Balanceability is a nationwide programme available to schools, local authorities and leisure sites.
According to British Cycling / YouGov (2018), 33% of parents say their children can’t ride a bike, meaning many miss out on the countless physical, emotional, and social benefits cycling brings.
Our mission is to embed cycling into the lives and psyches of all children. Developed in partnership with child development experts and cycling professionals, the Balanceability programme ensures that every child has the opportunity to learn to ride a bike.
Attending a Balanceability demonstration at Welton Primary School, I was impressed with the potential opportunities it offered for younger children who would normally have to wait until year six to receive any formal cycle training. Not only does the scheme offer a logical step on the way to Bike-ability training, but it appears to equally support the requirements of the PE curriculum at Key Stage 1.
Balanceability also has the potential to fill a gap in current cycling and cycle training provision and dovetail into NGB schemes like British Cycling's Go Ride scheme. As an indoor activity it should offer leisure and community centres a great all-year-round fun activity and along with our local Avon and Somer Valley community schemes - plus the Sky Ride Bath - it is well placed to promote cycling to a wider age range.
