Cycling4SEEd – an update

With great excitement and positive feedback from the recent launch of Cycling4SEEd many of you may well have heard that Marika and Michael from SEEd will be cycling the entire country! They are pedaling over 1000 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats (February 29th to July 22nd 2012) to visit 80 primary and secondary schools capturing their sustainability stories along the way.

In these schools they are running FREE student filmmaking sessions, school assemblies, Head Teacher and Staff support sessions on education for sustainable development, linking schools and projects together as they travel up the country. Each week they shall cycle to a new community and stay for a week to capture what has been happening in schools and in their surrounding community. If you would like them to come to your school or project then please look at the Route and Schedule below to see when they will be near you. If you are not on the planned route but are eager to get involved please contact them and they will do their best to get to you!

Please get in touch soon as places are filling up and we want you to be involved to share your sustainability story with everyone! If you know of any community or sustainability events/projects or museums and galleries that we could visit please also get in touch. Additionally, if you have any places to stay for two cyclists please drop us a line!

SEEd is uniquely positioned to show the amazing breadth of sustainability in education across the UK and we need your help and support to capture this and celebrate all the great work!

Route and schedule

  • Week 1: 29th Feb - 3rd March 51.1 miles (Lands End: Based in Penzance - Newquay)
  • Weeks 2: 5th - 9th March 49.8 miles. (Based in Newquay- Launceston.)
  • Week 3: 12th -16th March 132 miles. (Based in Launceston/Tiverton- Chepstow.)
  • Week 4: 19th - 23rd March 83.7 miles. (Basedin Chepstow - Sandwell)
  • Week 5: 26th - 31st March 101 miles. (Based in Sandwell - Todmorden)
  • Week 6 & 7: Easter break 2nd - 15th April. Cycle direct to Todmorden (Hebden Bridge)
  • Week 8:  16th - 20th April 75.7 miles (Based in Hebden Bridge- Kirkby Stephen.)
  • Week 9:  23rd -27th April 45.2 miles (Based in Kirkby Stephen- Carlisle.)
  • Week 10: 30th of April - 4th May 67.4 miles (Based in Carlisle- Innerleithen)
  • Week 11: 7th - 11th May 33.2 miles (Based in Innerleithen– Edinburgh)
  • Week 12: 14th -18th May 48.1 miles (Based in Edinburgh- Perth.)
  • Week 13: 21st -25th May 50.9 miles (Based in Perth- Braemar.)
  • Week 14: 28th of May -1st June 46.6 miles (Based in Braemar- Grantown-On-Spey)
  • Week 15: Break. 4th June - 8th June                                                                     
  • Week 16: 11th - 15th June 38.7 miles (Based in Grantown-On-Spey- Inverness.)
  • Week 17:18th - 22nd June 71 miles (Based in Inverness - Lairg.)
  • Week 18: 25th-29th June 45.3 miles (Based in Lairg- Bettyhill.)
  • Week 19: 2nd - 4th July 50.3 miles (Based in Betty Hill- Thurso - John O’ Groats!!!)
  • Travel to: Thirsk
  • Week 20: 9th -13th July 30 Miles (Based in Ripon- York)
  • Week 21: 16th - 20th July 77.9 Miles (Based in York - Lincoln) Distance from Lincoln to London - 149 miles

This project has been completely voluntary starting in August 2011. Cycling4SEEd aim to not use new materials in this project with even our bikes being ‘upcycled’ from old parts. If you can donate any cycling equipment or money towards our project to make it shinier and more visible then please email us directly and we will say a big ’Thank You’ on our website.

The information gathered from the schools, teachers and young people Cycling4SEEd meet will feed directly into the collaborative national Sustainable Curriculum Projectsteered by SEEd’s CEO, Ann Finlayson, designed to be running in schools by 2013. For more information please visit SEEd’s website: www.se-ed.org.uk

If you know of any interesting events happening in March to June 2012 Cycling4SEEd should be visiting please contact Michael@se-ed.org.ukor Marika@se-ed.org.uksending further information including a key personal contact for further correspondences.

For more information on the cycling4seed please visit www.se-ed.co.uk/cycling4seed.