Jobseeker Bus Vouchers

Dave SkepperCommercial Director

Stagecoach East Midlands

500 buses

1,375 people

Depots in Lincoln, Grimsby, Hull, Gainsborough, Skegness, Scunthorpe, Newark, Mansfield, Worksop

53 million passengers

23 million miles

£60 million turnover

Serving our customers

Satisfying a demand for travel from local communities

Meeting a range of reasons for travel including employment, education, healthcare, retail and social needs

Keeping in touch with travel needs and trends

Adapting our route networks, bus services and ticketing offers to changes in travel demand

Working with external business partners to deliver all of the above

“Partnership”

“A cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal.”

Quality Bus Partnerships

Nottinghamshire County Council

Derbyshire County Council

Lincolnshire County Council

Hull City Council

North East Lincolnshire Council

North Lincolnshire Council

Success comes from working together….

to get the job done…

to deliver a quality product….

A New Partner

Introduced to AAP by Nottinghamshire County Council

Seeking partners to help deliver the “Ways to Work” project

Looking to promote access to employment using environmentally friendly modes

Changing communities

Comprehensive bus route network serving communities across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Bus services provide access to towns and cities for retail, healthcare and social needs

Travel trends are changing as traditional industries decline

“Ways to Work” uses the established bus network to enable people to access new employment opportunities

Jobseeker Bus Vouchers - objectives

Provides free travel for local unemployed people to job interviews

Provides free travel to commute to work in the first few weeks of a new job until the first pay cheque arrives

Directs users to good travel information about local bus services

Simple – easy to understand, unlimited travel in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and South Yorkshire

Funding the project

Stagecoach East Midlands funds 40% of the cost of the vouchers as a commercial initiative

AAP funds the remaining voucher cost

Vouchers are ordered as required, which ensures costs are managed efficiently

Everybody wins! 2,000 vouchers issued

to date

Enables people to secure employment, which raises self esteem and living standards

Bus travel is environmentally friendly, reduces traffic congestion and pollution

Encourages more people to use local bus services, which maintains their viability

Everybody wins!

Sustains good public transport links to employment, education, healthcare and retail facilities

Better living standards, improved self esteem

Reduced social exclusion, deprivation crime, and poverty

Better communities

Cyclical effect, upward spiral

Looking to the future Funding source will continue to

provide the current scheme into the near future

Working with AAP to seek alternative funding to enable the project to continue

Launch of Post 16 student travel initiative in Mansfield following discussions facilitated by AAP

Potential to improve Worksop area bus services to deliver better access to employment opportunities

Thank you for listening!