Vision
To make cycling accessible to all by introducing the youth to bicycle skills with a progression to recreational and competitive cycling.
Mission
To provide young people with a safe and inclusive environment to learn and develop their cycling abilities.
Goals
- Establish a Grass Track Cycling Facility: Secure a suitable grass pitch for grass track cycling, ensuring a safe and enjoyable experience for participants.
- Acquire Essential Equipment: Provide bicycles, helmets, and tool kits to support the cycling program.
- Develop a Comprehensive Curriculum: Create a structured curriculum that covers basic cycling skills, safety protocols, and progressive training techniques.
- Organise Regular Training Sessions: Offer regular training sessions, catering to different skill levels and interests.
- Facilitate Community Engagement: Foster partnerships with local schools, community centres, and cycling clubs and the broader community to promote cycling and increase accessibility.
The Pathway
Activities
The programme is initially aimed at the Kuils River communities such as Highbury, Danarand, Kalkfontein and Stellendale.
Aimed at the youth from any age – from the kiddies to the bigger ones, girls and boys.
Helmets are compulsory.
Basic skills development sessions aimed at the youth to engender a sense of confidence and safety while cycling. In addition to the introduction of basic handling skills and adherence of traffic rules, care for the bike and equipment will also be taught .
As the programme progresses the youth will be introduced to grass track cycling where racing will be introduced in a safe environment on a marked-out sports field.
Once the confidence levels have improved organised road rides within the community will be organised.
Contribution to Sustainability
- Active mobility is a human right on all scales – including the right to cycle. Cycling is directly linked to 12 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Through this programme, the youth will have an understanding of the SDG’s and be active in the pursuit of achieving the SDG’s
William Newman
cycling@newmaxprojects.co.za
+27 83 321 3695
