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Cycling without age.jpgCrowdfunding raises huge sum to bring cycling to elderly Scottish care home residents
A cycling project that allows elderly people to get out on a bike is to expand following viral video footage of care home residents enjoying a spin.
The BBC featured a video online of the Falkirk-based Cycling Without Age chapter, which had around 26 million hits on Facebook.
There followed a crowdfunding campaign which raised over £43,000 to expand the programme across Scotland, which will be combined with EU funding through the Scottish government.
The group is now able to purchase additional Trishaw bikes which will bring this project to new care homes giving up to 800 more care home residents access to rides.
We recently reported how the Brighton Cycling Without Age chapter was also crowdfunding for a second Trishaw, and is well on the way, with £3,000 of donations.
Each bike costs around £6,000 and is ridden by volunteers.
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- slc 5 sec ago
Ok, let me have another go at articulating this. Sometimes it is the location and volume of traffic that is dangerous, rather than what we usually...
- grOg 2 hours 18 min ago
Where does it state in the article that Ashley purchased the stock? it does state that Ashley bought the brand and intellectual property, not the...
- rogerwb 4 hours 58 min ago
Jump off the bike and run across. I cycle in trainers though.
- momove 6 hours 1 min ago
Cheers for the lesson! Wasn't expecting one so was pleasantly surprised, especially getting to find the origin of "laconic"!
- ktache 6 hours 48 min ago
Isn't it a rights issue?
- AidanR 7 hours 38 min ago
Same here - it took me by surprise. 10:30am doesn't feel like a dangerous time to cycle; apparently I'm wrong on that.
- Daddy Feebs 7 hours 51 min ago
If anything, it looks a bit like an SL6
- wtjs 8 hours 27 min ago
Other commenters have different views True!
- Daclu Trelub 8 hours 42 min ago
Incredibly bone-headed.
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The article fails to mention that the biggest Cycling Without Age project in the UK is in London, managed by Time & Talents in Rotherithe and facilitated by Cargobike Life
Fantastic, as a volunteer for Age UK I often chat to the oldies about their past and pretty much down to a man/woman they all rode bikes. Let's hope that the elf n safety nutters don't get a twitchy bum and stick their oars in!
A pal of mine has MS and we're trying to figure out a way of getting a few miles round the country lanes near his care home (without having to splash loads of cash) hopefully with a few fast runs where conditions allow. As he's an ex-copper with the MET I might have to be a bit cautious as I don't want to get dobbed in for Wanton and 'spurious' driving/riding ...
