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Helping kids learn to ride bikes

$10,280 of $15,000 goal
Given by 76 generous donors in around 3 months

Bikes in Schools helps schools get kids on bikes. Please help Team Akina raise money for them in the 2019 Tour of New Zealand cycle race.

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Bikes in Schools helps get kids on bikes. As each new school track opens, it’s always a huge thrill to see kids learn to ride, and gain fitness, confidence and a sense of adventure.

"My legs are my petrol,” said one very young Hastings lad on his first ride.

“We haven’t yet found a child who didn’t want to ride,” says Paul McArdle who established and runs the programme.

Teachers also say riding kids are happier, healthier and better students.

Bikes in Schools already benefits 30,000 children in more than 100 schools...and is aiming to raise that by a further 43,000 kids in the next few years.

According to 2015 Ministry of Transport figures, the average time biked by children aged 5 to 12 fell from 28 minutes a week in 1990 to just four minutes a week in 2014. The average distance they ride fell from 2.8km a week in 1990 to 500m in 2014.

At the Akina Foundation, we’ve proved the wider health, family and community benefits of kids riding more in a Social Return on Investment analysis.

To help raise money for Paul and the kids, we eight riders on Team Akina will compete in the 2019 Tour of New Zealand cycle race, April 6-13. Please support us!

Thanks!

Nick Clements, Katie Gormley, Leonie and Kieran Guiney, Donna and Corrie Smit, Geoff Scott, and Rod Oram, Akina Foundation, chair emeritus.

Rod Oram's involvement (page creator)

My cycling team and I have been raising money for the Trust's Bikes in School's programme on all five Tour of NZ cycle races to date - 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. We used a Givealittle page in 2015...and are setting up this page for the 2019 Tour. I have worked closely with the founder of the Trust, Paul McArdle since he set it up in 2010.

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Ellie Craft
Ellie Craft on 07 May 2019
spreading the love of bike riding to the next generation, happy birthday El-bell
$25
Simon Millar
Simon Millar on 02 May 2019
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Simon Yarrell
Simon Yarrell on 29 Apr 2019
Well done team on a great effort with the fund Raising
$100
Aaron Fitzsimons
Aaron Fitzsimons on 26 Apr 2019
$100
Katie and Jason Elliott
Katie and Jason Elliott on 23 Apr 2019
$100

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This campaign started on 17 Feb 2019 and ended on 17 May 2019.