GRAND OPENING 3rd MAY 2013

Statistics

• 8408 Cycling related enquiries in the Hub since opening

• 1089 Partnership Enquires • 6166 Route Planning Enquires • 1426 Enquires about our events • 745 referrals to local businesses

At Stirling Cycle Hub we encourage and support people to get on their

bikes. We are passionate about cycling in all its forms and about the benefits it has both for the individual and for the community. We work within the following Vision and Aims to improve

and increase cycling in the Stirling area.

Vision

• To work towards a healthier, greener future by encouraging and supporting more people to cycle

Aims • To provide expert knowledge of cycle routes and support networks

in & around Stirling • To encourage and support individuals and groups to regularly cycle

as a healthy leisure activity • To encourage and support Employers and Employees to consider

commuting by bike as an alternative to other forms of transport • To work in partnership with and to signpost to existing cycling

provisions • To work towards these aims both through running and maintaining

a welcoming, professional space and through providing support and encouragement to communities and community groups

Staff Training

• We are all qualified to deliver the Cycling Scotland Essential Cycling Skills training programmes and are more than happy to deliver this service to employee groups as well as the sessions we run periodically from the Hub.

Accompanied Commutes

• We provide a service where should someone be considering commuting to work by bike but lack a bit of confidence we will help plot the safest and quickest routes on our GPS systems before actually cycling the routes with them, either actually on their way to work or at another time that suits. We hope this is a good way of providing support and encouragement while building confidence.

Awards

• We were awarded the National Cycle-Rail Award for Door to Door service 2014

• We won the the National Greener Together award 2014 for innovation in sustainable transport

• We won the Fintry Development Trust Fresh Egg award for Inspiration in Sustainable Transport Award 2014

Hub Events

• We have run or attended over 300 hundred events or led rides in the 25 months we have been open

• Regular Rides for beginners • Regular Rides for older people • Regular Rides building up distance for Pedal for

Scotland • NCN Tour • Stirling Festival of Cycling • Events Callander

Stirling Festival of Cycling

• This year we are organising the 1st Stirling Festival of Cycling on the weekend of 8th & 9th August

Festival of Cycling

• We are working in partnership with other groups and organisations in Stirling to put together a weekend festival which will both highlight the fun side of cycling and encourage people into the saddle, events as part of the festival include

• Mountain Bike Race @ Carron Valley - Skidaddle • Pedal for Parkinson's – Parkinson's UK • Kids Pump Track and Time Trial – Scottish MTB Consortium • Local food network stalls and food offering – Stirling Local Food Network • Briarlands Farm Family Fun Cycle – Briarlands Farm • Training Rides with Stirling Bike Club – Stirling Bike Club • Recyke-a-bike open day and kids entertainment – Recyke-a-bike • Cycling Movie Night – Creative Stirling

National Cycle Network 20th Anniversary Tour

• In partnership with Sustrans we are organising a national tour which will highlight the wonderful work being done by projects similar to ours while publicising and encouraging people to get out and join us on the NCN.

• Dawson Bike Club • Glasgow Bike Station • Belles on bikes • Neilston Development Trust • Velocity Café Inverness • Transition Black Isle

Cycle Share Scheme – Next Bike

• We have successfully implemented Nextbike in Stirling. We are the smallest bike share scheme of its kind in the UK but have developed a model which is not as reliant on footfall as other larger schemes

Partnership Model • As will all our work partnerships with local

organisations/institutions were incredibly important in the setting up, development and on going success of the Nextbike scheme

• Stirling Council • Stirling University • Forth Valley College • Keep Scotland Beautiful • The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency • Forth Valley NHS • Averaged 22.1 hires per day in April

Employers

• We have recently been successful in securing Smarter Choice Smarter Places funding for our Employer Engagement Programme. We will work intensively with 3 employers in Stirling assessing the numbers of employees who currently cycle and the barriers hindering others. We will work on a series of events and measures throughout the year to remove these barriers and increase the numbers cycling to work before our end of year survey which will assess the success of the programme

Employer Engagement

• Stirling Council • Prudential • Forth Valley College

• Series of measures tailored to the needs of each

employer including, led rides, accessing funding for better infrastructure, maintenance classes, cycle training, incentive scheme, pop up hubs, Dr Bikes, implementation of Nextbike and anything else relevant to the particular employer.

Social Networks • Twitter – 898 followers • Facebook – 1093 likes • Monthly Emailing List – 385 subscribers • Our Website at www.stirlingcyclehub.org

• Please follow, like or subscribe to keep up with our latest events and news

Evidencing our work • We carry out an end of year survey each year which is designed to

show wither our events, advice and other offerings actually get more people cycling, this years survey compaired to last years showed a small increase in cycling in general and a larger increase in people moving from leisure cycling to commuting.

• It is hoped that year upon year we can keep these figures increasing • We carry out a bike count around the various bike parking places at

the train station every two months and every count to date has seen an increase when compared to the same month the previous year.

• March 2014 – 25 bikes per day • March 2015 – 40 bikes per day • As mentioned previously Nextbike currently gets 22.1 hires per day

Feedback • I have been following the Cycle Hub since it opened and have attended

previous events which have slowly encouraged me to cycle more often. The Cycle Hub has made it fun but challenging which has kept me interested and we as a family are always on the lookout for the next event. On the run up to this particular event we have been kept informed at every stage and all the ladies who participated were extremely well looked after!! Well done Cycle Hub for organising such a fabulous event, looking forward to lots more like this. Laurie-Lee Moodie re Ladies 100k

• I'm glad there are people like you to help people like me! Just been on my first Hub Club Ride after doing regular meanders and loved it! Thanks. Alison Cowie re Hub Club Rides

• 82 young people attended the event and many of them have listed your workshop as being "The best thing about Create McLaren" - praise indeed! Katie Carmichael Stirling Youth Services