Apart from the article in the telegraph referred to above there has been no official announcements re funding post the october spending review.
In the con-dem drive to get rid of quangos, Cycling England as a body may not survive the cuts in its current state howevcer some projects controlled by CE will survive. (CE, CTC and sustrans have met the DfT to inform them what projects are happening that would help meet departmental transport/environment and health targets) The government are committed to getting people cycling and london government in particular is commited to this. I suspect Bikeability cycle training will live on for a few years yet.
CTUK recently trained Theresa Villiers the transport minister, who said that she felt more confident after the training. While not commmiting to anything and not able to, since cycling is Norman Baker's remit not hers, she did indicate that they do value training as a way of getting people cycling and said she would be relating her cycle training experience to 'number 10'
There is still funding (though not clear how much) to continue the capacity building within the sector by funding instructor training with the bursary which suggests that there are still bikeability wildernesses in some parts of the country. The Instructor Training Organisations will shortly be announced which will take the sector to the next level in terms of quality and professional development for cycling instructors.
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Apart from the article in the telegraph referred to above there has been no official announcements re funding post the october spending review.
In the con-dem drive to get rid of quangos, Cycling England as a body may not survive the cuts in its current state howevcer some projects controlled by CE will survive. (CE, CTC and sustrans have met the DfT to inform them what projects are happening that would help meet departmental transport/environment and health targets) The government are committed to getting people cycling and london government in particular is commited to this. I suspect Bikeability cycle training will live on for a few years yet.
CTUK recently trained Theresa Villiers the transport minister, who said that she felt more confident after the training. While not commmiting to anything and not able to, since cycling is Norman Baker's remit not hers, she did indicate that they do value training as a way of getting people cycling and said she would be relating her cycle training experience to 'number 10'
There is still funding (though not clear how much) to continue the capacity building within the sector by funding instructor training with the bursary which suggests that there are still bikeability wildernesses in some parts of the country. The Instructor Training Organisations will shortly be announced which will take the sector to the next level in terms of quality and professional development for cycling instructors.
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