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Keeping Manchester moving: Go-Ahead kicks off Britain’s biggest recruitment campaign for bus drivers
- Go-Ahead's Manchester bus company, Go North West, to hire 300 drivers on apprenticeship or training contracts
- The drivers will operate Bee Network buses as part of mayor Andy Burnham's new integrated transport network

David Cutts to become Managing Director of Go-Ahead London
- David Cutts, presently Operations Director, to become Managing Director in January
- After 16 years in the role, John Trayner steps back from day-to-day operations
- Go-Ahead London operates a quarter of London’s buses on behalf of Transport for London

Go-Ahead announces management changes at Go North East
- Nigel Featham appointed Managing Director of Go North East in addition to Go North West
- Ben Gilligan becomes Managing Director of East Yorkshire Buses

The Go-Ahead Group and Lacroix & Savac agree strategic partnership
- Partnership will explore opportunities to bid for bus contracts in Paris
- The French market was identified as a priority under Go-Ahead's new corporate strategy

The Go-Ahead Group expands in Ireland
- Recruitment campaign launched to hire 180 people, bringing total workforce close to 800
- Roles to support ongoing expansion of bus operations in and around Dublin
- Ireland is one of Go-Ahead’s four public transport markets outside the UK

Go-Ahead Group unveils new Passenger-powered websites as monthly active app users exceed 377,000
The following press release was issued by Passenger.

Go-Ahead pledges to spend at least £250m annually with small businesses
The Go-Ahead Group has set out a strategy to increase spending with small and medium sized businesses across all 12 of its UK bus and rail operating companies.

Go-Ahead welcomes further funding package for bus services in England
Go-Ahead today welcomes the announcement from the Department for Transport (DfT) regarding extended funding of bus services in England, to be provided by the UK Government.

Go-Ahead comment on national bus strategy
David Brown, Chief Executive of Go-Ahead has provided a statement on the publication of the national bus strategy.

Go-Ahead backs 'Net Zero' plan as it launches first fully electric bus fleet in the North East
- Go-Ahead cements its position as the UK’s largest operator of electric buses with new ‘clean, green’ fleet across the North East
- Government’s Ultra-Low Emission Fund helps to fund £2 million move, which takes electric buses to Newcastle and Gateshead
- The move helps Go-Ahead accelerate towards target of operating a ‘net zero’ bus fleet by 2035
- Transport Secretary Grant Shapps hails move as example of industry “actively supporting” Government’s ambitions to end the UK’s contribution to climate change

Go-Ahead pledges to source one third of all its supply chain from boosting local businesses
- Bus and rail services play a critical role in keeping communities connected
- Go-Ahead is supporting local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to remain viable and to grow during the pandemic and in the longer-term
- Go-Ahead’s bus and rail companies have delivered £5 million worth of community investment through volunteering, donations and fundraising in the past five years

Go-Ahead crowns Swiftly winner of its 2020 innovation programme
- Go-Ahead’s Billion Journey Project is the UK’s largest transport accelerator programme for start-up and scale-up businesses
- Swiftly worked with bus company Go South Coast to improve efficiencies by 15 per cent to enable more reliable and quicker journeys
- Nine innovative companies trialed their technology across Go-Ahead’s bus and rail businesses