It's been 4 years of GCRP and we're happy to share our latest impact report!

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Discover how we're transforming lives through accessible and sustainable rail travel. From empowering young people to explore nature and build travel confidence to amplifying community voices in transport decisions, we're making a real difference.

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Our report not only showcases our achievements over the past year but also highlights the partnerships created, strategic approaches we have developed and the positive impact we've had on the local community. 

We're excited to continue building travel confidence and supporting sustainable travel solutions.

Discover how GCRP works with local organisations and communities to promotes car-free, rail, and active travel choices through engagement and consultation.

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This report shows innovative engagement strategies that enable us to gather direct insights from people, including under represented communities about their travel choices, needs and motivations. 

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These insights are highly valuable for businesses and organisations focused on
access, planning and construction, as well as the public sector.

Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership (GCRP) takes a strategic and proactive role in improving access to public transport through projects that empower and engage the communities served by Gloucestershire’s 9 railway stations.

For this Cotswold National Landscape funded project, Mima has been asked to provide access consultancy services to Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership and conduct a feasibility study of where a ‘Cotswold Calm Corner’ may be installed. This would be an accessible environment for disabled people, decompression space for neurodivergent users and multi-faith area for those wishing to pray or reflect.

This impact report covers our activity in our first two years as a partnership. 

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Focusing on communities, youth & education, transport planning, and leisure & tourism, our projects focus on addressing the impact of social injustices and health and wellbeing inequalities on low-income individuals, families and ethnic minorities, both nationally and in Gloucestershire. 

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Our impact report covers how we put people and communities at the forefront of all our thinking, and how to put the sustainable transport agenda on the map through a participative, community led approach. 

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We have a lot of ideas in the pipeline which we will be sharing in our plan once complete. In the meantime, we are always eager to hear of new possible project ideas, so do please get in touch if you would like to discuss any ideas you may have. 

A report outlining opportunities for businesses to attract new youth audiences through sustainable travel. 

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The aim of this toolkit is to equip tourism organisations and the local businesses with the resources and knowledge needed to address the travel and transport challenges faced by young people. By providing practical solutions and highlighting best practices, we seek to promote sustainable travel options, improve accessibility to leisure destinations, and support the county’s broader economic and sustainability goals.

In 2019, all Gloucestershire councils declared a climate emergency, which included commitments to be net zero by 2030 and deliver a carbon neutral county by 2045. Changing travel behaviours associated with tourism and leisure, including more travel to, from and within Gloucestershire by rail, will be important in managing and reducing emissions.

There is a significant opportunity for Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership to initiate and facilitate collaborative approaches and be at the centre of efforts to achieve more sustainable tourism in Gloucestershire.

​This report introduces the concept of ‘Rail to Leisure’ as a factor to promote carbon reduction. 

Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership (GCRP) commission Participation People  to produce a report on the habits of young people in relation to public transport and their
perceptions of sustainable travel to inform marketing messaging for GCRP that would encourage young peopel to get travelling more sustainably.

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The report was produced by young researchers on the back of an initial focus group with youth from The Music Works and a survey which 586 young people responded to.

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Read the report to find out more!

We’re always looking for ways to partner with other organisations and combined forces on research. This can be really local or County-wide, and we have already teamed up with GCC, Stroud District Council and University of Gloucestershire to get engaged with our communities. 

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We are very keen to work with local groups involved in access and inclusion in your local area. GCRP is linked into Inclusion Gloucestershire and is taking part in the Better Links to Transport initiative. If any local organisation would kuke us to support a local access initiative or study, please get in touch

Discover how GCRP works with young people to leverage insights and impact engagement with, and knowledge of, young people.

This report shows key insights from our work over the past 4 years, showing how barriers to accessing opportunities by rail can be overcome and how you can work with us to make travel safer, more convenient, and vibrant for young people.

We commissioned Inclusion Gloucestershire to carry out access audits for twenty destination attractions in Gloucestershire, including their accessibility from nine of the closest railway stations. Inclusion Gloucestershire worked with Experts by Experience to design an audit framework to consider planning a visit, getting to the location by rail (including the onward mile journey), and the experience at the destination, from a range of perspectives and lived experiences. The report highlights the key findings, examples of good practice and recommendations for improvement. Our aim is to open up visitor attractions to be inclusive in their offer and to ensure seamless accessible connections can take place. 

Take a look at what we've been up to over the past 3 years as we celebrate our 3rd birthday with the release of our new impact report. 

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From supporting young people to access nature through rail travel and build their confidence towards independent travel, to providing a voice for local communities to feedback on transport options in their local area and there's even a dance performance on a train! 

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Our impact report details not only what we have done over the last year but also the impact it has had on the local community. 

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We’ve been working with local authorities, developers and planning consultants to develop our own GCRP Developer Guide.

This helps local communities express their views on planning proposals, especially the transport approach taken by the developer.

The toolkit provides guidance and a series of templates and tools to encourage early engagement with the developer, and how to respond effectively to planning applications.

It also provides guidance of how you can work with CRP to collect local evidence and information to help inform the transport solutions, whether that’s walking cycling, bus, rail or a different focus.