Cycling and healthy living

On 19th November 2009 London Cycling Campaign published a case study of our Wheel Thing project. Please visit the LCC website where you can download the report. An excerpt is repoduced below.
http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1621

‘The Wheel Thing’

As an initiative in their new Bike4Life project, Wandsworth PCT joined with Pedal4Health on 7th March 2009 to create ‘The Wheel Thing’ project. Meant for parents and their children ages 8-16 to get healthy using cycling, the courses give instruction to all ability levels from learning how to ride a bicycle to road safety training.

The free, six week course takes place on Saturdays at Southfields and Roehampton, within the London Borough of Wandsworth. Bikes, vests, and helmets are all supplied for the sessions, making it even easier for families to participate. Also encouraging families to take part is an incentive of £50 worth of vouchers to local bike shops given on completion of the course.

“Cycling was chosen as we have a commitment to active transport and increasing physical activity, so we thought this would be a suitable project for both” said Wandsworth PCT member Emily DeNobrega, “We also thought that cycling may be something that people don’t take part in due to costs, and we hoped that we could help overcome this barrier.”