Burnley Bus Company

The Burnley Bus Company is a bus operator running services in the boroughs of Burnley and Pendle, and into the surrounding areas including Accrington, Keighley and Manchester. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Blazefield.
History.
The Burnley, Colne & Nelson Joint Transport Committee was established in 1933 to merge the three municipal tramway and bus operations of those towns. The tramway network was progressively being abandoned with the last closing in May 1935. In 1974 as part of the local government reorganisation Colne and Nelson boroughs were amalgamated to form Pendle and thus the transport operation became the Burnley & Pendle Joint Transport Committee.
To comply with the Transport Act 1985, in 1986 the assets were transferred to a new legal entity and the operation rebranded Burnley & Pendle Transport Company. Deregulation opened Burnley & Pendle's routes to competition from other operators, with Blackburn Transport, Tyrer Tours and Victoria Coaches establishing competing services. To stave off the competition five AEC Routemasters were purchased with each named after a character from the television series "EastEnders". Deregulation also saw many Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive services contracted out. Burnley & Pendle successfully tendered a number of routes with their sphere of operation extending to Blackburn, Bury, Manchester, Preston, Rawtenstall, Rochdale and Skipton.
In April 1996 Pendle Council sold its share to Stagecoach North West. Burnley Council was livid, and stated strongly it would never sell its share. Stagecoach put up a multi-million pound investment plan for Burnley and Pendle, but Burnley Council could not meet its share unless it cut other council services. In March 1997 it reversed its policy and sold out to Stagecoach.

Chat Garcia Ramilo

Chat Garcia Ramilo (born 1960, Philippines) is a feminist activist. She has over twenty years experience in different activities with Information and communications technology (ICT). Since April 2017, she leads the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). She is the Board Chair of the Center for Migrant Advocacy in the Philippines and a Board Member of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
Career.
Garcia Ramilo is the Board Chair of the Center for Migrant Advocacy in the Philippines. She has served as a gender expert for various ICT for development initiatives. and institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women.
Chat Garcia Ramilo became the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications after serving as manager of its Communications Women's Rights Programme for seven years. She manages gender evaluation methodologies and she co-authored Gender Evaluation Methodologies for Internet and ICTs (GEM), which has been used by organisations in over 25 countries.
She is a co-founder of the Take Back the Tech! campaign, which addresses digital gender violence through technology.