Training Courses

Cycle Training for Companies

We can arrange training to help you meet the objectives of your travel plan including getting more people to work by cycle. Courses will be tailor made. It is easy to organise and involves you in minimal work. Ridewise does all the preparation and training and reports back. We provide you with the information to go out to your members of staff. We do not want to stop you from going about your daily business.

Why give your staff cycle training

The travel plan – a management tool for the efficient use of transport to/from and at work identified cycling people would like to do more of - but the perception that cycling is not safe is one of the reasons why staff do not cycle at all or more.

Health problems associated with obesity and inactivity have a direct impact on retention and recruitment of staff. Staff on long term sick have to be covered and paid.
Unhealthy staff are less productive and efficient. Sickness cost British industry about £12 billion a year. Long term sickness accounts for 1/3rd of time lost. The management time spent resolving the impact of someone going off on long term sick is huge.

On a basic level staff who get out of breath climbing a flight of stairs or walking across site or across the office will lack the ability to be productive throughout the working day. Lethargy, tiredness, mental sluggishness are direct consequences of being inactive.

Companies have a financial self interest in ensuring their staff have a basic level of fitness.

Not every can or wants to cycle to work. There are plenty who would like to, even some of the time, than actually do. Encouraging staff to be active as part of their daily lives even away from work has an impact on their overall levels of fitness and that impacts on their productivity as an employee.

The average age of the workforce will increase due to demographic changes and the pensions shortfall requiring people to work longer. It is inevitable that as the population ages the willingness to work full time diminishes. More part time workers requires more people. At the same time as the need for more people rises the pool of potential employees reduces as people die and become sick. It becomes essential that there are as many people of working age as possible.

Keeping people fit and active is the best way of lengthening working lives. It becomes essential to keep as many of the existing staff as possible. Encouraging all staff to be fit and active has direct financial benefits for the company. By making cycle training available to all staff whether they cycle to work or not is a great way of building daily exercise into everyday life – and that is the most effective way of creating a lifestyle that is fit and healthy.

Bike Loans

If you do not have a bike of your own we can loan you one so that you can have our cycle training, subject to availability.

If you would like to borrow a bike please complete the section on the booking form or contact us.
If we can loan you a bike, written confirmation shall be sent and the letter will be the authority you need to borrow the bike. Cycle loan conditions apply