Recycle, Ride, Revive – Pedalling for a Greener Future for the Moorlands
Biddulph Town Council is working in partnership with Biddulph Library, Biddulph Youth and Community Zone, Moorlands Climate Action, Outside Arts, Staffordshire County Council, Staffordshire Police, Social Connective, and Support Staffordshire to develop and deliver a ‘Chain Reaction Project’, promoting cycling across the Staffordshire Moorlands.
The project aims to:
Gift unused bikes from local Recycling Centres to families that need them, reducing waste.
Encourage more involvement with arts and creative projects.
Encourage more people to learn about bike repair so they can maintain their own bikes – a ‘Fix and Ride’ initiative.
Improve health outcomes by promoting cycling routes across the Staffordshire Moorlands. Cycling can support both mental and physical health benefits, helping to reduce stress and fight depression, as well as helping to prevent long-term health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
Promote sustainable travel options. Cycling is an environmentally friending mode of transport.
Encourage investment in infrastructure, whether this be new or improved routes or the installation of bike repair stations and racks.
Work with partners to tackle anti-social behaviour by providing supervised activities.
Develop a Moorlands-wide forum that can share experiences and ideas, ensuring co-ordinated cycling activities continue beyond the period of the project.
9 April 2025 – Pathways To The Future – 4 Day Cycling Challenge Launch
Biddulph’s Town Mayor, Councillor Nigel Yates, started the project on the 9 April 2025, from the Life Stream Church car park in Biddulph, with the launch of his ‘Pathways to the Future’ charity bike ride. A four day challenge to promote sustainable travel exploring our country’s waterways.
Children from Knypersley First School and Kingsfield First School waved off the group, consisting of Councillor Nigel Yates, Tony Birchall, Ken Chaddock, Dave Lewis and Councillor Wayne Rogers.
The children were also delighted to see ‘Boomer’ from Port Vale Football Club.
Biddulph Yarnbarms decorated cycles and placed them around the town and also produced a topper for the post box outside the Town Hall.
The cycling team travelled from Biddulph to Regents Park in London using canal towpaths, with very minimal use of roads.
Here’s a few photos:
12 April 2025 – Chain Reaction Project Launch
On Saturday 12 April 2025 the ‘Chain Reaction Project’ was launched outside Biddulph Library.
Outside Arts hosted 3 x 30 minute performances of ‘Bicycle Ballet’ by Strictly Cycling. ‘Bicycle Ballet’ was an improvisational, visual performance and ‘cycle-about’ choreography inspired by flash mobs, dada-ism, every day cycling experiences and the great British weather. Performers in bright yellow cycled or wheeled their bikes. They created human/bike sculptures; parked their bikes in the hands of passers-by and battled in slow-motion races, celebrating cycling, life and yellowness!
Bikes were repaired, checked and marked with support from Moorlands Climate Action and the Repair Cafe.
Here’s some photos:
Biddulph Yarnbarms – Where’s the Third Yarn Bombed Bicycle?
To highlight the Chain Reaction Project two of the yarn bombed bicycles are in their new homes for the next 12 months.
The third bike will appear in a new location each week, moving around the whole of the town.
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