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Could you be a Travel Champion?

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The Travelling with Confidence project is coming to Hexham!

We’re looking for two Travel Champions with a learning disability to help us roll out the Travelling with Confidence scheme in the area.

Hours: 4.5 hours a week. This is fixed for three months but a three-month extension may be possible.

Salary: You will be paid £248.23 per month.

Travel Champions will be employed on a three-month contract with the possibility of a three-month extension.

Travel Champions will work together to raise awareness about our Travel with Confidence project. This will involve:

  • Planning and delivering workshops
  • Visiting community groups and other organisations
  • Plan and carry our transport Quality Checks in your local area. This will involve traveling on different types of transport to see how accessible and welcoming they are.
  • Share what you find out with transport providers – these are people who run the buses, metros and trains.
  • Talk to people with learning disabilities who do our Travel Training to find out what they think about the training.

You will be one of a team of three people with learning disabilities.

You will get support to do your job from a Project Support Worker.

You will get training to do your job.

We will pay for travel that you do as part of your job.

Read the Travelling with Confidence Travel Champion job description.

 

To apply, please email Lucy Simper: lucys@adapt-tynedale.org.uk, with some information about yourself and your experience of using public transport.

The closing date for applications is 30 June 2026.

If you have a question about this role please call Lucy on 07944 993826.

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Edinburgh hits the road with the Travelling with Confidence course

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Here our Travelling with Confidence Project Coordinator Frank, tells us about a recent trip to Edinburgh for the travel trainers and learners.

 

November 22, 2025

Two of the Learners Martha and Justine who have been doing the Travelling with Confidence course went on a supported journey. They were supported by two of our Travel Champions, Leanne and Andrew, who also came to Edinburgh.

Martha and I and Suzanne all boarded the train at Alnmouth train station and already on the Train was Justine the Learner and the two Travel Champions, Andrew and Leanne.

The Train was very busy on the way up to Edinburgh as it was the first week of the Christmas market.

Once we all arrived at Edinburgh Waverly train station as a group, we all walked to Princess Street Gardens this was where the Christmas market was, we all had a good look around the Market and some of the Learners and Champions brought some Christmas tree decorations we stayed at the market for around an hour and a half.

The Learners Martha and Justine then used Google Maps to take the group to the Roxy Lane Bowling Alley where myself, the Project Worker and one of the Champions, Andrew, and one of the Learners, Martha, had one game of bowling.

Once we had finished at the bowling alley, we then walked from the bowling alley to Hannover Street. The Learners Martha and Justine used Google Maps again to get us to the bus stop. It was a two-minute walk from the bowling alley to the bus stop.

We then took the bus from Hannover Street to Victoria Street and we walked as a group to the Royal Mile. We went for some lunch at Landy’s Fish and Chip Shop. One of the Travel Champions after lunch went to get some gifts, so we went to some of the gift shops on the Royal Mile and I (Frank) went to get some fudge at the fudge kitchen on the Royal Mile.

Below is a picture of one of the Learners, Martha, with her Travel Champion and Suzanne outside Mary Kings Close in Edinburgh.

Once we had had some time on the Royal Mile, we then went back to the market via the North Bridge. Leanne, the Travel Champion and Justine, the Learner used Google Maps to get us back to the Edinburgh market so Leanne could get a German hot dog.

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