Public Funding for Fernhay Limited

This project enables the UK to build back better during Covid-19 recovery by responding in a sustainable way to the dramatic change in the way that people now shop and the huge increase in eCommerce. A key deliverable of the project is the City Hub. This will facilitate the bulk movement of goods into cities for distribution via a fleet of cycle and walking equipment direct to the customer door. By securing this mass shift to low carbon transport and away from vans, last mile deliveries will never be the same again.

The objective of this project is to provide third party logistics companies with van free last mile technology that is safe to operate in a Covid-19 environment. The project will deliver a mix of new hardware, adaptations to existing hardware and business processes that respond to the need for social distancing. The opportunities for trial and roll out of this innovation, exist immediately post project completion, making this a real and deliverable Innovate UK project by the end of 2020, in this time of global disruption. Our primary partner and lead customer has maintained a keen interest in progress with the project and wishes to take the resultant prototype hardware through to operational trial from its depot based in Bury St Edmunds, Cambridgeshire.