Bike Club Leaders get set for 2012 11/01/2012

Bike Club Leaders in Edinburgh and East Lothian have been training to get ready to start up their new Bike Club activities in 2012.

Dads Work in East Lothian is a community project working with Dads.  They provide support groups, positive parenting classes, trips and outings for fathers and their children.  With support from Bike Club they will introduce cycling to the families they work with giving both dads and their children confidence to become more confident and competent cyclists.  In November we ran a Cycle Ride Leader course where some of the Dads volunteered to be trained as ride leaders.  This has equipped them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to take out their own children and other families on local rides in the Spring.

In North Edinburgh, Royston Wardieburn Community Centre have used Bike Club support to train up sessional workers and volunteers to deliver led trips, cycle maintenance and expeditions with their young people.  Two tutors from local Bike Club project MY Adventure worked with the staff and volunteers from RWCEC to train them up as Cycle Trainer Assistants and Cycle Ride Leaders. As part of the training the trainees took out a group of young people, supervised by MY Adventure staff, to give them hands on experience of taking groups out on led rides.  This will allow them to deliver Bikeability Scotland Level 1 and 2 to the young people they work with and be able to plan and lead their own local rides as part of their on going programme of activities.

Finally on 9^th November in Edinburgh  a number of Bike Club Leaders attened Youth Scotland’s Youth Achievement Award Induction training.  This will allow them to start delivering Youth Achievement Awards and Dynamic Youth Awards to the young people they work with.