Mountain Bike Club

About

This is an independent alternative provider of education (IAP), which is part of the West Sussex County Council (WSCC) Dynamic Purchasing System for schools to commission services. Find out more at Independent Alternative Provision.

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We are an outdoor, sports and mountain biking focussed IAP provider established in 2022. We utilise the unique and powerful benefits of mountain biking and the great outdoors. We benefit from our beautiful surroundings so we can support young people who face significant barriers in traditional educational settings.

What we do

• We do not only offer mountain biking sessions, we offer a wide variety of activity based sessions to enhance positive relationships through new experiences. We offer days out trying new sports, museum visits and other types of day trips to help find new interests and regulation techniques for difficult behaviours.
• Utilising the outdoors, forests and woodlands, we see that through structured outdoor activities we can provide a foundation for young people to navigate life's challenges, learn essential behaviours, and ultimately overcome the barriers that impede their education.
• We offer other provisions that are not cycling based but more activity and multi sport based. We try to help children and young people find new interests and passions to channel positive energy into, which can then help focus for academic achievement.
• This provision is on offer to all children and young people, for ages from 11 years old upwards, even if they have never previously ridden a bike. We provide a supportive, encouraging and low demand setting to help build confidence, trust and balanced session. Our natural outdoor setting is incredibly successful for a calm and low demand session to help children and young people find ways to regulate and manage their behaviours, focus and emotions.
• Provision details: One to one sessions, group sessions up to 4 with 2 instructors, full day sessions only (9am to 3pm) lunch included, all travel with pick up from a variety of pre agreed locations including residential homes is provided within the session time.

Age range

10-25

Wheelchair accessible

No

Free to use

No

Requires application

Yes

Our users say

"You are an absolute asset both to……and to young people nationally. Whilst …..has the fortune of coming from a loving safe home that not all young people have, he would not have been in the position he was to sit his exams and do so well without your dedication and unwavering support over the last 18 months to get him to the place he is in today. So a BIG THANK YOU, from …..and I who will never be able to express our appreciation to you enough."

" 'A' had been out of education for over 1 year when starting with us. This had been down to much disruption from being relocated time after time due to threat. We at first struggled for 'A' to engage but after 3 weeks of consistently turning up we had finally managed to get 'A' to engage in conversation and by the end of this first half term we managed to get out for a cycle around their locality. When we started the next half term 'A' we eager to engage in sessions allowing us to go further afield and try more activities. By the end of this term we had managed to get 'A' back into a school placement. It was important for 'A' to see that outsides could be trusted and would remain consistent, this allowed them to trust those outside the family. We believe in consistency, trust and honesty as it helps to build rapport with young people.”