Annual report & accounts 2025-26

  1. Introduction
  2. Highlights
  3. Education & training
  4. Monitoring everyday cycling, road safety and connecting people
  5. Access to bikes, cycle parking & storage
  6. Transport Planning & Engineering
  7. Organisation

Introduction

Welcome

On behalf of the Board and staff, welcome to Cycling Scotland’s Annual Report 2025-26. This report highlights the wide range of everyday cycling projects, delivered by staff and colleagues from many organisations, helping more people to access all the benefits of travelling by bike.

There was a continued increase in Bikeability Scotland cycle training with a record 70% of primary schools now delivering the training, expanding cycling to more young people. A new 2025-28 strategy was agreed with local authorities to guide continued progress in a difficult fiscal context.  

Projects were delivered with Regional Transport Partnerships, expanding access to cycle storage and bikes and helping tackle transport poverty in many areas of Scotland.  

Our cycle monitoring showed continued, substantial growth in people travelling by bike at locations across Scotland, especially on the new cycle tracks being built in Glasgow and Edinburgh. 

The annual conference, held in Dundee, brought together 250 people focused on the progress being made in helping more people cycle more journeys and the urgent action needed to improve road safety.  

TP&E, the social enterprise consultancy established by Cycling Scotland, specialising in the design and delivery of infrastructure for cycling, walking or wheeling, delivered great new routes despite the most uncertain funding climate of the past 15 years. Successful, rapid repairs to a path washed away by flooding was yet another visible sign of how climate change is increasingly affecting us all.  

While there have been major funding challenges across the sector, the evidence of progress has been clear with thousands of people cycling to work on new infrastructure in our biggest cities and more people having access to bikes and storage.  

At the AGM in November we said farewell to trustees Ian Aitken and Eric Guthrie. Thanks to all volunteers who work on cycling and who help support and guide the charity, especially to Sally as she ends her time as Chair and trustee of the charity later this year and enjoys a well-earned retirement.

Keith Irving, Chief Executive

Professor Sally Wyke, Chair