Bike Club resources
Documents available in this section:
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:
Bike Club Grant Application Guidelines
Bike Club Grant Application – print version
Bike Club Grant Application – email version
Bike Club Grant Terms and Conditions
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.
