Travel training

Travel training encourages disabled Londoners to travel independently.

There are some local travel training schemes in many of the London boroughs.

Barnet

Community Space

Description of service: Offer independent travel training service for people aged 18 and over with learning difficulties.
Address: The Space, 36 Knightswood Close, HA8 8FR
Contact: David Yates
Mobile: 07951 135 573
Email: david.yates@barnet.gov.uk

Going Places (Barnet Mencap)

Description of service: Going Places is a project for adults with disabilities over the age of 18 to become volunteer travel assistants for other adults with learning disabilities. Training will be covered across the borough of Barnet.
Address: 35 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London, N3 1RT
Contact: Laura Davitt or Shelley Gibbons
Tel: 020 8349 3842
Email: laura.davitt@barnetmencap.org.uk

Bexley

TES Bexley

Description of service: Provides travel educational services for pupils who are travellers. Provides tuition, advice and materials for pupils and families. Also there is a travel assistance scheme for 16-18 year olds, people on income support, jobseekers allowance, child tax credit or state pension.
Address: Bexley Council, Civic Offices, Broadway, Bexleyheath, DA6 7LB

Brent

Brent Travel Training

Description of service: Provides independent travel training advice.
Address: Brent Learning Disability Partnership, Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, HA9 9HD
Contact: James Diamond
Tel: 020 8963 0531

Bromley

Bromley Council

Description of service: Offer independent travel training to children attending local SEN school who are currently in receipt of transport services from Bromley Council.
Address: Adult and Community Services, Civic Centre, 3rd Floor Stockwell Building, BR1 3UH
Contact: Gemma Wodehouse
Tel: 020 8461 7722
Email: gemma.wodehouse@bromley.gov.uk

Camden

Independent Travel Training and Travel Buddying Service

Description of service: Offer travel training and a travel buddy service to residents of Camden who are aged 10-19 and hold a statement of special educational needs.
Address: The Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1BD
Contact: Rosita Caspersz
Tel: 020 7974 4519
Email: rosita.caspersz@camden.gov.uk

The Children's Society Independent Travel Training and Travel Buddying Service

Description of service: Offers independent travel training advice.
Address: The Disability Advocacy Project, Unit 2, 51 Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6JQ
Contact: Lizzie Streeter
Tel: 020 7613 2886
Email: lizzie.streeter@childsoc.org.uk

Ealing

Ealing Mencap Travel Training Project

Description of service: Offer independent travel training to residents of the borough of Ealing with a physical or learning disability, aged 11-24 on a school or college route. We also provide a travel buddy service to residents of Ealing with a learning disability who need support to travel on a regular journey.
Address: 173a Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, London, W7 3TH
Tel: 020 8567 9185
Email: travel.training@ealingmencap.org.uk

Hackney

Hackney Learning Disabilities Service

Address: Learning Disabilities Service, 1 Hillman Street, London, E8 1DY
Tel: 020 8356 7200
Email: mailto:duty.worker@hackney.gov.uk

Hackney Learning Trust

Description of service: Provides a passenger assisted training scheme based on community transport for people on income support or claiming disability allowance.
Address: Hackney Technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London, E8 1GQ
Email: info@learningtrust.co.uk

Haringey

Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership

Description of service: Offer independent travel training advice to people with learning difficulties.
Address: Unit 5, St George's Estate, White Hart Lane, Wood Lane, London, N22 5QL
Tel: 020 8489 0000 or 020 8489 1384
Email: hldp@haringey.gov.uk

Harrow

Harrow Travel Training and Buddying Project

Description of service: Offer independent travel training advice to individuals in the London Borough of Harrow who use special needs transport, both adults and children.
Address: Alexandra Avenue Health and Social Care Centre, 275 Alexandra Avenue, South Harrow, Middlesex, HA2 9DX
Contact: Liz Drake
Tel: 020 8966 6369
Email: harrow@voiceability.org

Hillingdon

London Borough of Hillingdon

Address: Block B, 128 Harlington Road, Uxbridge Road, Middlesex, UB8 3EU

Islington

Samuel Rhodes School

Description of service: Offer advice to pupils aged 11-16 with learning difficulties, autism, behavioural problems
Address: Samuel Rhodes School, 11 Highbury New Park, London, N5 2EG
Contact: Fay Day
Tel: 020 7704 7490
Email: day.f1@srs.islington.sch.uk

Kingston-Upon-Thames

Getting There

Description of service: Provide independent travel training to people with physical disabilities.
Address: London Borough of Kingston, High Street, Kingston, KT1 1EU
Tel: 020 8455 4759

Lambeth

Without Walls

Description of service: Offer independent travel training to adults who have learning difficulties and are resident in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Address: Landmark Day Centre, 47 Tulse Hill, London, SW2 2TN
Contact: Mark Seviour
Tel: 020 7926 1802
Email: mseviour@lambeth.gov.uk

London wide

TfL Safety and Citizenship

Description of service: TfL Safety and Citizenship works with children all over London in primary and secondary schools. They conduct role plays to demonstrate safety on transport and outdoors and also work closely with the Travel Mentoring Team and Metropolitan Police. They are often given referrals from various organisations to help enable these referrals to become more knowledgeable and introduce the to independent travel
Address: Travel Information and Events, 39 Wellington Street, London, WC2 7BB
Tel: 020 7565 7303

TfL Travel Mentoring Service

Description of service: The TfL Travel Mentoring Service offers support to disabled Londoners who want to broaden their horizons and make use of the many mainstream accessible options now available. This service can offer you help in planning an accessible route and can provide a mentor to come along with you to help you gain confidence and become an independent traveller.
Address: Progress House, 5 Mandela Way, London, SE1 5SS
Tel: 020 3054 4361
Email: travelmentor@tfl.gov.uk
Web: www.tfl.gov.uk/travelmentoring

Merton

Independent Travel Training

Description of service: Offer training to young people with a learning disability who live in Merton to travel independently to school or college.
Address: The Wilson Hospital, Cranmer Road, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 4TP
Contact: Sara Gibbens
Mobile: 07582 232 225
Email: travel.trainer@swlondonmencap.nhs.uk

Southwark

Southwark Town Hall

Description of service: Southwark Council Road Safety Team trains staff at schools and other centres throughout Southwark to provide independent travel training. They also run a training bus on the second Wednesday of every month that is open to anyone of any age with any type of disability to practise travelling on buses.
Address: Peckham Road, Peckham, London, SE15 8UB
Contact: Vivienne Harris
Tel: 020 7525 5544
Email: vivienne.harris@southwark.gov.uk

Sutton

Travel Buddy Project

Description of service: Offer a travel buddy service for young people ages 13-18 resident in Sutton to build confidence and independent travel skills
Address: Sutton Mencap, 8 Stanley Park Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 0EU
Tel: 020 8647 8600
Email: melissa@suttonmencap.org.uk

Tower Hamlets

The Mobility Unit

Description of service: Provides independent travel training for people with disabilities, mainly teachers with learning disabilities
Address: The Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BG
Contact: Sharon Whiteman/Holly Parker
Tel: 020 7364 5419
Email: generalenquiries@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Waltham Forest

The Limes

Description of service: Work with young people with and without disabilities up to the age of 25, to develop and implement a support plan to teach independent travel skills. There is a charge for this service.
Address: The Limes Community and Children's Centre, William Morris Hall, 6 Somers Road, London, E17 6RX
Tel: 020 8509 8985
Email: admin@thelimes.org.uk

Wandsworth

Wandsworth Travelmate

Description of service: Provide independent travel training, mentoring and "buddying" to enable vulnerable people to access public transport as independently as possible. Travel Buddy is a service which provides support for people with Learning Disabilities to travel on public transport safely. They arrange accompanied travels with people to leisure and work venues in Wandsworth. The Travel Buddy scheme also employs buddies and uses volunteers who support people to use public transport.
Address: 229 Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, SW18 4DU
Contact: Natalie Bahrami
Tel: 020 8871 7779
Email: nbahrami@wandsworth.gov.uk