Terri Hignett (second from right) from Yellow Buses presented a cheque to Bournemouth Sea Cadets and Royal Marine Cadets. Officer in Command, Glyn Bayliss is in the centre at the rear. It is part of the Yellow Buses/Daily Echo Carbon Stoppers initiative.
Bournemouth Sea Cadets and Royal Marine Cadets received a boost to their funds thanks to Yellow Buses and the Daily Echo.
The bus company handed over £200 from its Carbon Stoppers initiative that is run jointly with the Echo and has handed out nearly £20,000 to charities and good causes since its launch in 2008.
Each week the Yellow Buses holds a ‘Thank You Thursday’ when every trip taken by passengers on the day contributes to a separately administered Community Chest.
The cadets, who are based at King’s Park in the Phoebe Centre, are raising money for various things including a new mini bus.
Glyn Bayliss, Officer in Command, said: “We aim to develop youngsters using the ethos and morals of the navy.
“We aim to produce young leaders and man managers and all the training and qualifications the cadets undertake will count towards their wider education.
“Our cadets are aged between 10 and 18 and this money will be extremely useful as we are raising funds for some new transport.”
Terri Hignett from Yellow Buses said: “The cadets do great work in the community and raising funds for others but they have a few projects themselves.
“Hopefully this donation will help them achieve their targets.”
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About Yellow Buses:
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 430. It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
RATP Dev
RATP Dev is a RATP group subsidiary set up in 2002 to export the Group’s operation and maintenance knowhow outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 15 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, the USA and Brazil). In 2015 RATP Dev generated revenue of more than 1.1 billion euros.
RATP group
With 14 million passengers every day worldwide, RATP group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. The multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region, with its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express network (RER) lines, seven tramway lines, 350 bus lines and shuttle services catering to the region’s two international airports, is the largest of its kind 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 transport mode (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility such as passenger information, electronic ticketing, pricing and customer marketing. The automation of Paris metro’s Line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012, is a world first and once again has demonstrated the ability of RATP group to complete particularly complex projects.
RATP group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 worldwide and in 2015 generated revenue of 5,556 million euros.
