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fHome TFW Network Car Share &CamShare TfW Services (download) Take a Stand Travel Plan template - see Travel Plan Section TfW Network Meetings Travel Plan Awards		Services Join TfW - it's FREE! TfW member employers become entitled to many free services that can help make your travel plan as effective as possible. Full Members and Associate Members receive slightly different membership benefits. See the Membership Levels information sheet for further information. See Full TfW employers for the full member employers list. Join TfW - it's EASY! First get in touch to discuss your situation (click here for contact details). Following this you will be invited to write to us requesting membership - and its as easy as that! TfW Services See below to know more about the TfW services available to you. You can also click here to download the services information sheet. 1. Site Vists 2. Travel Plan Awards 3. Email Network 4. Travel Surveys 5. Mapping 6. Car Sharing/CamShare 7. Cycle Training 8. Take A Stand (£'s for cycle stands) 9. Cycle Shop Discounts 10. Cycle Purchase Tax Free Scheme 11. TfW Network Meetings 1. Site Visits Once you have made contact one of the TfW team will arrange to come and visit you. This fact-finding visit will allow us to provide you with the best bespoke advice. If you’d like us to come please contact us. 2. Workplace Travel Plan Awards Scheme The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Travel Plan Awards were established to reward employers for the work being undertaken in preparing and implementing workplace travel plans. The high profile awards ceremony takes place in Autumn each year and alternates between a Cambridgeshire location and Peterborough (2008 will see the ceremony in Peterborough). Businesses get good 'green' publicity from receiving awards, a pat on the back from us and some free food and drink! - together with a nicely framed certificate and, for full travel plans, a very nice 'iceberg' award!! Best of all many applicants find that their travel plans receive an extra boost by the receiving of an award. Click here to see the criteria for each award. If you would like to apply for the 2008 Travel Plan Awards please let Travel for Work know by Friday 11 July. To read about the 2007 Awards ceremony click here 3. Email network All new TfW members automatically join the TfW email network. You will receive regular emails from the TfW team that help the production and maintenance of workplace travel plans. 4. The Travel TO Work Survey The Annual TfW Survey takes place during the first week October. It is a valuable tool to anyone developing or monitoring the progress of a travel plan. This is a free service for full members of Travel for Work. For more information about the survey please call TfW on 01223 712429 For new employers we can also undertake one-off benchmarking surveys at any time of the year. One-off surveys If you are beginning to look at travel issues for your site it is most useful to know how your people are traveling to work at the present time. TfW can offer you a one-off survey that will collect data for a complete week. We will produce a report for you that indicates not just the percentage split between each mode of transport, but many additional details. Click here to see a generic version of a TfW travel survey. The bespoke survey gives you the opportunity of asking about three additional questions other than mode of travel. Cost TfW has to make a charge of £150 for a one-off survey. If you wish to ask more questions TfW can provide you with model surveys from other organisations for you to consider. To find out more about the TfW Travel Survey contact TfW 5. Mapping home postcodes Mapping the home locations of your staff is a most effective tool. TfW can produce two large A1 size maps and pdf versions to be used in travel plan literature you may produce. The first map shows all staff that live within a five mile radius of the site, including bus stops and rights of way for cycling/walking. These are the staff to whom you would promote walking and cycling. The larger scale map shows you where all of your staff residences are located and can give you the possibilities for promoting longer distance bus use, train use and clusters for car sharing. Why mapping is useful The visual representation is very powerful and gives you the ability to target for best wins (eg there is little point in promoting walking if no one lives within walking distance or the train if no one lives on a train route.) Staff find the maps of great interest. Often they do not know how many of their colleagues live near them or how close they live to cycling routes. The benefits of car sharing, bus/train use etc can become more clear. Click here to download (may take a minute or two to download) a generic version of the five mile map a generic version of all employees Data protection We map postcodes with the last digit removed. This is accurate enough for travel plan purposes and it means we can state categorically that no mapped postcode refers to one property. HR can usually provide an excel spread sheet of the postcodes in this format - if not we can remove the last digit. Cost There is a cost of £150 for a basic one site map. We will discuss costs for more complicated maps with you. 6. Car sharing & CamShare Car sharing is a very effective way of reducing the number of cars arriving on your site. There are a number of ways you can encourage car sharing. Our Car Sharing leaflet gives some good ideas [for up to date costings for CamShare online please now visit the new CamShare website]. CamShare.co.uk TfW together with Cambridgeshire County Council has developed a new (May 2008) online car share matching scheme 'CamShare'. We have appointed Liftshare.com to run the scheme. CamShare is an effective internet-based car sharing database. To see the website visit www.camshare.co.uk. CamShare is FREE to members of the public who can search for both car sharers and cycle journey sharing. Businesses may find it effective to set up a 'private group' that allows contact between employees via work addresses and provides access to impressive statistical and monitoring data. To see how much this might cost - click here to see the Business pages on the website and if you are interested contact Liftshare direct. Businesses with private CamShare groups may like to use the editable promotional poster. Please note the poster is in pdf format and you require Adobe Acrobat Writer to be able to edit. TfW runs regular prize draws to promote CamShare see TfW news page to see if one is currently running. TfW offers employers free TfW Parker Pens in return for car sharers' anecdotes to be used in newsletters etc. 7.Adult Cycle Training Getting your employees back on their bikes to commute to work can be difficult, even in cycle friendly and flat Cambridgeshire! Adult cycle training (ACT) could be the answer. (This scheme, developed by TfW is now run by Cambridgeshire County Council). ACT has recruited professional cycle trainers whose track record is second to none! Whether your people have never cycled before or need confidence to cycle with traffic, cycle training will help them become fitter, happier and wealthier. Training is undertaken in one hour sessions and can take place at any mutually convenient location. There is an hourly fee for the training. It is also possible to train a group of employees at your workplace for a reduced fee. Contact Lindsey Rushmore on 01223 712455 or email info@tfw.org.uk to find out more. 8. Take a Stand This annual scheme provides employers with co-funding for the provision or improvement of cycle facilities at their work sites. The bidding window is open from 1 April until 30 June 2008 and application forms are available from TfW. Go to the News page for information on the current scheme. 9. Cycle Shop Discounts Travel for Work has negotiated significant discounts with cycle shops in Cambridge for full TfW network members. (If you are unsure if your organisation is full member of TfW check out our full TfW employers list or contact the team.) With these discounts your employees will be able to take full advantage of the initiatives you put in place to promote cycling. If you buy new pool bikes then using the TfW discount could lead to considerable savings! Click cycle shops' discounts. to view. To save, right click on the mouse whilst the cursor is on cycle shops' discounts link, choose 'save target as' to download a copy and print off. 10. Cycle to Work Tax Free Schemes Cycle to Work is a Government tax incentive scheme. It allows employees to benefit from a long term loan of bikes and commuting equipment such as lights, locks and panniers completely tax free. At the end of the loan period it is possible for the employee to purchase the bike at reduced cost. This is similar to another scheme aimed at increasing home computing usage. See DfT's guidance for employers booklet 'Cycle to Work schemes' Cycle to Work tax free scheme can be run in-house or through administrators for more information see bikeforall. If you'd like to know which scheme suits your requirements locally check out our comparison of tax free scheme administrators. Information was supplied and agreed by operators Dec 06. 11. TfW Network Meetings The Travel for Work Network is a group over 50 employers in Cambridgeshire The network meets occasionally at events and at meetings to discuss travel planning issues Go to the Diary and Events page to find out more.