Partnership Working

Bikeability Near You

Your school may already have signed up to receive Bikeability sessions! Contact your school direct to find out if sessions are scheduled for this year. If not, or there’s something in particular you’d like to learn, search for Bikeability providers in your area.

Local Authority

Bikeability Scotland

Looking for Bikeability training in Scotland? Visit the Bikeability Scotland website.

A partnership working approach can bring many benefits to cycle training scheme providers and help ensure best value for use of your resources.

These include:

Integration with other policies, plans and projects
Shared costs of projects
Maximised funding potential
Improved understanding of partners’ powers, responsibilities and limitations
Benefits to other authorities

It is important to have pro-active links with a full range of professional and NGO bodies, local CTC groups or cycle clubs to ensure partnership working adds real value to your scheme.

There are more than 200 local CTC groups based in the UK. If you are not already working with them you can find their details by visiting www.ctc.org.uk or calling 0870 873 0060.

Depending on your organisation and location you may also wish to consider the following:

Local authorities
School travel plans
Promoting cycle training at local council meetings
Neighbourhood travel teams
TravelWise
Linking with companies with travel plans
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) as part of the active lifestyles programme/GPs cycling for health
Local cycle campaign groups
Universities and colleges (especially for new students in September)
Local Sustrans representative