Welcome to Bike Week 2024

Bike Week 2024

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What is Bike Week?

Bike Week is the UK’s biggest awareness raising moment of the year for cycling and a chance to celebrate. It’s a time to remind ourselves of all the positives that riding a bike can bring, both to our own health and wellbeing, as well as the wider impacts on our communities and the planet. This year, Cycling UK wants to celebrate cycling as a force for good. We want to encourage and enable more cycling by celebrating all those who cycle. We know that when more people cycle, we all become happier, healthier, greener and more connected.

Remember

Be a #BikeHero this Bike Week

Together we can build a happier, healthier and greener world through cycling – and you don’t need to wear a cape to do it!

Being a #BikeHero helps to:

Save the planet

Reduce emissions, increase air quality and protect nature

Save money

Cycling is one of the most cost-effective ways to get around

Save stress levels

Get outside for fresh air, freedom and a great work-out for your mind and body

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Get involved and support us:

Let everyone know it’s #BikeWeekUK – inspire others to take part by sharing Bike Week, and your Bike Heroes, online.

Being a #BikeHero helps to

1. Replace a short local journey you’d normally make by car

2. Take the kids out for a bike ride – perhaps even a cycle to school

3. Encourage friends to join you on a ride

4. Join a Bike Week event in your local area – check here for local events

5. Inspire others, post a selfie, or pictures of your bike ride or journey on social media

Use the hashtag #BikeWeekUK and #BikeHero

Champion cycling in the workplace

1. Host a bike breakfast or reward day

A popular activity for Bike Week is to host a Bike Breakfast. Reward those who ride to work during Bike Week with a special welcome meal. Or, for those who work remotely gift them an hour to go for a Bike Week ride locally.

2. Promote your cycling offers

Remind staff of any workplace support you have for cycling. Use it as an opportunity to showcase your Cycle Friendly Employer accreditation or cycle to work scheme.

3. Buddy scheme

People who haven’t cycled to work before may feel anxious about doing it for the first time. Show them how wonderful cycling to work can be, by creating a buddy scheme during Bike Week. By sharing knowledge on the best routes and making the most of the ride to work, staff are much more likely to make the switch to cycling.

Support our vision to create happier, healthier and greener lives through cycling

1. Share our new bold vision during Bike Week! As a charity, we want to collaborate and partner with as many people and organisations as we can to make the greatest possible impact on people’s lives. Sharing our new vision will help to champion cycling as a force for good.

2. Donate

Your support will help to super charge our award-winning campaign work, focused on making our towns and cities safer for people who cycle and increasing access to the countryside so people can explore more of our green spaces by bike.

3. Become a member

Enable us to have a louder voice to lobby government, campaign for improved rights and inspire more cycling. You’ll also receive great cycling benefits including insurance, discounts and expert advice and information.

Remember to use the hashtags #BikeWeekUK and #BikeHero

Bike Week 2024

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Who are your Bike Heroes?

Who has inspired you to cycle? Maybe you think back to your mum or dad and your first bike. Or maybe it’s a community leader, who helped you fix a long-forgotten bike – like those who lead our Big Bike Revival programme.

Who has made a difference to the walking and cycling community, to the roads and transport systems near to where you live?

Let’s give them a moment in the spotlight this Bike Week! Share your #BikeHero on social media this #BikeWeekUK

Remember to use the hashtags #BikeWeekUK and #BikeHero