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Cycling club

Suitable for primary and secondary schools.

Overview

Education phase

Early years Key stage 2 Key stage 3 Key stage 4 Key stage 5 Key stage 1

Category of activity

Travel

Types of activity

Cycling

How it helps

  • Develops cycling/scooting skills
  • Builds on road using skills
  • Gateway to other cycling initiatives

About the activity

Cycling club

Cycling clubs bring together those who already cycle to school, as well as offering an incentive to get others to start using their bikes. A cycling club is an opportunity to involve your whole school and its wider community in active, healthy activities and trips. 

Your club may also benefit from the Pool scooter and cycle initiative.

Running the activity

Your club can bring together cycling enthusiasts new and old to organise games, races and cycle trips, take part in cycle training and maintenance sessions, improve the school’s cycling facilities, and more.

You can run your cycle club for a full term or over the whole academic year. The spring/summer term is ideal thanks to lighter evenings.

How to evidence your activity

  • Record the feedback from your pupils. Note how they have got involved with the club and how this has helped you meet your targets
  • Add your story in "my activities". Evidence your activity with photos, letters, emails - anything that shows your hard work!

Activity steps

Step 1

Get ready. Read through the TfL Cycle Club toolkit for help with getting your club started and ideas for how to make it a success

Step 2

Plan. Get a team of enthusiastic pupils, staff and parents/carers together to start planning activities, routes and training sessions

Step 3

Launch the club - Promote the new club to the whole school community in assemblies, the school newsletter and on the website

Step 4

Safety first. Make sure you have parental permission for each individual to be involved and have completed any risk assessments

Step 5

Check for success. Ask club members for feedback. How do they find the club's activities? Do they cycle more as a result? What could you do to get more pupils involved?

Step 6

Tell your story! Upload your evidence to "my activities"