VC Venta Go-Ride - Important Updates for 2025
We're delighted to announce our Go-Ride coaching programme will be moving to a new venue at IBM Hursley for 2025! This is an excellent location for cycling activities offering lots of space and a safe environment for our young riders. We're incredibly grateful to IBM for supporting us with this move, and very excited to get started at the new venue.
Additionally:
- Sessions will run from 3pm to 4pm (earlier than before). This earlier time allows us access to toilet facilities at the onsite Hursley Sports and Social Club
- Due to coach availability, we can only run three groups for the spring series.
- To ensure we remain welcome guests at IBM Hursley and are able to continue using the site for Go-Ride coaching, you will be required to accept both IBM Hursley Access Terms and our Go-Ride Declaration when making a booking.
Finally...We Need Your Help!
We rely on volunteers to run Go-Ride. In its simplest form, this can just be parents and guardians lending a hand to help sessions run smoothly. However, we also need qualified coaches to run the sessions, and due to a few people who have generously given their time over a number of years recently having stepped away, we are short on numbers.
We need more coaches to be able to continue running Go-Ride. Ideal candidates will be keen cyclists, but you don't need to have raced or have ridden regularly with a club; a passion and energy for passing on the love of cycling is far more important.
The club covers all course costs, and the newly launched British Cycling coaching framework makes it easier to get started with most training being online.
If you're keen to get involved, or would just like to find out more, please get in touch! Easiest way is to email me at [email protected] and we can arrange a time to chat.
Andy
VC Venta Go-Ride Lead
Welcome to Go-Ride!
Go-Ride is British Cycling’s development programme for young people and provides a fun and safe way to introduce young riders, aged 6 to 16 years, to the world of cycle sport. To learn more, click here. (Link will open in a new tab or window.)
The spring series of Go-Ride will commence on Sunday 27 April 2025 and run for five consecutive weekends - see dates below.
Each session runs 3pm to 4pm at IBM Hursley. (Access ONLY via the south entrance - see pin on map - and park in the south car park. Coaching takes place in the east car park.)
- Session #1 – Sunday 27 April 2025
- Session #2 – Sunday 4 May 2025
- Session #3 – Sunday 11 May 2025
- Session #4 – Sunday 18 May 2025
- Session #5 – Sunday 25 May 2025
All bookings for Go-Ride are subject to agreement to the Go-Ride Declaration and IBM Hursley Access Terms. By booking a Go-Ride place you are accepting these terms.