We also run family cycle clubs after school and at weekends, where the whole family can learn, each person at a level suitable for them, but again, in a supportive friendly atmosphere. We try and make sure that everyone is made to feel welcome as part of the 'club', (for example by having a tea break where we encourage people to come along and chat over a cup of coffee and a snack), offer a range of activities such as a 'how to fix a puncture' session, and a stall packed with free maps, leaflets and other cycling literature as part of the package to ensure people have all the skills and information they need in order to become independent cyclists.

Everyone joining our club sessions can borrow bikes from our bike pool - and this is crucial to getting beginners started cycling. Several mums have progressed from here right through to becoming cycle trainers themselves! Sofia, originally from Ethiopia, not only learnt the English she needed to know, but also learnt to ride a bike from scratch, and now is a fully qualified cycle trainer.

We hope to especially reach people from backgrounds where there is little or no tradition of cycling; and to be able to cater for all abilities.

Our first club was held in the summer of 2007, attended by 92 people, including one mum who asserted before the beginning of the sessions 'I'll never be able to ride!'

The club culminated in a marvellous led ride to watch the Prologue stage of the Tour de France. People of all ages (Zac,the youngest, was just 4 on that day!), and some people who came to the club only a few weeks before as total beginners, pedalled along and enjoyed themselves immensely. (The mum who had thought she would never be able to learn to cycle cycled on road all the way from Stoke Newington to Hyde Park and back again, a journey of some 10 miles!) Justifiably, people felt pride in their achievement, and gained immeasurably in confidence.