Wheels for Wellbeing

Wheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting Disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling. Their vision is for a future where Disabled people in the UK will cycle whenever and wherever they wish to – for everyday journeys, leisure or exercise – and cycle routes will be inclusive and accessible. The aim is that their work will transform attitudes to disability and ensure healthy, independent mobility for Disabled people.

Cycling is for everyone. Increased cycling is an important part of more environmentally sustainable and healthy lifestyles. Many Disabled people can cycle but many things make it more difficult such as entrances to cycle paths that are designed only for two-wheeled bicycles or the expectation that all cyclists can dismount and walk with their cycle. Many Disabled people ride bicycles, but if you need a tricycle, recumbent or handcycle, those are unaffordable for many – especially if you need battery-assist.

Wheels for Wellbeing campaigns to remove barriers to cycling so that it is just as easy, accessible and affordable for Disabled people to cycle as for everyone else. The support in the name of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant will fund the education work of the charity to promote inclusion for Disabled people in all types of cycling – particularly everyday cycling.

We can be confident that the work Pageant is supporting will be effective because Wheels for Wellbeing is led by Disabled people with lived experience: people who know the sheer joy which cycling brings, when moving is otherwise tricky; people who understand the barriers Disabled people experience when trying to become more physically active, and therefore who know exactly what is needed to remove these barriers.

19 Mar 2022

United Kingdom