Transport

This award is for campaigners working anywhere in the UK to improve access at a local level or creating alternative solutions to meet the transport challenges of our time.

This award is sponsored by Dr. Simon Norton. Simon is a mathematician at Cambridge University with a particular interest in sustainable transport. He is coordinator of the Cambridge & West Suffolk branch of the Campaign for Better Transport (f. Transport 2000), the national environmental transport campaign.

In past years we have supported a wide range of campaigners in this category, from Alison Miller who started her own campaign to help bereaved families cope with the aftermath of family members killed in accidents abroad, to Barbara McCaffrey who is campaigning for accessible transport in Cumbria. And 2008 winner Dan Glass of Plane Stupid has been campaigning against airport expansion, and raising awareness of the environmental issues related to air travel with local communities.