Staff Travel Offers

The BROOKESkey is a personal travel account, exclusively only available to Oxford Brookes University students and staff. It offers discounted travel on local Oxford Bus Company buses and their airline coaches.

Visit our BROOKESkey webpage for more information.

Qualifying staff can purchase a bicycle (and accessories) tax-free. The amount is paid off monthly as a deduction from your gross salary. For full details of the scheme, please visit the MyLifestyle Hub benefits platform.

Staff on contracts of 12 months or longer are able to apply for an interest-free loan through the University in order to cover the cost of public transport season tickets. The maximum loan amount is £5000 for travel tickets, and £2000 for bicycles, with the cost repaid over 12 monthly salary deductions.

To apply for a loan, download and complete the Staff Loan Form. The form and costs of annual bus travel products can be found in the useful forms box at the top of the page. The form will need to be signed by yourself and your line manager. Completed forms can then be scanned and attached in an email to Transport Services.

Transport Services will contact the applicable bus company and University Payroll and notify you once the bus company has issued the pass.

You will be liable for any outstanding payments should you leave the University before finishing the repayments. If you wish to keep the ticket, the remaining payments will be deducted from your final salary payment. If you do not wish to keep the card, hand it in to the Transport Services team who will arrange a cancellation. A refund for the outstanding duration of the ticket may be issued, however, this would be at the discretion of the bus company who issued the ticket.

Transport Services will contact University Payroll, who will place the total amount in your bank account. You will then need to purchase the ticket and once purchased, you will need to forward the receipt (or scanned copy) to Transport Services.

As you will be purchasing the rail ticket or bicycle directly from the applicable company, you will be liable for any outstanding payments should you leave the University before finishing the repayments.

The University has agreed to a new scheme with Oxford Bus Company to provide a significant reduction for all Brookes staff wishing to buy a seasonal BROOKESbus travel pass. Under this scheme, colleagues who travel to the Headington Campus five days a week from the Seacourt or Thornhill Park & Rides will save approximately £1.50 a day after paying the standard £2 parking fee. The new offers available to all staff are:

• Academic year pass (September to August) = £122.50 (50% discount from normal price of £245)
• Calendar year annual pass (January to December) = £122.50 (50% discount from normal price of £245)
• Semester one pass (September to December) = £55.00 (50% discount from normal price of £110)
• Semester two pass (January to June) = £82.50 (50% discount from normal price of £165)

For further information and to apply for this benefit, please visit the BROOKESBus webpages.

Colleagues working less frequently on campus may also wish to take advantage of this seasonal BROOKESbus travel pass offer for work and personal travel. Depending on how often you work at Headington, you may also benefit from the new cheaper £4 daily parking and return combined ticket offer - or £5 for a car with two or more people - available across all of the city’s Park & Ride schemes.