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.
