Swan residents Get Cycling

32 Swan residents living in London have recently ‘Got Cycling’ with a new bike just by joining a course run by Swan’s Resident Involvement and Community Development team! Swan received £10k funding from the London Borough of Tower Hamlet’s Air Quality Fund to deliver this project. The funding was provided to initiatives and campaigns that can help tackle air pollution in the Borough.

Over the course of six weeks residents from Bow Cross, Exmouth and Blackwall Reach built their own bike and achieved Bikeability Level 1 and 2 accreditations.

Richard said: “I think it’s an absolutely brilliant idea and I would like to give compliments to all the trainers involved. They obviously knew exactly what they were talking about and were good at explaining things – I am the kind of person who likes to ask questions and they

were never too impatient to explain exactly what they were doing in constructing the bikes and showing us how to maintain them.

Of course, getting the bike at the end was a bonus, but I think that even without that, the course was well worth doing – I’ve cycled before, but have always been too intimidated to cycle on busy roads. I have really appreciated learning new skills.”