DateTuesday 17 September
Time
Sessions in the morning from 9am – 12.30pm. Afternoon sessions between 1.30pm – 4.30pm.
Location
5th Floor Colmore Gate, Bull Street, Birmingham, B3 2QD
Organisers
West Midlands TravelWise and INVOLVE
The event
With the constant fluctuation in fuel costs, the workforce demands a cheaper way of getting to work with options such as cycling and walking, public transport, and car sharing being the most viable options.
When encouraging more sustainable travel options they need to be attractive and competitive in meeting business and personal needs. For businesses in particular this means finding a way of ensuring that sustainable transport is consistent with commercial priorities. For individuals this may mean changing long established travel habits.
By being adaptable, flexible and agile, organisations that can work remotely or on the move as well as in the office are covering all eventualities whether they relate to congestion, bad weather, fuel shortages, strikes, accidents and major incidents. Adaptability enables us to protect or organisations in ensuring business continuity in the most difficult of circumstances. Dealing with these issues can now help us to future proof our businesses.
With this in mind, the West Midlands Region of TravelWise and INVOLVE are hosting a free conference for you to gain the expertise to introduce travel initiatives into your business and provide the support to help you. It will give you the opportunity to share best practice and act as a forum to network with other organisations with similar issues.
This free conference is for you if your business is:
- Learning about potential savings available to businesses by alternative methods
- Cutting costs and reducing emissions
- Reducing business travel
- Is struggling to keep/recruit staff due to transport issues
- Wanting to develop a travel plan to facilitate staff travel and transport issues
- Investing in the health and wellbeing of your staff
- Becoming a smarter business
- Considering or working towards becoming carbon neutral
- Wanting or looking to improve its environmental image or developing an Environmental Management System
How to attend and contact for more information
The full agenda is downloadable from this page. To book a free place email eventbookings@centro.org.uk with your name, company address and contact details or telephone the Sustainable Travel Team on 0121 214 7409.
