Active journeys: building healthy and greener habits for life
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust works with partners like you to change how our communities travel, helping people to walk, wheel and cycle for more of their everyday journeys.
As leading experts in behaviour change and engagement, we turn good intentions into lasting action. We help people embrace healthier habits for life, creating happier lives, healthier places, and stronger communities where everyone can thrive.
Our Active Journeys offer helps more people make everyday trips by walking, wheeling, cycling and scootering.
Through a tailored package of behaviour change and engagement programmes, we work with partners like you to make active travel a realistic, attractive choice for more people.
At Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, we're trusted experts in creating lasting behaviour change.
We understand what motivates people and what holds them back.
And we've got a proven track record of working directly with communities to make the changes they want to see and creating healthier habits for life.
Because when more people choose to walk, wheel or cycle, the benefits reach far beyond the journey itself - it changes everything. Our health, our wellbeing and our world.
We are a trusted delivery partner for school-based active travel
We make it easier to walk, wheel and cycle by creating healthy, sociable, accessible and inspiring places with and for communities.
Working together with local councils, communities and businesses we create change that works for everyone.
We shape our solutions based on the specific needs of your local area.
Our offer is scalable and evidence‑backed; enabling a shift from inactive modes, like driving, to active modes such as walking, wheeling, cycling and scootering.
We are experts in all phases of school street delivery -from urban design and planning to helping schools embed active travel into school culture.
Our initiatives make it possible for every child to travel to school actively and safely.
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Creating safe school streets
We know that children want to travel actively, but the biggest barrier is concerns over safety.
We work with local authorities and schools around the UK to make it possible for every child to travel to school actively and safely.
We are experts in all phases of school street delivery - from urban design and planning to helping schools embed active travel into school culture.
We’ve been trusted by local authorities and schools across the UK to develop more than 750 School Street projects.
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Neighbourhoods and co-design
We are experts in designing low-traffic neighbourhoods and healthy streets.
Our design and engineering team works across multiple scales, specialities, and spaces.
We make it easier to walk, wheel and cycle by creating healthy, sociable, accessible and inspiring places with and for communities.
Working together with local councils, communities and businesses we create change that works for everyone.
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The Big walk and wheel and FRideDays bike bus
The Big walk and wheel and FRideDays bike bus engages thousands of schools and pupils nationwide to walk, wheel, scoot and cycle to school; driving long-term behaviour change and supporting safer school streets.
Both initiatives offer scalable, evidence‑backed ways to increase active school travel, reduce congestion around school gates, and improve air quality in line with statutory environmental and transport goals.
We help create liveable cities and towns
Over 50
Local authorities worked with in 2025/26 — engaging and supporting their communities to change their travel behaviour
2 million
Walking, wheeling and cycling journeys logged during Big Walk and Wheel 2026
11 %
Increase in children across the UK using active travel to get to school
78,000
School children engaged in active travel activities
Why we’re your next strategic partner
We are experts working with local authorities to deliver to your strategic needs and priorities.
Our active journey offer supports local authority goals by reducing congestion and improving air quality through fewer car‑dependent trips.
The offer aligns with public-sector sustainability targets while delivering scalable solutions that enhance community health and economic resilience.
By investing in our active journey offer, we can support you meet statutory environmental commitments and demonstrate measurable social value.
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Community engagement
We work directly with communities, including less represented groups, to identify the barriers to active travel and develop solutions that meet everyone’s needs.
Community engagement is at the heart of our approach.
We put people first, using co-design and genuine engagement to reflect local voices and build a strong sense of ownership.
Our team engages local residents, families, and community groups through tailored outreach, events, and partnerships.
Many of the groups we support continue to grow long after a project ends.
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Improved health and wellbeing
Our active journey projects create long‑term, positive behaviour change around everyday travel.
By making it easier and more attractive for people to choose walking, wheeling and cycling, our offer helps address the root causes of poor health linked to inactivity and car‑dependent travel.
Increased physical activity can protect against a range of preventable health conditions and boosts mental wellbeing.
For children and young people, walking and cycling to school are linked to better mood, independence, socialisation; benefiting both their physical and emotional development.
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Progress on climate, inclusion and transport goals
Active travel reduces car dependency, lowers emissions, and supports public health and environmental sustainability.
It contributes to more resilient communities by improving connectivity, reducing transport costs, and enhancing local liveability through behaviour change.
Our approach includes securing leases and access rights, designing for biodiversity and ecology, and removing barriers to ensure inclusive access for everyone.
We create and develop greenways and traffic-free paths that connect people with places and nature.
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Strategic investment value
Public Health England and other bodies highlight active travel as a “win-win” for health, environment, and local productivity.
Our active journey initiatives deliver measurable impact aligned with national policy and local priorities.
We offer insight and expertise needed to deliver successful active travel schemes that create lasting change for communities, councils and the wider area.
Because when we change how we travel, we change everything.
Our health. Our wellbeing. Our world.
Partner with us for lasting change
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust works with hundreds of clients and partners across the UK to make it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle.
We shape our solutions based on the specific needs of your local area.
Since 1977, we've been providing support and consultancy on a wide range of schemes which make active journeys safer, easier and more appealing to even more people.
Together, we’re helping transform towns and cities into healthier, greener places that benefit communities and empower change.
If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch.
Contact us at: enquiries@walkwheelcycletrust.org.uk
Our transformative projects across the UK
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Creating safer school streets in England
Creating safer school streets in SeftonSince 2023, Sefton Council and Walk Wheel Cycle Trust have been working in partnership on several collaborative design projects, with the goal of making school neighbourhoods and school journeys in Sefton safer for everyone.
Active travel is helping to enable autonomy and independence in older children, and greater social interaction within the school community.
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Community wealth building in Scotland
Community Wealth Building and active travel: a practical vision for thriving communitiesOur latest research looks at how active travel could help facilitate Community Wealth Building – an approach that emphasises the ‘local’ in local economy.
It means money is reinvested in the community, helping to tackle inequalities and reduce demand on public services in a just and fair way.
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Students at Ysgol Pendalar in Wales champion inclusivity in active travel
Students from Ysgol Pendalar, an additional learning needs school in Caernarfon, recently took part in a sponsored walk and wheel to fundraise for a fleet of adaptive bikes for the school.
Working in partnership with Gwynedd council’s road safety team and Walk Wheel Cycle Trust’s active journey offer, the school has championed inclusion so that everyone at the school can take part in travelling actively.
North Wales pupils raise money to buy fleet of adaptive bicycles
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Active Travel Hub boosts walking and cycling in West Belfast
Whiterock Active Travel Hub to boost walking and cycling in West BelfastIn partnership with communities, Walk Wheel Cycle Trust co-designs programmes and runs activities for local people to learn new skills and get active.
The Active Travel Hub in Belfast gives individuals and groups in the area more opportunities to take part in the Belfast Community active travel (#BCAT) programme.
We influence policy and drive sustainable change — explore our latest advocacy and policy work to see how.
