Documents available in this section:

1. Bike Club Start-Up Guide
2. Bike Club grant application forms
3. CTC ‘Safety in Numbers’ report

Bike Club Start-Up Guide

The Bike Club Start-Up Guide is full of details for anyone interested in applying to become part of Bike Club. It includes information on:

• The benefits of cycling for children and young people
• The background behind Bike Club
• Example Bike Club activities
• How Bike Club can work in youth club or extended services settings

Either browse the Bike Club Start-Up Guide below, download the Bike Club Start-Up Guide (1.6MB PDF) or, if you prefer, email us to request a printed Bike Club Start-Up Guide by post.

Bike Club grant application forms

If you’re in one of the areas where Bike Club has started working, you may want to apply for funding and support in order to set up a Bike Club activity for children or young people. The first thing we’d recommend is to contact the Bike Club development officer for your nearest town. He or she will help you to make an application.

You will need these documents:

For England:

Bike Club Grant Application Guidelines – England

Bike Club Application Form – England

Bike Club Grant Terms and Conditions – England

For Scotland:

Bike Club Grant Application Guidelines – Scotland

Bike Club Application Form – Scotland

Bike Club Grant Terms and Conditions – Scotland

For Wales:

Bike Club Grant Application Guidelines – Wales

Bike Club Application Form – Wales

Bike Club Terms and Conditions – Wales

Bike Club Membership

Regardless of the area you in, you may be able to become part of the Bike Club network and access a series of free support from the Bike Club Consortium and local officers if applicable. Examples of such support can include:

• free registration for the Youth Achievement Awards
• training and young people’s YAA booklets for your first Bike Club year
• free CTC membership, including group insurance
• support from Bike Club officers and consortium partners
• access to Bike Club small grant application procedure
• publicity and promotion for organisation
• brokering partnerships, shared resources with other professionals, groups or clubs that may benefit your project
• identification and access to relevant training
• sourcing and training volunteers
• contacts with registered/qualified cycling professionals
• support designing your club – consultation, format, ideas, examples

The first thing we’d recommend is to contact the Bike Club development officer for your nearest town or the Bike Club head office. Once you have had a dicussion with a team member, complete the Bike Club Group Application Form to join the network of clubs growing across the UK.

Bike Club Membership Form – England

Bike Club Membership Form – Scotland

Bike Club Membership Form Wales

Safety in Numbers

Our colleagues at CTC have been researching the way that cycling actually becomes safer when more of us join in. There are three main reasons that increased cycling leads to increased safety:

• Drivers grow more aware of cyclists and become better at anticipating their behaviour.

• Drivers are also more likely to be cyclists themselves, which means that they are more likely to understand how their driving may affect other road users.

• More people cycling leads to greater political will to improve conditions for cyclists.

If you’d like to know more, CTC have produced a great report called ‘Safety In Numbers’,  explaining the whole idea. Use the controls at the top of the document to move between pages, to zoom in or to view the report full-size.

Alternatively, you can download Safety in Numbers as a 4MB PDF.