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Grassroots Mountainbikers

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £0.0K

  • Spending

    £0.0K

  • Charity no. 109077
  • Date registered. 31/08/2022

Public benefits

- Environmentally sustainable and safe mountain bike trails available and accessible for everyone to ride in safety; - Sustainable trails that complement and are sympathetic to the environment; - The public will have opportunities to engage in physical activities which will improve their health and wellbeing; - Local communities will have an

opportunity to safely enjoy the healthy sporting activity of cycling off-road which in turn will enhance their mental and physical well being, Sustainable trail development will be identified through better bio diversity with local forests. Better health and well being can be identified using key indicators or health in the community measured prior to trail development and then again after trails have been built and used by communities. Better visual aesthetics of local forests with clearly defined trails properly sign posted for all users. None. All mountain bike clubs and individual mountain bikers throughout Northern Ireland. The public, local community groups and charity members. Off road cyclists. No, the benefits will be freely available to everyone,

What your organisation does

1. We will work in partnership with statutory central government Departments such as the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and their Forestry Division plus the Department for Communities to secure access for mountainbikers to government owned forests. 2. We will work with local Government Councils to develop access and

build quality mountain bike trails for the use of all of the community. 3. We will promote the rights of mountain bikers to pursue their sport and recreational cycling off road with hinderance. 4. We will lobby central government, local government and private landowners to all natural trails on their land through formal agreements with local mountain bike clubs. 5. We will build capacity and expertise in sustainable trail building and strive to ensure that good practice is followed amongst local mountain bike clubs. 6. We will represent local mountain bikers so that they can have confidence when seeking access and development opportunities,

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of amateur sport
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • Other charitable purposes

Who the charity helps

  • Community safety/crime prevention
  • General public
  • Men
  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Parents
  • Physical disabilities
  • Unemployed/low income
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Environment/sustainable development/conservation
  • General charitable purposes
  • Sport/recreation
  • Volunteer development

Charitable purposes

The purposes of the charity are: a) To promote the amateur sport of mountain biking primarily but not exclusively throughout Northern Ireland as an important and exciting outdoor activity that offers enhanced health and wellbeing, physical and social benefits through active participation and engagement in the activity of sustainable trail building and riding a mountain bike on natural trails; b) To provide outdoor physical and mental exertion by through the use of sustainable practices for the maintenance and management of natural mountain bike trails for suitable for all abilities throughout Northern Ireland by: I. Working in joint partnership with landowners to organise volunteer trail building and trail maintenance work; II. Offering the wider community coaching and development opportunities in mountain biking; and III. Promoting the mental and physical benefits of mountain biking within the local community and developing partnerships with other statutory and non statutory and community based organisations.

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List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland

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