Active8
Active8 – Transforming Workplace Travel
Eight ways to travel better together.
Build a healthier, more connected future for your workplace and your community.
What is Active8?
Active8 is Lightfoot’s workplace programme designed to shift the way Queenstown Lakes organisations travel.
It’s about reducing car dependence, improving employee wellbeing, cutting carbon emissions, and strengthening connection to our stunning rohe.
Lightfoot works alongside your team to build a customised commuter travel plan that’s practical, motivating, and built to last. You’ll receive a tailored plan that includes a comprehensive breakdown of your employees current travel patterns, their travel preferences - and most importantly, insight into the emissions generated by commuter travel. The data provides an important baseline to guide the shifts needed to keep the Queenstown Lakes moving.
Urutaunga
(adaptability)
Hauora
(wellbeing)
Tiakitanga
(guardianship)
Grounded in the principles of Urutaunga (adaptability), Hauora (wellbeing), and Tiakitanga (guardianship), Active8 helps businesses lead the change toward healthier, more sustainable commuting habits.
How Active8 Works
The programme unfolds in three clear stages:
Action 1: What? Why? How?
Establish a context for change, gather data, define outcomes & targets, and co-construct your Active8 Plan.
Action 2: Act & Implement
Roll out your workplace travel plan, supported by Lightfoot facilitators, and begin the shift.
Action 3: Evaluate
Review your progress after 8 weeks and refine actions to keep momentum strong.
We stay close throughout the journey, providing support, resources, and advice—because real change doesn’t happen overnight.
Guaranteed Ride Home
One of the biggest barriers to active commuting is the what ifs.
What if I need to get home fast?
What if there’s an emergency with family or friends?
The Guaranteed Ride Home Scheme provides your employees with the confidence to try new travel modes, knowing they have backup when they need it.
Lightfoot resources the GRH as part of Active8, and includes access to emergency taxi rides if required. With the safety net in place, employees are 65% more likely to experiment with active travel options.
The process is simple and managed within the workplace, so that immediate emergency transport can be accessed when it’s needed.
For more information on how the Guaranteed Ride Home programme works, download a copy of the PDF.
Active8 Online Seminar Series
To support your organisation’s journey, we offer a series of 30 minute-online seminars that break the programme into simple, practical steps.
Throughout the eight-week Active8 programme, Lightfoot provides several time slots to ensure the online sessions work for your busy schedule.
You’ll be working with the Active8 facilitators, alongside peers from other workplaces - will position you for success in launching and maximising the programme with your own team.
Kickstart Active8
Launch your workplace Active8 journey with confidence—contracts, GRH, rollout and all.
All In – Building the Crew
Learn how to rally your team, build champions, and embed Active8 into workplace culture.
Count It Right
Master the data collection process to unlock insights that drive real behaviour change.
From Data to Action
Turn your survey results into bold targets and real-world workplace shifts.
Shift Happens
Spark movement in your team—motivate and support your staff to trial active travel modes.
Ready to Active8 your workplace?
Let’s work together to create a better way to move - for your people, your business, and the future of the Queenstown Lakes.
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