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Does your company care about staff health and well-being, and your overall impact on the world?

Then it’s great to see you here. WELCOME to Smile Cycling!

Like many other UK businesses, you’ve probably thought about your carbon footprint. Perhaps frequently!

Maybe you’re striving to attain set targets, and/or seeking ways of reducing GHG emissions… but finding that some integral aspects of your activity are really hard to decarbonise.

Smile Cycling applauds endeavours to improve process efficiency, switch to planet-friendly practices, support high-quality nature-based solutions, and invest in changes that genuinely reduce emissions.

Staff Travel

Staff travel can offer real scope for cutting emissions. If more people choose public or active transport rather than driving to work, those avoided emissions represent a saving for your company! While also:

💚 improving your colleagues’ health, fitness and well-being,

💚 saving them money on fuel,

💚 improving air quality thanks to fewer cars,

💚 reducing traffic congestion, and

💚 saving everyone a parking headache!

To help your staff gain cycling confidence that might empower them to plump for a pedal-powered commute, Smile Cycling trains groups at a range of levels:

Level 1: basic bike handling and control (so they can stay on, stay vigilant and stay in calm control, OFF-ROAD),

Level 2: simple on-road manoeuvres, junctions etc., and essential road-sharing skills,

Level 3: urban jungle – noisy town centre at rush hour!

Staff cycle training info

As an example, Smile Cycling could train:

- 6 people to level 2 in 9 hours/1.5 days (guide price TBC), and to level 3 in 13 hours/2 days (guide price TBC)

- 12 people to level 2 in 15 hours/2 days (guide price TBC), and to level 3 in 23 hours/3 days (guide price TBC)

Cost = £XX per person to level 2 and approx. XX hours of their time.

Cost = £XX per person to level 3 and approx. XX hours of their time.

Prices include:

✅ A pre-session interactive video call/presentation for the whole group to be trained (about 1.5 hours),

✅ The in-person delivery hours for your chosen level of teaching (Level 1, 2, potentially 3),

✅ Individual and company-level calculation of your company’s “before and after” carbon footprint associated with staff travel,

✅ Monitoring of overall progress (how many journeys were ACTUALLY cycled?),

✅ Individual check-in with participants to answer any questions or help overcome difficulties.

What’s the OUTCOME for your company?

- Happier, fitter staff, who carry that boosted health and confidence into their home contexts, inspiring the people around them,

- Fewer car commutes, meaning lower carbon emissions… and Smile Cycling can calculate the carbon saving for you!

To encourage your staff to cycle, please consider some practical ways to help:

✅ Storage for bikes – are there sufficient cycle hoops to lock bikes to? Near the door? Ideally covered, to protect cycles in poor weather?

✅ Can your employees shower at work if they’ve had a strenuous cycle in?

✅ Can wet clothes be hung somewhere safe where they’ll dry during the day?

✅ If your company offers the Cycle to Work scheme, might bike recipients benefit from an initial cycling lesson?