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Iʼve raised £730 to build a mountain-biking skills loop at Inverness Royal Academy
- Inverness
- Funded on Tuesday, 31st August 2021
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Inverness Royal Academy Cycle Hub group was established in 2018 and aims to widen access to all forms of cycling for our pupils, their families and the wider community. Find out more about what we have done by reading our case-study from Cycling Scotland or our nomination for DMBinS Awards 2019.
As part of this broad aim we have established a school MTB club which receives coached sessions, led rides and an annual bikepacking expedition. The club is hoping to develop an already established trail on the school grounds to include skills features such as berms, drops, rock gardens and table tops suitable for MTB and BMX.
Being in the urban environment of Inverness some of our youngsters struggle to get the opportunity to ride technical features in a safe, managed environment. We want to be able to offer coached sessions at a higher technical level and by having a purpose built trail on the school grounds it would be accessible to the club at lunchtimes and after-school, and the community in the evenings and at weekends.
We hope to achieve the following:
Increased participation in extra-curricular MTB club
Develop the sport of MTB by offering grass-route coaching with links to further pathway opportunities including making links to UCI 2023 to inspire competitive pupils
Increased health & wellbeing of pupils with ASN or from low SIMD areas through curricular and extra-curricular involvement in riding, bike maintenance and trail design
Increased participation in mountain biking for girls through providing coaching, role models and targeted activities
Provide leadership opportunities and develop "skills for work" in our school community including building a sense of pride and responsibility for the facility
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- 3 hrs ago
Jane Chisholm
3 hrs agoIt’s all happening! Very excited to see the project finally getting into the build. Will be bikes lapping it very soon 🥳
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- 3 years ago
Jane Chisholm
3 years agoWe’re at £56.5k and “only” need to raise a further £3500!
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- 3 years ago
Jane Chisholm
3 years agoSportscotland funding has been successful! So exciting to see this project all come together :) We are still collecting donations though to make the project as amazing as possible. https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/projects-set-to-benefit-from-cycling-facilities-fund-251463/
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27
Pauline McVey
Jul 8, 2021
Love this. Making things happen. Much applause!
£30.00
Murray, Maria and family
Apr 27, 2021
Great project! More power to your elbow(s).
Anonymous
Apr 21, 2021
Blair
Apr 11, 2021
Great project. I look forward to this giving young people the conficendce to enjoy cycling and the benefits that will come from that!
Anne MacRae
Mar 31, 2021
What a brilliant project!
£20.00
Anonymous
Mar 31, 2021
Marie Bain
Mar 29, 2021
£20.00
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Jane Chisholm
Inverness
PE Teacher and Mountain Biking adventurer at Inverness Royal Academy.