Annual report & accounts 2025-26

Education and training

Adult Cycle Training

People who take part in cycle training tend to cycle more often and feel more confident. 

Cycling Scotland’s adult cycle training offers support for everyone, from complete beginners learning to ride for the first time to professionals who use their bikes as part of their daily work duties. 

This year, we worked with a network of 64 delivery providers who provided national standard cycle training for 1,259 adults. This included support for 15 providers to remove barriers to training, with fully funded opportunities benefiting more than 400 adults in target communities. 

Early evaluation results show that most people who took part in funded training sessions felt more confident cycling afterwards. They also cycled more often and for longer. 

Altogether, nearly 3,500 adults completed cycle training, as riders, instructors and leaders.

Case Study

Empowering vision-impaired people to stay active through cycling

In 2025, we partnered with Visibility Scotland and Bike for Good to pilot cycle training for adult stroke survivors with homonymous hemianopia, a condition causing visual field loss. 

Building on existing advice and practical support that Visibility Scotland provides, to help people with vision impairments to remain active and independent, the training was very well received. 

Starting with observation and visual scanning techniques, before moving on to cycling control and positioning, the group eventually took to quiet streets to practice cycling with other people on the road.

Following the success of the pilot, Cycling Scotland has secured additional funding to work with Visibility Scotland to expand access to training in 2026.