Book an All-Ages Accessible Cycle ride

Vital to READ!

[REPEAT BOOKING? Skip to last section at bottom of page for reminder instruction] and then just click the BOOK NOW red button.

Booking below instruction is ONLY for first-time bookers of for our All-Ages Accessible Cycle rides. These rides are where you come to us and we train your carer/family/friend to Pilot a multi-person trike with you.  

Our separate Elder Care Rides (collect elders from care homes, home care and NHS dementia wards). These are ONLY from Care homes/wards we work with on a set-weekly schedule. You can ask the relevant care home to contact us to join our waitlist for a regular weekly slot or email us to request that we contact them.  

READ ON to book All-Ages Accessible Rides from our seafront base, Madeira Drive, Brighton:

Low or no-cost rides for anyone living with disability or health needs

We are unable to give one-off hire to city-visitors or people not in our target beneficiary population. 

PLEASE DO NOT book a ride as a ‘ONE-OFF’ for a visitor or occassion. We cannot resource these as a small independent charity. Training a new carer-pilot is a considerable investment of our very limited resources and takes the opportunity away from someone who could repeat-use the service. Thank you.

Donation request towards cost of ride

A per-ride donation of £11 (25% of the cost) is requested from participants who can afford it. Pedal People covers the remaining 75% of the cost through fundraising.

Participants receiving Universal Credit or those struggling financially can ride for free (we cover 100% of the cost). 

Requesting donations where possible, helps us meet the full cost of rides and enable the charity to continue. 

Exemptions from donation requests are:

1) On Universal Credit and living independently (not with relatives and not in residential or supported care with local authority care packages).

OR

2) Struggling financially (by this we mean: Unable to meet basic living costs easily). Low or no-income.

If you meet one of the exemption criteria above or have any donation query at all, please do email: hello@pedalpeople.org.uk and we will answer your query and/or provide a code for you to enter on booking for 100% free rides.

Useful to know:

• We have a moible hoist.  Max weight: 120kg. We supply 1 hoist trained staff to work with you/your trained carer or 2 staff on request. You are offered this option during booking.  

• Ride duration: 90 minutes, including on/off-boarding time. You can cycle as much of this as you want and the participant does not need to pedal constantly - there are lots of adaptable options.

• First time booking? We train you to use our cycles, safety policies and routes. No cycle experience required. 

• BOTH participant and Carer-Pilot come together on your 'first-time ride' training.  First-time-rides have our cycle trainer with you alongside. 

• You will see our terms & conditions once you select the type of ride you want in the booking system (next step). 

• Read why particpants on this service always need to bring their own Cycle-Pilot with them.

• We train 1 Carer-Pilot per participant. If you then want to ride regularly we can train another Carer-Pilot for you so you have options to ride when one Carer-Pilot is not available. 

• IMPORTANT: Your own Cycle-Pilot must attend (friend, carer, PA, family) with each participant for your 'First-time-ride-training' and all subsequent rides. 

  You both come on the trike on your 'first-time ride training with our cycle trainer attending alongside. 

First-time-ride: Booking steps -

Below you will shortly click the ‘Book Now' red button below -  you will then need to:

1) Select 'Accessible Cycle Rides' option.

2) Select relevant cycle type. Read the info on both options to decide which will suit you.

3) Select: ‘FIRST-TIME compulsory cycle pilot training’ ride option. The dates and times then appear for you.

YOU ARE NOW READY TO BOOK!

SCROLL to foot of page to click

RED BOOK NOW BUTTON

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Repeat booking? Essential to read below:

(If not repeat booking you can now skip to foot of this page to the BOOK NOW button!)

• All your details from previous booking are saved in your login profile. 

• Login and select type of cycle you have been trained to use to make a booking for it again.  

  See ‘To make recurring booking’ below for how to book up to 8 weeks worth of rides in one go).

• Edit (cancel or move) your bookings yourself - just select login, select ‘My Bookings’ and then the booking you want to alter.