The Active Travel Cafe is a friendly, weekly, online forum for people to share and connect about all things active and sustainable transport.
We run 1700-18.15pm every Tuesday (with breaks around the main school holidays) and attract a variety of people from across the UK.
We always include discussion of latest news - including inviting people to share what's going on where they are - as well as one interesting guest speaker each week - with plenty of time for questions and chat.
The Active Travel Cafe is a community - those who come enjoy linking up with other like minds, sharing knowledge, insights, ideas and a sense of solidarity.
Sign up via the box at the bottom of the Home page for email updates, including our joining link.
There is a small organising group of volunteers, who always welcome help on making the space as useful and inclusive as possible for those who come.
If you wish to contact us - to suggest speakers, topics for discussion or or anything else - please email activetravelcafe{at}gmail.com.
If you are joining for the first time or wish to know more about our values for the space, please have a read of our House Rules.
Sign up via the box at the bottom of the Home page for email updates, including our joining link.
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Background
Our forum started life in April 2020 under the title Ideas With Beers - when a weekly transport-focused meet-up in a local pub in Manchester had to move online due to Covid 19.
The move to zoom enabled many more people to join in; and it provided a timely, unique, topical, online space for transport planners, campaigners, engineers, councillors, and anyone else interested - to keep track of what was going on as active travel moved into the spotlight!
Lockdown eased at the very end of 2021, and Ideas with Beers founder Brian Deegan, left to join Active Travel England - but by then the space had evolved to become an enjoyable weekly appointment for many, and so we resolved to keep things going and see how we got on.
By September 2022, the time was right to change the name to give it a clearer identity, and it was relaunched under its new guise, Active Travel Cafe.