The Bikeability Trust - Annual Report 2018

www.bikeabilitytrust.org www.bikeability.org.uk Operations Since September 2018, the operations team has delivered the following Bikeability programme management core services under the Department for Transport grant agreement. In the first three months of this agreement (September to November 2018) the following were delivered: • Bikeability grant payments of £12 million to 170 grant recipients each year (£1,331,038.70 paid to 39 grant-recipients in this period) • Bikeability award materials (certificates, badges, handbooks) distributed to c. 350,000 trainees per year (5440 packs distributed to registered Bikeability schemes in this period) • Bikeability scheme registrations , currently 338 active registered schemes • Bikeability instructor registrations , currently 2531 active registered instructors (all active instructors updating their database record in this period) • Bikeability email accounts and helpline (2671 emails processed in 4 email accounts, and 414 helpline phone calls answered in this period) • Bikeability quality assurance , 40 external assurance visits per year year (14 external assurance visits confirmed and completed during this period). Development The three main achievements in 2018 were: • Convening the Approved Driving Instructor cycle awareness pilot working group for the DfT’s Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (September 2018). • Publishing the National Standard for cycle training on the DfT’s Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency website (October 2018). • Getting the 1st4Sport instructor qualification regulated by Ofqual and placed in the Regulated Qualifications Framework (November 2018). During 2018 the development team delivered a raft of Bikeability development projects for the Department, first under contract in partnership with SDG, and from September under the grant agreement. The Bikeability Sounding Board, comprising 15 Bikeability providers and beneficiaries, advised the Trust on two development projects throughout 2018: the National Standard for cycle training (the National Standard) review, and instructor training reform. In December 2018, the Bikeability Effectiveness Advisory Group was appointed to replace the Sounding Board and advise the Trust on Bikeability standards, quality and impact. The Advisory Group will advise the Trust on delivery of the following development projects during 2019: • The development of Bikeability delivery guidance to accompany the updated National Standard was published in October 2018 • The development of two 1st4Sport instructor qualifications regulated by Ofqual and the recognition of Bikeability providers wishing to deliver the new qualifications from 2019 • The development of cycle awareness learning resources for Approved Driving Instructors (ADIs) to help them teach learner drivers to share roads with cycle riders • The development of an integrated relational database to make better use of our existing and forthcoming data collections, improve the efficiency of our operations, and provide better insight into the effectiveness of Bikeability delivery • Establishing an Innovation Fund to invest additional funds accrued through commercial partnerships and charity cost savings to strengthen Bikeability delivery effectiveness and inform grant-making policies from 2020 • Improving the Bikeability quality assurance system (comprising scheme registration and renewal, instructor training, registration and continuing development, Bikeability delivery monitoring and grant payments, and internal and external quality assurance) for launch in 2019 • Taking forward development projects announced in the Department’s Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) safety review action plan published in November 2018 Financial Review Our financial results are carefully monitored by the Trust’s Finance and Audit Committee on a quarterly basis. As the Trust assumed responsibility for the delivery of the Bikeability grant a key area of focus is the safeguarding of public money and ensuring value for money. The committee pays particular attention to cost control across all areas of the Trust’s activities, and close monitoring of any providers that might fail to deliver their allocated grant-funded Bikeability places to the required standard. Based on figures given are taken from the financial statements for the year ended 2018, the Trust has made a surplus of income over expenditure of £142,711. This is the result of a donation and a small surplus from the sale of award materials. The entirety of the surplus is to be transferred to reserves in order to ensure the going concern of the Trust in accordance with our reserves policy. The trustees have the objective of maintaining sufficient reserves to offset any liabilities that should be incurred in the event that the charity would need to be wound up. No specific target has as yet been set given that the Trust is still growing and our obligations going forward will be changing over the next twelve months. Current reserves are £142,711 which the trustees believe are sufficient to cover our current liabilities. After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the CIO has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. 14 15