• Boggart's brilliant bike club

    Partner: CTCMembers of the all-ability Saturday bike club

    Scheme: Community Cycling Champions

    Location: Manchester

    Since 2008, CTC have worked in partnership with North Manchester City Council and Boggart Hole Clough Community Action Trust Group to develop a unique and highly successful bike club.

    The club is aimed at people from a variety of backgrounds and with a range of physical abilities. Specially adapted bikes, provided by the Trust Group make the club inclusive, enabling people with physical disabilities to join in the fun. Volunteers and qualified cycle instructors teach the group cycling skills and organise games suitable for adults and children ensuring that everybody can take part in each activity.

    Billy Cauldwell travels 40 miles by train and bus every Saturday to support the club. He makes sure that every member of the club is made to feel welcome, enjoys themselves and gains new cycling skills. Billy says:

    “I’d like to thank CTC Cycle Champions project for giving me the opportunity to engage with a group of such fantastic, inspiring people.”

    The club provide a range of bikes - including unicycles, tandems and velo plus wheelchair bikes – and offer indoor and outdoor facilities so sessions can go ahead whatever the weather.

    Some club members bring their whole family along so they can have fun together at the same time as improving their health.

    Anne attends the club every week with her four daughters and helps to organise rides. She recently helped 24 people on a cycling trip in Southport:

    “The club has really helped to build my daughters’ confidence and it’s brilliant to be able to get so involved with it.”

    Joan Millership also never misses a session and brings along her grandsons to help them be more active. Joan is determined to improve her own fitness too and will give any type of bike a go! Her 12-year-old grandson, James, is actively involved with the club and enjoys assisting the volunteers in setting up games, preparing equipment and maintaining and adjusting bikes.

    Cycling Development Officer, Mark Gumbs says:

    “People like Joan keep the club going. She encourages all the other members and has taken on a motherly role. It’s great to see her fitness improving at the same time.”

    Result: The club has enabled families and individuals of all-abilities to join together and have fun at the same time as improving their health.

    For more information about the cycle club, please contact: Mark Gumbs - CTC Cycle Champions Officer on 0161-232-3102 or 07717725449. 


     


     

     

     

     


     


     





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