Why Kids on Bikes ?

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Why Kids on Bikes ?

• If NO ACTION is taken,
• and the current trend continues,
• the 31 of overweight/obese
• children in NZ at the moment
• will continue to escalate.

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Our Mission

• To promote the health and well being of children
  in New Zealand specifically from target groups
  and encourage these children to exercise
  regularly and safely through the provision of
  bicycles, helmets and safety equipment for fun
  exercise as part of their daily routine

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HOW IT WORKS

• The Trustees of the Kids On Bikes
  Charitable Trust (KOB Trustees),
  offer selected Intermediate Schools the
  opportunity to adopt this Program designed for
  a specific target group of Kids.

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HOW IT WORKS

• Having obtained endorsement from its Teachers
  and Board, and the permission from the kids
  parent(s), guardian(s) and/or caregiver(s), the
  school offers KOBs program to the students
  in the target group

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HOW IT WORKS

• The KOB Trustees raise funds from central/
• local government, corporations, businesses and
• the wider community to purchase and supply
• suitable new bikes and ancillary safety/
• security equipment such as helmets, safety
• jackets, safety lights, bike locks/ chains
• to the school.
• All this equipment becomes the property
• of the school.

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HOW IT WORKS

• The School then loans the equipment to the
  student under a KOB Contract
• (Its purpose is to help the child learn to be
  responsible for property in his/her care and to
  honour a contract).

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HOW IT WORKS

• The bike supplier, assisted by
• volunteer adult KOB cyclists,
• adjusts bikes and helmets etc.
• to fit each selected child

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HOW IT WORKS

• The NZ Police train the selected students
• in Cycle Road Safety. Upon passing this
• training, the child is awarded a
• Probationary Cycle License which, after
• a few weeks of riding to school is
• converted into a Full License

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HOW IT WORKS

• To raise cycling, fitness, and
• nutrition awareness for all kids,
• the school may choose to make the
• Program Launch a whole day event
• encouraging all kids who ride bikes
• to participate.

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HOW IT WORKS

• The children have full use of the equipment
  provided they adhere to their contracts.

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HOW IT WORKS

• A child who has taken full advantage
• of the program during his/ her two years
• at intermediate school can achieve
• ownership of the bike and equipment
• through the accumulation of Bike Dollars,
• which are awarded to those that fulfil
• their KOB Contract commitments.

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HOW IT WORKS

• KOB Trustees require that each school
  regularly monitors the performance of kids
  selected for the program based on a set of
  benchmark criteria decided mutually between
  KOB Trustees and the school.

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HOW IT WORKS

• The monitoring criteria could include
• (i) a weigh-in at the beginning of the program
  and regularly thereafter,
• (ii) attitude in class,
• (iii) any improvement in class room work, and
• (iv) any improvement in out-of-class behaviour
  etc.

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HOW IT WORKS

• The selected kids would also be required to
  complete feedback forms at the end of the
  program with the schools forwarding this,
  together with its own monitoring results, onto
  KOB Trustees.

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HOW IT WORKS

• Using funds raised, KOB Trustees will
• continue to sustain each school program
• by supplying new replacement equipment
• as kids complete the two year program
• and achieve full ownership as a result of
• Bike Dollars earned.

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OUR PROGRAM At Peachgrove Intermediate School,
Hamilton, April 2006

• Sarah Ulmer, Olympic Gold Medal
  Cyclist, together with other special
  launch guests Matthew Cooper, Martin
  Gallagher, and Hamilton City Councillor,
  Daphne Bell, attended the KOB Launch and
  Cycle Activities Day
• 20 children in the target group from the school
  received an Avanti bike, helmet, safety gear and
  lock/ chain and signed a KOB Contract.

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OUR PROGRAM At Peachgrove Intermediate School,
Hamilton, April 2006

• The school treated the KOB Launch Day as
  a special full day event that included
  activities for all kids who ride bikes to
  its school

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OUR PROGRAM At Peachgrove Intermediate School,
Hamilton, April 2006

• The NZ Police provided bicycle road
  safety training both in the classroom
  and in practice on Hamilton roads near
  Peachgrove Intermediate School.

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OUR PROGRAM At Peachgrove Intermediate School,
Hamilton, April 2006

• One Year On
• The program has received very positive
  feedback from the targeted children !

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IMPACT

• The KOB Program fits in well with school
  initiatives regarding
• healthier tuck shop foods, equipment and
  programs being
• provided to encourage all kids to exercise and
  live healthier
• life styles
• As Kids On Bikes grows it should help popularize
  cycling
• for kids again, resulting in more kids getting
  this regular
• outdoor exercise

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IMPACT

• For those schools undertaking the program,
• the NZ Police training helps keep all children
• who ride bikes to school, safer
• As more children take up cycling to/ from school
  
• again, traffic congestion around the selected
• schools should reduce

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• Empower Kids!