Start-up guide

Aylesbury Leighton Linslade

Bike Club pathfinder areas

Bike Club will be comingsoon to Wales, Scotlandand Northern Ireland, andto other parts of England.Details will be available onthe Bike Club website.

York DarlingtonSouthportChester Lancaster BlackpoolBristolExeter WokingBrightonDerby Leicester SheffieldColchester SouthendCambridge

Bike Club start-up guide

Bike Club is an inspirational programme that aimsto build cycling into the daily lives of children, youngpeople and their families. The programme is centredon young people, basing everything it does on theirneeds and interests. Bike Clubs can give young peoplefreedom, independence, a way of travelling from A to B, improved health and well-being, adventure andlots of fun. The programme is designed to be safe andsustainable. It can be a means of engaging youngpeople and opening up new opportunities.Bike Club aims to include and involve a wide range ofpeople, reaching out to families and all members ofthe community. Bike Clubs will help parents to feel moreconfident about letting their children use their cycles forgetting to school, and for extended services and leisureactivities. Anyone can get involved. You can start a club fromscratch – you don’t need to be running a bike clubalready, or to be part of any other kind of group. Working in partnership is central to the success of BikeClub. We intend to complement and work with theexcellent existing cycling initiatives, such as Bikeability,Bike It, Cycling Champions, Go-Ride and other projectsthat aim to increase cycling among young people andtheir families.The Bike Club programme is managed by the BikeClub consortium. This consists of CTC Charitable Trust,ContinYou and UK Youth. These three organisations know how to reach children and young people, how to findout what they want, and how to provide activities thatare inclusive, attractive and fun.

What’s in this guide

What is Bike Club? 3 About the consortium partners 4 Who funds Bike Club? 5 Where are Bike Clubs being set up? 5The aims of Bike Club 6 Why encourage young people to cycle? 7Setting up a Bike Club 8Examples of activities 11Bike Club as part of extendedservices in schools 12Bike Club in youth work settings 13 Winning people over 14Next steps 17Get involved 17Resources 18