Business Plan 2021-2023

Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company has recently published it's Business Plan for 2021-2023.

The overall aim of the company is to help create the Friends of the Dales’ vision of a “Sustainable Future for the Dales” by working with partner organisations to support and develop sustainable transport into and around the Yorkshire Dales area.

Specifically, in the next three years we aim to:

• Grow passenger journeys on the weekend DalesBus network to at least 50,000 per year, filling the significant gaps in the public transport network which would otherwise be available
• Secure long-term funding to enable the reliance on short-term charitable donations and fundraising to be reduced to less than 20% of gross operating costs
• Continue to promote and help drive increased awareness and usage of the wider public transport network in the area
• Consider moving the DalesBus network to net zero carbon emissions by 2025, by using low emission vehicles combined with carbon offsetting arrangements (subject to funder support)