Choose Cycling Update June 2011

The Active Travel Challenge is back!

Get ready for the Active Travel Challenge, coming again to Derbyshire in September 2011! This year, the Challenge is open to anyone who can set up a team, whether a workplace, school, club or informal group. Once again, there are some great prizes to be won, just for taking part! We also have a job opportunity for someone with marketing experience and an enthusiasm for green travel and activity to help us promote the Challenge over the next few months (see details below or click here).

Can we beat last year's total of 463 people and 23 organisations?

The Challenge is funded by NHS Derbyshire County and a national funder.

More details coming soon ...

Cycling 4 Health in Long Eaton

If you would like to gain more confidence on a bike, take a bike home with you and try it out, brush up on your bike maintenance skills, or learn about routes local to the Long Eaton area, Cycling 4 Health is for you! Free Bikeability Cycle Training, Bike rides, maintenance workshops and bike hire at West Park, Long Eaton from now until October. West Park is a lovely place to learn to cycle, with the Nutbrook and Erewash Valley Trails within easy cycling reach. More details here

We are also developing Bike Ride Leading courses and looking for local volunteers to run bike rides. If you are interested in becoming a Bike Ride Leader, please get in touch.

This project is funded by NHS Derbyshire County and delivered in partnership with Erewash Borough Council.

Pedal Power in Chesterfield

Transition Chesterfield is offering free Bikeability Cycle Training sessions, bike mechanic training and a cycle roadshow over the summer as part of its Fossil Fuel to Pedal Power Project.

Find out more  here.

Saddle up for Summer with Pedal Peak District!

Pedal Peak District is offering free cycle support on Sundays in Bakewell over the summer, which will include cycle training and Dr Bike safety checks. More details here.

There are also some new cycle route maps, 9 new "journeys of discovery" in and around the Peak District area, and a new electric bike hire scheme. And the Monsal Trail and its tunnels has finally been opened! Cycle a route that has been blocked for 40 years, through railway tunnels and over viaducts with amazing views. Find out more about Peak District cycling here.

Vacancy

Choose Cycling is recruiting an Active Travel Challenge Promotions Officer. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with marketing experience to help with one of the biggest travel and activity campaigns in the area. The successful applicant will be home-based, with the ability to travel to Belper or Derby for regular meetings. Deadline for applications 5^th July 2011.

More details and how to apply here.

Choose Cycling is a not-for-profit social enterprise and community group based in Derbyshire. We aim to give everyone the chance to experience the joys and benefits of regular cycling and active travelling.

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