1. Register now 2. Invite friends and colleagues 3. Log Journeys to win!
The East Sussex Active Travel Challenge for workplaces is an online journey-logging tool. The Covid-19 pandemic is impacting on how we travel and work, so individuals can record their current commuting; work-based journeys; or even any journeys they take if they are home working, then win prizes and share their experiences. The Challenge runs from the 1 – 31 October 2020.
What is the challenge?
The Challenge is designed to encourage people who live and work in East Sussex to travel actively and switch to walking, cycling – for all or part of journeys – and to public transport where appropriate.
You can log any journey such as your usual commute, a trip to the shops, or the school run. Many more people are working from home now, so the Challenge also encourages you to have a break and walk, run or cycle during the day, and you can log these activities too.
It’s free and easy to participate, all you need to do is register to take part and start logging your journeys in October to move up the leader board. Anyone in East Sussex can take part and you can compete against other organisations and individuals across the county too.
Why take part?
Take part because it’s a great way to keep active!
This online tool provides detailed feedback on your progress, access to great rewards and allows you to interact with friends, colleagues and other participants from across East Sussex.
There are also a wide range of prizes on offer for individuals and groups to encourage you along the way.
Perhaps most importantly, cycling, scooting, running and walking are great ways of incorporating exercise into your day; whilst public transport, lift sharing and video conferencing are great ways to reduce congestion and can save you money. All this helps you get fitter, feel good, and do your bit for the benefit of the environment.
Which journeys count?
Any journeys to work or for work that are carried out on foot, by bike, by public transport or car-sharing all count. You can also log a ‘work at home’ day if you are undertaking exercise to replace the journey you would have made, if it means you don’t have to travel. Virtual meetings that replace in-person meetings you would have made will also count. For virtual meetings you will need to tell us how far you would have travelled and which travel mode you would have used.
The more journeys you log, the higher you’ll move up the leaderboard.
How do I win?
Log journeys made by active travel in order to qualify for prize draws. See this page for details of everything on offer by week, and for overall winners.
These can either be journeys to/ from or at work, or, if you are having to work from home for Covid-related reasons, any ‘journey’ activities to stay active in your work day such as walking, running or cycling can also be logged.
Finally, where you swap from using your car to active travel, e.g. if you decide to walk, cycle, scoot or run to the shops, to school with the kids, or to the park instead of driving, these journeys can be logged.
Workplaces
The winning workplace in each size category will be the one that has the highest level of participation.
Get your colleagues involved and encourage them to leave the car at home and get active, lift share or take public transport to get to work, or add to their sedentary working from home day with a run or walk round the park. There are loads of travel options to choose from.
Logging just one journey is enough to be included as a participant, helping your team to climb the leaderboard. We hope that they will enjoy a more active lifestyle and will give it another try by making commute or supermarket journeys in a more sustainable way.
Individuals
Remember that to climb the leaderboard you must make and log lots of journeys rather than a small number of long journeys. We want to see you making regular changes to your commuting, day to day, exercise, and business journeys. We will be celebrating your success with loads of prizes along the way as well as putting the top 10 from the leaderboard into a grand prize draw at the end of October.
Find out more about the challenge and sign up at getmeactive.org.uk