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Home > £3m grant announced to provide cycle training for 80,000 children

£3m grant announced to provide cycle training for 80,000 children

Published: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:34:39

Transport Minister Rosie Winterton announced that over £3m would be dedicated to providing cycle training to nearly 80,000 school children by March 2009. This funding is part of the record £140m package announced in January, which will give up to half a million ten to eleven year olds cycle training by 2012.

Cycling has a major role to play in the Government's drive to promote sustainable travel - 41% of all trips are less than two miles, a distance easily cycled in less than 15 minutes. Bikeability training gives children and parents the skills and confidence to cycle safely on today's busy roads, enabling them to undertake short journeys, for example cycling to school.
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