Starting your own cycling school

Starting up your own cycling school is more than just planning a few lessons. It requires preparation, cooperation and a vision.

This page will help you get started: whether you work at a municipality, a community organisation or a school - this checklist will give you a clear overview of all the building blocks for a successful start-up.

Checklist Start-up

Checklist

Ask yourself the right questions before you really get into it.

Action plan

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To keep your preparation and planning on track, and make sure you don't overlook anything, you can use our Action Plan.

Class schedule

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Once your preparations become more concrete, you can draw up a class schedule. Use our sample timetable as a starting point.

Pricing

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Before you make your classes known to your target audience, think about pricing.

Flyer Recruiting Participants

Example

Use this example and create your own recruiting flyer to attract participants to your classes.

Information letter Participants

Example

Use this example and create your own clear letter to inform participants about the lessons.

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Manual

Publishing Cycling Lessons on defietschool.be - a step-by-step guide for organisers and teachers

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Teach cycling

From keeping balance to giving way: a cycling lesson covers all kinds of aspects. Learn how to give successful cycling lessons here.

Volunteers

Volunteers make your cycling initiative run. How do you recruit them? How do you welcome and frame them? And what tasks can they all take on? You will find out here.

Cycling together

After the lesson series, build a buddy collaboration and create a community of novice cyclists who help each other. Because cycling together is fun.

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