This London museum helps staff choose flight-free holiday travel
We’re excited to announce that the Brunel Museum has just joined Climate Perks - the employee benefit scheme that empowers staff to choose flight-free holidays by offering paid ‘journey days’ for slow travel.
Flying is the fastest growing cause of greenhouse gases globally. And with no zero-carbon planes waiting in the wings, we need to encourage people across the UK and beyond to cut down on flights.
While the environmental benefits of travelling by train, ferry or coach are huge, it does generally take a bit longer than taking a plane. And that’s what Climate Perks is all about. Extra days out of the office to travel sustainably mean employees can make a choice that’s better for our planet without missing out on their hard-earned annual leave.
Last week the Brunel Museum became the first museum to introduce the policy. Their staff are now entitled to a minimum of two paid “journey days” on top of their annual leave so they are able to take low carbon transport options over flights.
Having a museum sign up for Climate Perks is brilliant. Centres for learning and culture, like Brunel Museum, are invaluable places for initiatives like this to start gaining prominence. Here’s to more museums following suit!
“Our museum tells the story of how Marc Brunel devised and created the first tunnel under a river anywhere in the world. It also laid the blueprint for all future tunnelling projects, including the Channel Tunnel which today is among the best low carbon way of travelling internationally from Britain. So it feels appropriate that we’re the first museum to sign up to this really important scheme. We’re so pleased to be able to support our employees to make more sustainable travel choices.”
Image credit: Marathon, at Geograph under Creative Commons license.
The Brunel Museum is just one of many that have signed up to the scheme. Since launching, Climate Perks has seen over 60 organisations promise to give their employees at least two travel days. These include the likes of the environmental NGO Friends of the Earth, the ferry service Direct Ferries and the law firm Bates Wells.
Interested in getting your workplace onboard? Find out more and get in touch at www.climateperks.com.