(l-r) Fiona Harwood from the Yellows, Steve Cuss and Dan Gosling from AFCB. The Number 29 is the Yellows’ AFC Bournemouth Bus which is decorated inside with all things Cherries-related.
AFC Bournemouth and Yellow Buses are hitting the road again and driving safety lessons into local schools.
Cherries Community Sport’s Trust is running the ‘Soccer Safety School’ that has reached more than 20 schools and hundreds of youngsters since its launch in January.
The initiative uses football to teach youngsters how to stay safe while playing, and it is looking for more schools to sign up.
Star midfielder Dan Gosling is the ‘player ambassador’ for the project and is visiting some of the schools himself.
Steve Cuss, the club’s Head of Community, has developed the programme that is proving a hit across the conurbation.
He said: “Together with Yellow Buses we have been bringing fun safety lessons to schools – and we are looking for new schools to join.
“The Safety Soccer School highlights the risks and dangers that children face when out playing.
“These involve road safety, which is something that Yellow Buses are experts in.
“We all want our children to be healthy and fit but we also want them to remain safe when they’re playing.”
Dan said: “I spent so much of my childhood out playing football it’s important that today’s children can enjoy the same experiences safely.
“I look forward to meeting more children as the initiative rolls forward.”
Fiona Harwood, from the Yellows, said: “Yellow Buses delivers thousands of passengers to each home game at the Vitality Stadium and we’re proud to be partners in this important community project.
“We also have the AFC Bournemouth Bus – Number 29 – which has a Cherries’ theme throughout the interior.”
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RATP Dev is the RATP Group subsidiary established in 2002 to export the group’s operation and maintenance know-how outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 14 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Brazil, India, China, South Korea and the Philippines). In 2015, RATP Dev is scheduled to generate revenue exceeding €1 billion.
About RATP Group:
With nearly 14 million daily passengers worldwide, RATP Group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. With its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express rail lines, seven tramway lines and 350 bus lines, the multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region is the largest in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP Group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the mode of transport (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility (including passenger information, remote ticketing, pricing and customer marketing). The automation of Paris metro line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012 as a world first, once again demonstrated the ability of RATP Group to implement particularly complex projects.
RATP Group exports its know-how all over the world; in engineering through Systra, its subsidiary jointly owned with SNCF, in operations and maintenance via its RATP Dev subsidiary and in innovative services to promote mobility through its IXXI subsidiary.
RATP Group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 employees worldwide and in 2013 generated revenue of €5.14 billion.
