Active travel services

As well as supporting all Doncaster residents to make active travel journeys where possible – including making major infrastructure improvements across the borough - the Active Travel team at Doncaster Council work closely with local businesses and schools to support staff, students and other residents to walk or cycle to their workplace or school.

Support is available for Doncaster workplaces to encourage their employees to make active travel choices. The following services are available through Doncaster Council's Active Travel team, who work closely with Get Doncaster Moving.

You may also be interested in Get Doncaster Moving's Corporate Volunteering Days for businesses of all sizes and requirements - more information about this can be found here: Corporate Volunteering

Doncaster Council's Active Travel Officers can support schools to promote the benefits of cycling to children, parents and teachers, address any safety concerns and organise training opportunities, practical activities and organise events to encourage people to give cycling a try. Please contact transportationunit@doncaster.gov.uk for more details.

Other services include:

Doncaster's ambition is to be a place where people find it easy, safe and enjoyable to make journeys on foot, by bike and on public transport for work, pleasure and everything in between. Our Borough's strategy recognises that developing more active ways to travel will provide more pleasant streets, better air quality, lower carbon emissions, reduce congestion and reduce physical inactivity.

Doncaster's Active Travel Alliance (DATA) brings together partners who have resources, ideas and plans to work collectively to increase and promote active travel, under a single shared purpose. DATA is responsible for the implementation of the associated strategies, plans and projects. Our joined-up approach enables a greater impact and a consistent message about the benefits of active travel.

The alliance meets every eight weeks and the Get Doncaster Moving team are an active member of the group, to support our collective strategy ambitions for Active Travel.

Doncaster's ambition is to be a cycling town where residents choose to cycle because it is a healthy, safe and attractive method of transport. Doncaster has invested heavily in cycle infrastructure over recent years and continues to provide better cycle facilities for the residents of the borough.

In 2019, Sustrans were assigned to independently review what was needed to increase the number of people cycling across the borough. They consulted with residents, councillors, interested stakeholders and local cycle groups to gain knowledge of the area. This insight formed the basis for the Get Doncaster Cycling strategy.

The Get Doncaster Walking Strategy outlines the action needed for Doncaster to be a town that's designed for people to walk throughout their day to day lives. Doncaster is a place where walking is an integral part of everyday life, and this strategy sets out what is being done to make walking in Doncaster easier, safer and more enjoyable for everyone.