Go-Ride Mountain Biking at Danbury is an instant success
Half-term proved to be a busy time within the Eastern Region with a Go-Ride Mountain bike activity at Danbury Outdoors Centre in Essex. Over 50 new participants to cycle sport engaged in the activity, which was delivered by Alison Lilley, Eastern Go-Ride coach.
Over the past few months the region has seen a steady growth of young people taking up the opportunity to experience British Cycling coached activities. The holiday programme at Danbury is just one part of a seamless programme running in the county of Essex.
After a long and gruelling week, Alison Lilley said “it’s been a really positive half-term week. I have noticed that a lot of individuals at our holiday activity programmes are the same young people that I’ve coached on our PESSCL schools programme. It’s really encouraging, what we are doing in schools is having a major impact and young people are coming on our holiday programmes for some more coached activities”.
Danbury provided an ideal facility where the children could progress their basic cycling techniques, learnt in the playground, in a more discipline specific arena.
The holiday activity at Danbury has not just been solely about running a coaching session for children, but working in partnership with Chelmsford Borough Council. This partnership has included promoting the activity within the various School Sports Partnerships and leisure centres in and around the borough. The sports development unit at the council not only supported the Go-Ride activity, but a whole week of cycling in Chelmsford, which included working with the local Go-Ride club, Chelmer Cycling Club.
Claire Cornwell from Chelmsford Borough Councils, Sports Development Unit said “this project had been very successful for us this week and we are really keen to repeat the programme next year. Our Cyclemania week was generously sponsored by Cycles UK, which enabled us to have promotional leaflets distributed across the borough and beyond”.
Cycling in the county is gaining momentum with the excitement of the Olympic mountain bike event in 2012 being staged at Weald Park. The county is gearing up and the Essex-based cycling clubs are getting ready for the influx of new participants coming into cycle sport on the back of the Olympic wave.
British Cycling’s Eastern Region programme moves on to an inter-schools competition this week, and we will bring you a full report on what’s proving to be a well dynamic programme to further engage schools in the sport.
Issued by Nigel Hampton
For further information contact Nigel Hampton (British Cycling, Eastern Region Manager 079940 738319 – email nigelhampton@britishcycling.org.uk
British Cycling is the National Governing Body for Cycle Sport
Go-Ride is a programme for young people to engage in to cycle sport
Over the past few months the region has seen a steady growth of young people taking up the opportunity to experience British Cycling coached activities. The holiday programme at Danbury is just one part of a seamless programme running in the county of Essex.
After a long and gruelling week, Alison Lilley said “it’s been a really positive half-term week. I have noticed that a lot of individuals at our holiday activity programmes are the same young people that I’ve coached on our PESSCL schools programme. It’s really encouraging, what we are doing in schools is having a major impact and young people are coming on our holiday programmes for some more coached activities”.
Danbury provided an ideal facility where the children could progress their basic cycling techniques, learnt in the playground, in a more discipline specific arena.
The holiday activity at Danbury has not just been solely about running a coaching session for children, but working in partnership with Chelmsford Borough Council. This partnership has included promoting the activity within the various School Sports Partnerships and leisure centres in and around the borough. The sports development unit at the council not only supported the Go-Ride activity, but a whole week of cycling in Chelmsford, which included working with the local Go-Ride club, Chelmer Cycling Club.
Claire Cornwell from Chelmsford Borough Councils, Sports Development Unit said “this project had been very successful for us this week and we are really keen to repeat the programme next year. Our Cyclemania week was generously sponsored by Cycles UK, which enabled us to have promotional leaflets distributed across the borough and beyond”.
Cycling in the county is gaining momentum with the excitement of the Olympic mountain bike event in 2012 being staged at Weald Park. The county is gearing up and the Essex-based cycling clubs are getting ready for the influx of new participants coming into cycle sport on the back of the Olympic wave.
British Cycling’s Eastern Region programme moves on to an inter-schools competition this week, and we will bring you a full report on what’s proving to be a well dynamic programme to further engage schools in the sport.
Issued by Nigel Hampton
For further information contact Nigel Hampton (British Cycling, Eastern Region Manager 079940 738319 – email nigelhampton@britishcycling.org.uk
British Cycling is the National Governing Body for Cycle Sport
Go-Ride is a programme for young people to engage in to cycle sport
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