Bideford College Wins Gold Devon TravelWise Award

Green minded students have helped Bideford College to win a Gold  Devon Schools TravelWise award.

Eighty six schools across the county have received the TravelWise Awards, a total of 24 Bronze, 29 Silver, 14 Gold and 19 Platinum, from Devon County Council’s Travelwise team.

Devon

County Council supports schools across Devon to plan, write, update and

implement their School Travel Plans every year. Some of the schools

which are being recognised for promoting green travel have had travel

plans in place for over four years.

Currently 368 (99.7%) of

Devon’s local authority maintained schools have travel plans. Staff,

pupils and parents have made great efforts to improve their local

environment and promote green travel by increasing walking, cycling and

car sharing.

Other Bideford schools to receive awards were St Margaret's Junior School, Appledore Primary and Nursery who won Silver Awards.

Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council

Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation, said: “All of these

schools have shown a commitment to reducing their carbon footprint.

Across the county, thousands of schoolchildren are now walking and

cycling to school and car use has fallen at these award winning schools

by as much as 15%. All of this positive work has provided benefits of

daily exercise, improved safety and reduced congestion and pollution

outside the school gates.”