Community Transport Association has received a £10,000 funding boost as part of Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards, which will improve transport across communities.
For the sixth year running, Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is giving away over £1million to charities across the year.
Community Transport Association is a member-led charity supporting organisations delivering Community Transport services across the UK. They support and advocate on behalf of their members so they can deliver innovative and flexible transport solutions to achieve social change and remove transport barriers facing their communities.
The £10,000 donation, made as part of the Movement for Good Awards, will go towards transforming the content for the charity’s national training scheme for drivers supporting passengers with additional needs. The new accessible content will take an innovative and person-centred approach to supporting disabled people, working towards an inclusive society, particularly in terms of travel. When it launches next Spring, the training will impact the lives of hundreds of disabled people who make their journeys via Community Transport.
Dr Victoria Armstrong, Chief Executive, Community Transport Association says, “I am delighted that the CTA have been awarded a grant of £10,000 from the Movement for Good programme. The grant will significantly contribute to the transformation of our accessible driver training and ensure that it is contemporary, user led, and up to date. It will mean that more disabled people travelling via Community Transport experience safe, legal, and comfortable journeys across the UK in years to come.”
A charity has picked up £1,000, Dogs 4 Rescue, that rescues dogs who need them most. They save their places for the dogs no one else wants to help and they are proof that kennel-free communal living works and is hugely beneficial to a dog’s wellbeing, socialisation and rehabilitation needs.
Another charity operating in the climate and environment sector has been awarded £5,000, The Carbon Literacy Trust, is a massive collaboration project that involves people and organisations from all sectors and walks of life working together and contributing time, materials and funding to advance understanding and action on climate change.
Further winners will be revealed later in the year and residents across Manchester are encouraged to keep nominating causes they care about by visiting https://movementforgood.com/.
Mark Hews, Group Chief Executive at Benefact Group, said: “We would like to thank every single person who took the time to nominate a good cause as part of our Movement for Good Awards. Benefact Group is a family of award-winning specialist financial services companies and the third largest corporate donor to charity in the UK. Owned by a charity ourselves, charitable giving is at the heart of what we do. All of our available profits go to good causes and the more the Group grows, the more the Group can give.
“We are delighted to be able to donate over £1million to good causes each year through our Movement for Good Awards and are grateful to all our supporters, including the customers of the trusted insurer, Ecclesiastical, and the responsible and sustainable asset manager, EdenTree. We know that £1,000 can make a huge difference to the incredible work that charities do and we’re looking forward to seeing how this financial boost will change lives for the better.”
Benefact Group has donated over £200million to charitable causes since 2014 and last year was recognised as the third biggest corporate giver in the UK1. The organisation aims to reach £250million in donations by 2025.
Movement for Good is funded by EIO plc, part of the Benefact Group.
