Deadline: 29-Oct-21
Applications are now open for the Widening Participation Fund to help children with Special Education Needs and/or disabilities access Bikeability training.
The fund will help to identify those children who don’t currently access Bikeability, address the barriers that they face to access training and seek ways to resolve these. This will then help The Trust and the Department for Transport understands how to create a programme that reaches every child.
The aim of the Widening Participation Fund is to identify those children who don’t currently access Bikeability, look at the barriers to uptake and seek ways to resolve these. This will then help The Trust and the DfT understand how to create a programme that reaches every child.
Objectives
- Two key objectives of this fund are as follows;
- Piloting new forms of Bikeability training with a focus on reaching every child
- Piloting initiatives that remove barriers to access to participating in Bikeability
- The Trust does not wish to place too many constraints on what they hope will be truly innovative proposals. However, following consultations with stakeholders , four broad areas have been identified that they feel need to be highlighted. These are as follows (and in no particular order)
- Lower take up in areas of deprivation
- Low take up amongst specific ethnic backgrounds
- Low delivery of Level 3 Training
- Low participation amongst Female teenagers
Funding Information
- The Department for Transport is releasing at least £1 million into a new Widening Participation Fund.
- All bids up to a maximum of £75K will be considered by the board. Larger bids may be taken into consideration by exception if the board is in agreement.
Eligibility Criteria
The Widening Participation fund is open to all and they would like to invite applications from any organisation that can help them address these issues. However, please note that any cycle instruction must be undertaken by qualified National Standards Instructors who are registered with the Bikeability Trust, and any Balance bike training by those who have completed the Bikeability Balance Training.
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