Government gives £10M to Bikeability

01 April 2009

Transport minister, Paul Clark, has announced £10M of government funding as part of the official launch of this year’s Bikeability.

The money will enable 200,000 more schoolchildren in England to have the chance to take part in the cycling proficiency scheme, taking the total to 350,000 by spring 2010.

The funding is part of a £140M package which aims to enable 500,000 youngsters to take part by 2012.

Philip Darnton, chairman of Cycling England, said: ‘We are determined to make 2009 the year of Bikeability and this funding is a tremendous start.’

Local authorities in the Northwest and Southeast will receive the most funding – £1.33M and £1.08M respectively – with the rest of the money shared among the other regions.

Bikeability was launched in March 2007 as a new training standard designed to ‘provide children with the on-road skills they need to handle modern traffic conditions’.

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