📋About
Level 1&2 cycle training for children in primary schools (310,367 children, 10,074 schools, England excluding London); Get Cycling in Schools balance and pedal cycle training for younger children by school staff; Level 3 on-road cycling; Bikeability Plus for adults in London (7,415 places); Holiday Activities and Food Programme Bikeability (4,769 places, £80,508 funding, 18 local authorities); SEND-dedicated funding and mandatory SEND instructor training (1,500+ instructors trained); Fleet cycle provision to 52 grant recipients (1,024 cycles, estimated 16,000 uses); Cycle to School Week (with Sustrans, 2,300+ pledges); Celebration of Bikeability awards; Bikeability Club newsletter (6,643 subscribers); Immersive Reality research project with Brunel University; Football Project (coaching coaches as cycle instructors, Port Vale pilot); Digitisation project for parent/child direct engagement; annual conference (Birmingham, 200+ delegates)
Custom geography from upload: England-wide (all regions plus London)
📊Key Metrics
560,471 total Bikeability places booked including London; 310,367 Level 1&2 children trained in 10,074 schools (55% of eligible Year 5/6 children in England); 18,920 Get Cycling in Schools places across 393 schools with 685 staff trained
Key Metric 1
£50 million record funding secured from Active Travel England (April 2023–March 2025); 1,024 fleet cycles provided to grant recipients; 4,769 HAF-funded places; £79,725 SEND funding spent; 1,500+ instructors completed SEND training
Key Metric 2
67% of primary schools in England (excluding London) received Bikeability training; 2,300+ Cycle to School Week pledges; 200 delegates at annual conference; 23 staff; £19,901,856 funding allocated across regions
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
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Get Cycling in Schools saved 4,750 hours of instructor time — freeing instructors for Level 2 delivery; Devon County Council gifted a bike to the 100,000th child to complete Bikeability training; Footballer Bukayo Saka named Children's Cycling Champion for Cycle to School Week
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£50m record Active Travel England grant unlocking record delivery numbers; Immersive Reality project showcased at APPGCW at House of Commons; Football Project launched at Port Vale — youngest-ever instructor course with average age 17
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SEND delivery 8% of total — below 15.9% prevalence of SEND among English schoolchildren, driving dedicated funding and mandatory training; Minority ethnic children 20% of Bikeability participants vs 36% of schoolchildren — targeted content created to close gap
