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Young People from Tyneside Outdoors’ (TO) Temple Raiders can be serving to different young individuals get on their bikes throughout Cycle to School Week which take locations subsequent week with help from the Platten Family Fund on the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland.
Following the group’s work over the winter with PHD researcher Eileen Lauster and help from Voluntary Organisations Network North East’s (VONNE) Act Green Together – Seed-Corn Funding venture, Tyneside Outdoors is increasing its work to maintain extra young individuals in South Tyneside lively on their bikes.
Next week will see TO’s bike mechanics and young volunteers serving to out with 5 free Dr Bike periods for young individuals to help them to ‘Cycle to School’.
Sessions will run from 4pm to 6pm and are open to young individuals aged 11 – 18 years old.
TO’s new venture a twice-weekly Young People’s Bike Repair Drop-in will run at TO’s new neighborhood useful resource, TO bike. located at The Nook, in South Shields.
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The Drop-in will provide young individuals the chance to hold out their very own repairs totally free with the help and steering of TO’s Bike Mechanics and Youth Workers.
Young volunteers from TO’s Temple Raiders, whose group have been offering free repairs to young individuals in Temple Park can be available to assist with the working of subsequent week’s periods.
The analysis work with young individuals, as a part of The Astra Project, checked out their experiences of biking in and round Tyneside. A significant component of their continued enjoyment of biking was access to reasonably priced repairs.
Young individuals in want of a motorbike restore will be capable to perform repairs to their very own bikes with help from professional bike mechanics and with access to the entire TO bike. tools.
Ryan Dobson, a young volunteer from Temple Raiders bike group stated: “I’ve been learning bike repairs since I first started with Temple Raiders and have gained a Velotech Silver qualification so can help other young people with their bike repairs and it’s great to be able to do this indoors, instead of outdoors in Temple Park with torches.”
Paul McLelland, Shop Manager at TO bike. added: “It’s great to be able to support young people to learn to fix their own bikes, it will save them money and build on their skills either as future cyclists or maybe as bike mechanics themselves.”
The venture’s success in gaining the funding follows work by TO to check out new venture concepts as a part of VONNE’s Act Green Together seed fund venture, which allotted funding offered by the National Lottery Community Fund to native teams and organisations to check out new ‘green’ initiatives and to offer early proof for potential funders.
The Platten Family Fund on the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland, was one such funder who was eager to assist young individuals study STEM topics exterior of formal training.
Ross Wilson, Senior Philanthropy Advisor on the Community Foundation stated “We knew that Tyneside Outdoors was working with a well-established group of young people in South Shields, and it was clear that this project would be a natural extension of the current provision.
“Particularly since Covid, we’ve seen the benefit of regular, structured, and safe youth provision, and that this project will enable young people to spend time outdoors and learn how to maintain and repair their bikes is especially encouraging.”
Nathaniel Spain, Going Green Together Project Coordinator added: “We’re thrilled to see how Tyneside Outdoors’ work has developed within the areas of wellbeing, lively journey, building abilities and lowering waste.”
TO’s Young People’s Bike Repair Drop-in is open to all young individuals aged 11 – 18 years old and can function twice-weekly (Monday and Thursday provisionally).
