Community Building Session: CTWeek24 Impact & Highlights

The focus for this months session is: CTWeek24 Impact & Highlights

Following another successful edition of Community Transport Week, join us at our next Community Building Session to continue the celebrations of the wonderful CT sector!

Come along to hear from CTA's CT Week Lead and Director for Scotland, David Kelly, as he reflects on some of the highlights of CT Week, the impact of messaging throughout the week, and the events across the UK that made CT Week 2024 so special.

Whether you were involved with CT Week 2024 or not, we'd love to see you at the session, hear about any events or projects you were involved with during CT Week, and take on board any suggestions you might have for making CT Week even bigger and better in the future!

You can read more about CT Week 24, how two very different Scotland-based Community Transport operators started, evolved and maintained services and what we can learn from their experiences here. 

Running a Community Transport Organisation can be incredibly rewarding, with enormous opportunities to support communities and make an impact. Consequently, CT services can be challenging and somewhat isolated, especially when you need advice, a sounding board or want to chat through an issue or development opportunity.

For this reason, CTA is building on the success of our national advice helpline and the ‘Advice Drop Ins’ introduced during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and relaunching it with a new name, Community Building Sessions. We recognise that our members face unique challenges and that the support of peers who understand those challenges can be incredibly valuable.

Our goal is to make these sessions more engaging, interactive and to foster a sense of community among all of us who are working to improve transport services in our communities.

The sessions run once a month, online and will create additional opportunities for us all to:

• Discuss any issues relating to CT in an open and supportive environment.#
• Uncover emerging trends such as decarbonisation, climate actions, funding opportunities or any updates across the sector.
• Network and build connections with members across regional and national boundaries.
• Resolve complex or sensitive queries from members through peer-to-peer learning.
• Gather intelligence and ideas from CTOs about what’s happening in the sector to feed into CTA's policy, influencing and campaign work.
• Connect with CT Operators across regional/national boundaries.
• Gather feedback from members on how CTA can better support their cause.

We can't wait to welcome you along to our Community Building Sessions, make sure to update your diaries and register now!