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Cycling England launches Bikeability assistant instructor course

Bikeability needs YOU and Cycling England will pay to train new assitant instructors

Cycling England is looking for more people to help increase the amount of Bikeability training it offers the nation's youngsters. To meet that need it is introducing a two-day assistant instuctors course for people wanting to help deliver Bikeability training, which is provided free to all of the country’s schools.

The programme, called the National Standard Assistant Instructor course, supplements the existing four-day National Standard Instructors course, and is designed to encourage more people to become involved in giving Bikeability lessons as well as providing support for existing instructors.

People completing the course will be qualified to help deliver Levels 1 and 2 of the National Standard while supervised by a qualified instructor, and Cycling England says that training bursaries of £150 are on offer to help meet the cost of the course.

According to Bikeability Manager Paul Robison, the course provides “an ideal starting point for current cycle training volunteers or young leaders who want to become qualified to deliver Bikeability. It aims to train more people with a general interest and enthusiasm for cycling, to provide support to Bikeability schemes in a professional capacity that was not possible before."

He continued, "the course will help to achieve our vision of giving every child the chance to take part in Bikeability training.”

Bikeability was launched in 2007 and is billed as “the country’s official cycling proficiency for the 21st century.”

Some 2,000 qualified instructors deliver training in schools across England on Bikeability’s three levels, including teaching basic bike handling skills, cycling on quieter roads, and dealing with more challenging traffic conditions.

The new course, which is recognised by the Department for Transport, was trialled earlier this year and national rollout begins this month, starting with Cycle Training West Midlands.

Anyone interested in taking this course, or the four-day course for National Standard Instructors, should in the first instance contact an accredited Instructor Training Provider, a list of which is available on the Bikeability website, which also has information on the bursaries available.
 

 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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to be fair I'm sure it wasn't the notion of being called English that was the problem it was the conflation of English = British  1

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Simon_MacMichael | 14 years ago
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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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yes it was edited and it's been edited again so that no-one has to feel insulted by the notion that they might be being called English

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Simon_MacMichael | 14 years ago
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Crumbs. As a Scottish person myself I'd be mortified if it was like that when I uploaded it. Though re-reading it I suspect there's been some well-intentioned editing of the first para since then  3

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Tony Farrelly | 14 years ago
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Fair point effem, I suppose our only defence is that English kids are British too. Does Cycling Scotland not have an equivalent to Bikeability?

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effemm | 14 years ago
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Oh dear, more England/Britain conflation.

I'd actually really like to get involved in this but it seems there's no direct equivalent north of the border...

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