Bikeability Trust Annual Review 2019

Our Activities in 2019 Overview 2018 was a year of setting up the Trust – the necessary administrative, financial and legal structures as well as recruiting staff and trustees. 2019 has been a year of taking forward our programmes – Development, Operations, Partnerships and Communications work to build a solid platform for the Bikeability Trust. We have been strengthening partnerships, communicating with new audiences, and working with the Bikeability industry to take forward priority actions. Partnerships The Bikeability Trust has three partnership objectives: • To secure financial partners to enable additional Bikeability Plus delivery places, as well as core Bikeability if necessary. • To work with other key partners to provide in-kind support for the overall Bikeability programme. • To work with PR partners to continue to raise profile of Bikeability with schools and parents. We are grateful to Halfords for their sponsorship of the Bikeability programme since June 2018. This partnership reached its conclusion in December 2019. The partnership allowed the creation of the online Bikeability Club, and also contributed to the ‘Innovation fund’ allowing Bikeability providers to bid for extra funding as a means to provide training and equipment to make Bikeability more inclusive. Halfords also sponsored the Bikeability awards for the May 2019 conference, providing four children nominated for ‘Trainee of the year’ each with a new bike and accessories. This year we have also partnered with three organisations from Hungary, Romania and Slovenia with the aim of providing advice based on our Bikeability experience in the UK. The Erasmus exchange project aims to develop online resources for 10-13 years old pupils; and a ‘train the trainer’ course for teachers. The long-term goal of the project is to work at a local, regional and national level to support the implementation of a national cycle training programmes. 12 www.bikeabilitytrust.org