In 2025–26, the Bikeability cycle training programme reached an all-time total of 6 million places delivered, boosting national active travel ambitions.
Generation Cycle: a year of impact
The Bikeability Trust’s impact report 2025–26 makes the case for cycle training for all ages, stages and communities, supporting the government’s bold new target for 60% of children aged 5–16 to usually cycle or walk to school by 2035.
The Bikeability Trust, the charitable incorporated organisation that manages, develops and promotes the Bikeability programme on behalf of the Department for Transport, published its latest impact report, Generation Cycle.
Bikeability is the flagship national cycle training programme for schoolchildren, funded by Active Travel England. In 2025–26, the Trust managed delivery of 460,465 Bikeability places across the country (excluding London) and, through its own Get Cycling in Schools programme, which upskills teaching staff to deliver early cycle training, delivered an additional 64,080 places for a total of 524,545 children trained.
Generation Cycle highlights include:
- 595 tonnes CO2e saved on Bikeability daysii through 460,465 places attended
- £78 million funding commitment over the next three years for the programme from Active Travel England
- Access to 6,086 cycles created through programmes & partnerships: up 27% YoY
- 93% of riders feel more confident cycling on roads after Bikeability Level 2
For the full article visit: Generation Cycle: a year of impact – Bikeability
