Cycle Access Fund FAQs - Strand 2: Shared Use
Please ensure you have read the Cycle Access Fund General FAQs and Bike Buying FAQs as information is not repeated here.
Use the questions below to find out who can apply, how the funding works, and what’s expected from applicants and bike users.
- What is Strand 2: Shared Use?
- Can we charge a fee for people to use the bikes?
- What makes a good Shared Use application?
- What is required from the delivery partner for Shared Use funding?
- What is required from the users of Shared Use bikes?
1. What is Strand 2: Shared Use?
This strand provides grants to organisations to support access to Shared Use cycles. We know that owning a cycle will not be the best option for everyone and there are different models of shared bike access that can provide sustainable and cost-effective mobility for people who wouldn’t otherwise have access to cycling.
The Shared Use strand provides capital grants to a range of organisations to purchase cycles and equipment for a range of shared use models including; loan, subscription, hire, bike libraries, pool bikes, or bike share schemes.
If you are interested in applying for funding to purchase bikes for specific individuals in your community, please see Strand 1: Individual Ownership.
2. Can we charge a fee for people to use the bikes?
Yes. But any profits should be used to support the running of your Shared Use project.
3. What makes a good Shared Use application?
We expect you to demonstrate feasibility in your application – you should be able to show:
- Why a particular model for your Shared Use scheme
- Why the specific bikes will meet a need in your community
- That you have considered the logistics of storing and maintaining the cycles you propose to purchase
- A convincing plan for managing and monitoring the use of the shared bikes
4. What is required from the delivery partner for Shared Use funding?
Delivery partners are required to:
- Complete the online monitoring form when bikes are purchased/received with details about the bike, supplier and when received
- Complete a monitoring form each month to report the number of uses their fleet of Shared Use bikes has
- Ensure that all users of Shared Use bikes share their email address and post code
- Complete a Partner Survey which will be sent from our Monitoring and Evaluation team
Please note: Failure to complete these monitoring requirements may result in Cycling UK recouping some or all of the allocated grant funding from the delivery partner.
5. What is required from the users of Shared Use bikes?
We require you, as the delivery partner, to provide us with email addresses and postcodes for everyone who uses the cycles bought through this fund.
