The Bikeability Trust

Who we are

Bikeability is the government’s national cycle training programme. It helps children learn practical skills and understand how to cycle on today’s roads. More than 5 million children have received Bikeability cycle training since 2007.

The Bikeability Trust runs the Bikeability programme for Active Travel England and the Department for Transport. We want to give everyone the confidence to cycle and enjoy this skill for life. 

We do not have a central office / HQ, everyone is based working remotely from home.

Our culture and values

We are: 

Expert: The Trust has successfully administered the Bikeability programme on behalf of government since 2018, delivering high-quality delivery guides and instructor training, and our workforce has thousands of years combined experience teaching people to cycle. 

Inspiring: Every rider completes our training feeling able, confident and motivated to cycle safely on the roads for short journeys. Transforming the traditional image of cycling to an everyday, everyone activity.   

Quality focussed: Our instructors deliver high-quality, consistent and standardised cycle training. We aim to ensure that every rider achieves the same outcomes to the same standard, taking into account their individual capabilities, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 

Inclusive: We take action to reduce barriers to participation, support underrepresented groups and ensure that anyone who wishes to access Bikeability cycle training is able to do so, and cycling is seen as an activity for all.  

Efficient: Our delivery programme offers value for money and is delivered in an economic, proportional and efficient way. 

Influential: We share our evidence of the impact of cycle training across a variety of sectors (transport, education, environment, health, leisure, etc) and work collaboratively with stakeholders, partners and commercial organisations to achieve our vision and influence behaviour change. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Our recruitment practices aim to attract applicants with the knowledge, skills and experience required for the job role, irrespective of an applicant’s background.  A diverse staff team supports us to better understand the needs of a diverse range of stakeholders.  We may therefore take positive action to improve our diversity amongst our volunteers or staff.   We will also take steps to anonymise applications before shortlisting and we will ask interviewees whether any adjustments are needed to enable them to participate in the selection process.  

We will avoid unlawful discrimination in all aspects of employment including recruitment, promotion, opportunities for training, pay and benefits, discipline and selection for redundancy.  Person specifications will avoid any unnecessary requirements (those unrelated to effective performance) that may otherwise have deterred applicants.  We will base decisions on objective criteria.  We will make reasonable adjustments in recruitment as well as in day-to-day employment.