Bike Links
Bike Links helps to develop cycling based community projects, some in socially excluded communities. Join the Bike Links Network and a variety of subsidised cycling-related training courses are available to represented groups, e.g. Bike Mech, Safe Cycle Assessment, and Cycle Re-cycling. Programmes can be adapted to suit the needs of the group and participants can learn real life skills and can gain qualifications.
Certificates are awarded and courses provide a welcome opportunity to train in cycling related skills. A small grants pot is available and gifts of equipment are made to qualifying groups.
Ashden Trust Cycling Proposal - Cycle Community Directory
A successful initiative was developed through the productive partnership between the Ashden Trust and Cycling Projects, this initiative both recognised the importance of social inclusion and complete engagement for all members of the community through the mode of cycling.
The Bike Links initiative came to be recognised as a credible information portal that could support and develop existing and potential projects for the health and well-being of community members.
Bike Links embraced a wide variety of schemes; from community cycle recycle schemes to cycle skills and cycle loan programs, all with one clear aim to include all.
Bike Links helped with advice and knowledge based practice and at times Bike Links delivered cycle sessions and quality training programs to act as the lever for regular delivery patterns. Such roles allowed for Cycling Projects to assess the “community climate” As an organisation it has been able to establish what it was that the community members wanted and how the sustainable options for such schemes could be improved.
Cycling Projects has an ethos of installing information, knowledge and skills based programs to ensure that community members are able to take forward their schemes.
