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The volunteer spirit

Delivering personal travel plans with volunteers’ sounds like a “cheap option”, but Southend’s Ashley Dalton believes the benefits are not just financial, but wider engagement, increasing local skills and employment

Ashley Dalton
06 November 2012
Supporting and advising residents is part of a volunteer’s role
Supporting and advising residents is part of a volunteer’s role
Ashley Dalton
Ashley Dalton

 

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is delivering personal travel plans (PTP), through a project staffed by volunteers. Our LSTF project aims to promote sustainable transport and increase low carbon economic growth. By targeting neighbourhoods experiencing a degree of socio-economic deprivation with PTP, we have sought to exploit opportunities within the programme to offer training, volunteering and work experience in order to develop employability and increase skills.

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