People and Place 2025-26 Case Studies
Adventure Oban – Active Travel Maps in Schools
Adventure Oban is a community-led charity based in Oban, which aims to enable equal access to Oban’s natural playground. Their Active Routes to Schools project aims to increase active travel in Oban, Lorne and the Isles through a focus on children and young people.
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Residents living in Highland Council flats on the Raigmore Estate in Inverness now have somewhere secure to store a bike thanks to HITRANS funding.
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Retired nurse Celia Talbot, 73, who lives in the Fort William area, has osteoarthritis and has also been diagnosed with MS. She had to give up cycling due to difficulty balancing and moving on a conventional bike. After trying out an e-trike on loan from the Lochaber Environmental Group (LEG ), she joined the HITRANS scheme and now has one on permanent loan.
View Case StudyTong Active Travel Breakfast
The Behaviour Change Officer for Comhairle nan Eilean Siar coordinated an Active Travel Breakfast at Tong Primary School (Lewis) on 12 September 2025 as part of efforts to encourage active travel among pupils and families. The initiative promoted walking, wheeling, and cycling to school through a “Park & Stride” activity, where participants met at Tong Church and walked together to the school before taking part in a healthy breakfast.
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HI-BIKE user, Jem, tells us how the on-street bike shire scheme in Inverness makes his commute easier, while highlighting the ways that cycle path infrastructure plays an important part in encouraging active journeys.
View Case StudyVolunteering Hebrides: The EMBARK Project
Based in Stornoway, the EMBARK project helps people across the community to access bikes and dismantles barriers to active travel, including through their Children’s Cycle Library.
View Case StudyACT ReCycle Community Bike Scheme
The reCycle Community Bicycle Scheme, managed by the Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust, serves as a vital intervention in the Argyll and Bute rural transport landscape. By partnering with LiveArgyll, the scheme specifically targets the financial and logistical barriers that prevent schoolaged children (and their families) from owning, using, or maintaining a bicycle.
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