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Deadline: 14 July 2025.
What is the Big Bike Revival?
The Big Bike Revival is an intervention for adults aimed at encouraging an uptake in cycling. By providing solutions to perceived barriers, adults are enabled to learn to how to cycle and to increase their cycling levels for short, everyday journeys. Events focus on presenting cycling as a practical, normal and habitual way to get around locally.
The Big Bike Revival is delivered across England by a wide range of community-embedded partners who understand the local need. An extensive programme of FREE events offering services that fix bikes, teach skills and lead rides, motivate adults to either start or return to cycling. Social and inclusive activities help adults of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to discover the joys of cycling and help make cycling become a normal travel option.
Delivering Fix-Learn-Ride events
The programme delivers three types of event based on the FIX-LEARN-RIDE model.
- Fix events – offer basic services to repair cycles and provide essential checks to ensure cycles are safe to ride
- Learn events – offer instruction, training or skills for adults to learn to maintain or repair their cycle or learn cycle skills to help them feel safer when cycling
- Ride events – offer led rides for adults to practise cycling locally, build confidence and learn new routes in a social environment
Who can apply to deliver the programme?
Delivery partners are typically volunteer-led groups, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises that are rooted in local communities and working to address a range of local needs.
They are experienced in engaging with non-regular cyclists and people in need in terms of social, economic and health deprivation.
They welcome applicants from delivery partners based anywhere in England, with the exception of London.
What is the maximum amount of funding you can apply for?
Grant funding up to £3,500 per application is available to support the delivery of events. Your funding amount will be shaped by your events plans and organisational costs. Every application is reviewed on a case-by-case basis, however, as a rough guide:
- For a grant of £2,000, partners should be able to deliver at least six events
- For a grant of £3,500, partners should be able to deliver at least 10 events