Greater Manchester’s Community Transport Operators reaching out to Voluntary Sector
Greater Manchester’s community transport sector received a big boost last year, securing funding from the National Lottery’s ‘Awards for All’ programme.
The ‘Vehicles for Success’ project, enables local community transport operators to build better links with voluntary and community groups in order to provide training and support to meet their transport needs. Information about help for voluntary groups operating their own vehicles has been produced, along with the opportunity to join the Forum as an associate member.
The funding has also paid for the creation of a database of voluntary groups that hold their own vehicles, with the aim of enabling more groups to share their vehicles with others.
Neil Foley, Chair of the Greater Manchester Community Transport Forum said, “This is a timely boost for the sector as we are aware of groups that have specific transport needs and this will give us the resources to reach out to them. The database of vehicle owning groups could enable some groups to make better use of budgets and generate additional income, which I’m sure will be very welcome in these tough times. The project should also help to raise the profile of the good work being carried out by community transport operators across Greater Manchester.”
Further information
Becoming a member - electronic leaflet about membership of the Forum, with enquiry form
Help with running your minibus - information about help available to community groups who operate a minibus or van to provide transport services to their members.
GMCTF quality standards published
The GMCTF Quality Framework, developed by and for Greater Manchester's CT Sector, is now available.
Accreditation to GMCTF standards demonstrates to current and potential partners that an Operator meets auditable standards in seven key areas of administration and service delivery.
For more information see this page.