organised walking and cycling activities. Most are posted on the calendar, some can be found out about by popping in and others have dedicated booking pages. See below.
| Supplier | How to find out? |
|---|---|
| Bikeworks | Calendar or on Eventbrite |
| Ridewise | Calendar or on Bookwhen |
| Walk Wheel Cycle Trust | On referral only |
| Runspire | Calendar or on Runspire Travel Well page |
| The Renewal Trust | Calendar or on Bookwhen |
| Evolve | By popping in |
| Diversify | By popping in or on their Facebook page |
| The Toy Library | By popping in or on their Facebook page |
| Nottingham Muslim Women's Network | Calendar or on their Facebook page |
Calendar
Here is the calendar of many different walking and cycling activities happening around Nottingham – all in one place – to enable active travel! The activities include, led walks, Nordic walking, community walks as well as learn to ride, cycle confidence and group cycle rides to name a few. These sessions are free. Most are managed by Nottingham City Council, funded by Active Travel England. Unless it specifically mentions Travel Well, either in the activity title, in the description or on the provider’s booking page, it will be managed entirely separately of the council.
Travel Well Big Green Books
Customised Big Green Books have been created by Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service for each area of focus for Travel Well.
These special editions for the project areas are all about unleashing the active traveller in you, guiding you to connect with friendly, community-based teams and activities promoting walking, cycling, and wheeling. To view find out more and the books click here or click on the image below.
Upcoming Meet the Travel Well team events
| Awaiting new dates |
Travel Well – News and information
Travel Well have launched a new podcast series. This gives a deeper look into some of the walking and cycling activities and the impact they have had. All episodes can be viewed here or seen on the related pages at the very bottom of this page.
Travel Well interviewed Councillor Dinnall to ask how she keeps active and the benefits of riding her bike. We spoke too with Councillor Radford and asked how he incorporates walking and cycling into his busy schedule.
Travel Well’s active travel community connector Charlotte and a patient she had referred to a Sustrans walking activity recently went on BBC Radio Nottingham.
And something you may find inspiring! A recent piece in The Guardian explores how walking in cities can be “just as good as a stroll in the countryside”.
Are you searching for Travel Well Bingo Cards? There are a range of cards which can be download suitable for different ages and abilities. Can you mark them all on your walk?
Travel Well Community Grant Scheme
Community organisations and local groups can apply for a grant to directly cover the costs of items to help encourage and enable walking and / or cycling. Travel Well focuses on the target areas approximately around Aspley, Beechdale and Bilborough, Bulwell and Bulwell Forest as well as St Ann’s and Sneinton. Examples of assets could be raincoats, D-locks, pool bikes or lockers. To find out more, please visit the Travel Well Community Grant Scheme page and if suitable, please submit an expression of interest form.
How are we reviewing that Travel Well is working?
We will be monitoring each of the Travel Well activities to understand what works and what doesn’t work. Travel surveys will be issued to people taking part in selected activities and results reported back to Active Travel England.
As well as this, we have been collecting a series of case studies. As part of this, there is a Travel Well podcast series. Hear what difference the walking or cycling provision has made to residents.
If you have taken part in any of the Travel Well activities or if you have any questions about Travel Well, please contact us on [email protected]
Travel Well is project led by Nottingham City Council in partnership with the Nottingham Place-based Partnership, Nottingham Community Voluntary Service and Nottingham City GP Alliance.
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