Bromley Cyclists facilitated a network of children’s cycling clubs. The Bromley Go-Ride Project makes organised cycling accessible for all borough children during their school years, providing sustained support to continue riding for leisure, transport, and sport. The project also helps children have fun, gain personal confidence and become positive role models for their parents to take up cycling again for leisure and transport. The project includes a wide variety of different types of activity to keep riders engaged with the clubs, whose good reputation has increased and enquiries are pouring in. The project’s vision is that the school venues become centres of excellence for cycling.

The aims of the ‘Back on Your Bike with Kids’ project were to re-engage people that had stopped cycling when having a family or who wanted to try cycling with young children. The scheme loaned equipment ranging from child seats to trailers to people, and assigned them a mentor who gave confidence-building cycle training and provided help and support on route advice, storage and general cycling information. A wide spectrum of people took part, from lapsed cyclists to people who didn’t own a bike. A number of dedicated family social rides were run to show people how easy it was to cycle around the borough, and this was used to recruit new people to the project as well as bring together the diverse range of people already on the project.