Project Zone

The Project Zone includes details of all the Safe Routes Projects that Groundwork Hackney and Groundwork Hammersmith and Fulham have co-ordinated. You will also find some Project Ideas for Safe Routes education, which you may be able to try in your own school. Project Listing shows some examples of the improvements which have be made around the schools to make them better places.  If you are considering setting up a website project yourself, take a look at the Diary of an After School Clubber for some useful guidelines.
Hackney projects	West London projects
Background to Hackney Projects
At Groundwork Hackney we believe that the process is often as important as the product, facilitating community co-operation and communication, changing ideas and ways of thinking. If we are to change people’s ways of thinking we must also be aware of the language we use. Therefore throughout our work we are determined to think of streets rather than roads and we prefer to talk about collisions rather than accidents (when we are not quoting statistics compiled by others). Our aims are: to reduce the trend towards increased car usage facilitate an increase in sustainable transport use to increase the safety awareness of all road users to make the journey to school a more pleasant and less stressful experience.	By the end of this project we should have: delivered at least 5 physical-improvements across Hackney opened up forums for discussion and increased the acceptance of the inevitability of a move towards sustainable transport integrated the school journey into schools schemes of work and travel plans Our scheme is a pilot with a multi-façeted approach. There are five different project-areas involving many Hackney schools, an after-school club at Highwire, Shoreditch and a youth group.
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