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Go-Ahead takes steps to safeguard transport workers’ mental health during COVID-19 pandemic
- Southeastern to launch mental health charter for rail operators this month, with the aim to extend to bus
- Covid-19 pandemic sharply escalates stress, anxiety and isolation among transport workers
- Go-Ahead is training Mental Health ‘First Aiders’ at every UK rail and bus business
Leave your car at home twice a month for the good of the planet, urges Go-Ahead
- Switching one in 25 car journeys to public transport would save the UK two million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions
- Public transport and active travel (walking and cycling) are part of the Government’s Green Ten Point Plan
- Earth Day (22 April) encourages individuals to think how they can help to Restore Our Earth
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 Group Half year results for the six months ended 2 January 2021
Three priorities unchanged through the pandemic: to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our colleagues and customers; to play our role in society; and to protect our business.
Statement on budget: Go-Ahead Group urges further measures to support green transport
- Super-deduction could enable investment in green transport technology
- Support for apprenticeships will be a boost for career switchers
- Go-Ahead calls for more measures to get people out of their cars
Go-Ahead training mental health first aiders across all its bus companies
- 10 regional bus companies will each have go-to representatives on mental health
- Practical training is provided to spot triggers, reassure people in distress, and seek support
- Initiative developed in response to a UK-wide increase in anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
Go-Ahead named most admired transport company for community and environmental responsibility
- Go-Ahead tops table of 11 UK transport companies in independent ranking on community and environment
- The company received the highest scores overall of all bus and train operators
- Research is published by Britain’s Most Admired Companies (BMAC) - Britain’s longest running survey of corporate reputation
Go-Ahead invests for rebound in public transport by hiring more than 1,100 apprentices in 2021
- The Go-Ahead Group sets a goal of hiring more than 1,100 apprentices across bus and rail in 2021
- Transport operator bucks the economy-wide trend of falling apprenticeship starts
- Two thirds of Go-Ahead’s apprentices will be deployed on London buses
Go-Ahead bus is one of the UK's first Covid-19 Mobile Vaccination units
The NHS and Metrobus have launched one of the UK’s first Covid-19 Mobile Vaccination Units in a bus in Crawley, targeting hard-to-reach and vulnerable communities.
Go-Ahead launches one of the UK’s first dedicated vaccination shuttle bus services in the North East
Go-Ahead bus company Go North East has today launched one of the UK’s first dedicated vaccination shuttle bus services.
Go-Ahead tops UK transport industry in cutting carbon emissions
- The Go-Ahead Group achieves “A minus” rating from the CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project)
- Emissions down 22% since 2016 despite international expansion in operations
- Impact of the “beast from the east” storm prompted renewed focus on climate change
- Rating reflects benefits of Britain’s largest fleet of zero-emission electric buses
Go-Ahead hires 650 bus and rail apprentices during Covid-19 pandemic
- Apprenticeship applications double in rail and jump by a third in bus as transport attracts Coronavirus career switchers
- Despite the challenges of 2020, Go-Ahead has continued to invest in its workforce for the future
- Recruits include a former airline pilot, a member of the French Foreign legion, a prison van driver and a guitar instructor