A social enterprise gearing up to new opportunities in transport

Mobility can be maintained or improved, despite shrinking budgets, according to social enterprise transport operator HCT Group. Lee Baker asks chief executive Dai Powell how it plans to achieve this

14 March 2011

Dai Powell, HCT Group chief executive, sees the current financial climate as an opportunity for social enterprises such as HCT

Dai Powell, chief executive of the HCT Group, is not like most other people working in the public transport sector right now. For one thing, he is optimistic that mobility can be maintained or even improved over the coming years, despite the decline in public spending.

“If local authorities are prepared to do things differently, we can rise to this challenge of reduced budgets without reducing people’s travel options,” he tells LTT. “If councils are prepared to pool...