HCT Group
HCT Group (‘HCT’) was originally set up in 1982 as Hackney Community Transport by a number of community groups in Hackney, a Borough that has a historically low rate of car ownership. Now in its 25th year, HCT employs around 450 people at seven sites in London and West Yorkshire and has a current turnover in the region of £17m.
HCT runs a variety of innovative transport services from several sites around the capital. The commercial subsidiaries CT Plus and CT Plus (Yorkshire) run special needs education transport services in Waltham Forest, day centre transport services in Kensington and Chelsea, four mainstream London red bus routes for Transport for London (153, 388, 394 and W13) and school bus services in West Yorkshire. Its community transport services include the award-winning Scootability scheme, door-to-door and low cost minibus hire services aimed at local community groups in a number of London boroughs HCT is in the process of merging its operations with those of Lambeth and Southwark Community Transport. The organisation is also an important provider of a range of transport-related learning services from its Hackney headquarters. These are delivered in partnership with Job Centre Plus and the Learning and Skills Council, and are targeted at raising public transport accessibility and local employability levels.
London Rebuilding Society has made two loans to HCT Group. The first in 2002 to CT Plus, and now repaid, was to finance the investment in driver training prior to starting two of the mainstream bus route contracts. The second, from the LDA/ERDF Social Enterprise Loan Fund in 2005, was for new office accommodation at the Ash Grove premises.
Contact details
T: 020 7275 2400
E: info@hctgroup.org
W: http://www.hctgroup.org/
Headquarters address:
HCT Group
Ash Grove Bus Depot
Mare Street
London
E8 4RH