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Cucle Training Wales offers bike maintainance courses,
both to individuals and to organisations. We're a social enterprise offering training
from complete beginners to regular commuters. Our main aims and objectives are to promote
cycling as a healthy and affordable mode of transport that's
friendly to the environment through the provision of training services.
We promote cycling through a number of different services,
we offer school training to local authorities. We go into community groups like the Butetown
Youth Pavillion, the Huggard Homeless Centre and many community
organisations in the the Welsh valleys, but we've delivered this sort of training
all over Wales. It's important for Cycle Training Wales to
come to Huggard cos there's a lot of lads here with bikes but
don't really know how to maintain them properly so you know,
it's good that they get a little knowledge of how to
maintain a bike themselves. You know, if like, the chain comes off or
just to sort out their brakes. I think it's a good thing.
Our courses equip people with the skills to make jouneys by bicycle
a practical and enjoyable option. We do generate a surplus and gererally we
plough that back into the organisation provising community-based activities, such
as Doctor Bikes, in deprived areas. The social enterprise model works for Cycle
Training Wales as it's a sustainable form of development, we don't have to rely
on grant funding and we can plan for the future, being self-reliant.
Before the formation of Cycle Training Wales there was no Welsh
organisation delivering the breadth of services that we offer.
We've worked in partnership with lots of different organisations,
we've adapted the services we offer, depending on the location
and we offer a real quality service and people keep coming back to us after they've
accessed our services.