Brake, the road safety charity, is calling for organisations to prepare for Road Safety Week, which takes place 15-21 November, 2021.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s theme is \u201cRoad Safety Heroes\u201d to pay tribute to the work of road safety campaigners, professionals, individuals and organisations across the country, providing a platform to speak up about how we can all play a part in making journeys safer for everyone.<\/p>\n
To help shine a light on the huge variety of road safety champions, Brake is theming each day to focus engagement, PR and social media activity to celebrate specific groups of heroes:<\/p>\n
Monday 15 November:\u00a0Road safety campaigners and charities<\/p>\n
Tuesday 16 November:\u00a0Children, families, youth and schools<\/p>\n
Wednesday 17 November:\u00a0Road safety professionals<\/p>\n
Thursday 18 November:\u00a0Emergency services and road victim services<\/p>\n
Friday 19 November:\u00a0Fleets, businesses and employers, Safe Tee Day<\/p>\n
Saturday 20 November:\u00a0Sustainability heroes<\/p>\n
Sunday 21 November:\u00a0Marking the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2021<\/p>\n
\u201cRoad Safety Week is the UK’s biggest road safety event and, each year, millions of people around the UK get involved to take action for safer roads,\u201d said Jason Wakeford, Head of Campaigns at Brake.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoad Safety Week inspires thousands of schools, organisations and communities to shout out for our right to make safe and healthy journeys every day. It also provides a great opportunity for anyone working in road safety to get more people involved with their work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year we are encouraging everyone to celebrate their road safety heroes during the week (15-21 November) by downloading our\u00a0new PR and social media toolkit<\/a>\u00a0for loads of ideas for getting involved.\u201d<\/p>\n To sign up for Road Safety Week, please visit:\u00a0www.brake.org.uk\/road-safety-week<\/a>.<\/p>\n Road Safety Week 2021 is organised by Brake and sponsored by\u00a0Arval<\/a>,\u00a0DHL<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Openreach<\/a>. It supports the Department for Transport’s\u00a0Think!<\/a>\u00a0campaign.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brake, the road safety charity, is calling for organisations to prepare for Road Safety Week, which takes place 15-21 November, 2021. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cRoad Safety Heroes\u201d to pay tribute to the work of road safety campaigners, professionals, individuals and organisations across the country, providing a platform to speak up about how we can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":10988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-risk-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}